Recent Content by rickf

  1. Algo traders: What risk management are you using to manage crisis like Flash Crash

    If you refer to the 2010 Flash Crash, while my memory is kind of hazy from that day, I suspect lots of folks tried dumping at a percentage loss...
    Post by: rickf, Jul 23, 2022 in forum: Automated Trading

  2. Bear thesis looks fkd for tomorrow

    With the Fed's magic wand back in the toolchest, IMO there's not much funny-money helicopter hopium to keep markets aloft as it has over the past...
    Post by: rickf, May 22, 2022 in forum: Trading

  3. Bear thesis looks fkd for tomorrow

    Good luck Ken....I feel your pain! Would you be able to offset that potential loss via being long some futures tonight? FWIW saying, one thing i...
    Post by: rickf, May 22, 2022 in forum: Trading

  4. Close shave with Anchor protocol. My thoughts on the TerraLuna ecosystem crash

    Great writeup! I daresay anything with insane yields like Anchor, even if it was called a 'stablecoin', was an unsustainable fantasy and very few...
    Post by: rickf, May 15, 2022 in forum: Crypto Assets

  5. How To Manipulate Any Crypto

    Wanna manipulate crypto? That's easy ... just get a certain ego-centric tech bro to tweet about it, even as a joke.
    Post by: rickf, May 2, 2022 in forum: Crypto Assets

  6. Charlie Munger says the Robinhood trading app is justly ‘unraveling’ for ‘disgusting’ practices

    "But its holdings are so disruptive and transformative! You just need to be a little patient...." /sarc
    Post by: rickf, May 1, 2022 in forum: Retail Brokers

  7. Charlie Munger says the Robinhood trading app is justly ‘unraveling’ for ‘disgusting’ practices

    "XYZ is down 45% over the past year but it's an excellent disruptor and will be in the pole position over the next few years, so it's an easy buy...
    Post by: rickf, May 1, 2022 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. insurance stonks....

    I just think this .... person simply likes saying 'stonks' as often as possible. Because serious investors talk that way, right? smh.
    Post by: rickf, Apr 3, 2022 in forum: Stocks

  9. pharmaceutical stonks

    LOL. Sorry, but it's hard to take seriously the recommendations or analysis of anyone using fanboi jargon from r/WSB in serious long-standing...
    Post by: rickf, Mar 18, 2022 in forum: Stocks

  10. Do you have a No Go list of stocks

    No China stocks....I don't trust them, their government, or financial/economic data from there. Since I rarely 'trade' anymore, no...
    Post by: rickf, Mar 5, 2022 in forum: Trading

  11. Crypto Critic Charlie Munger Sides with China

    Cue the Simpsons meme of "Old Man Yells At Cloud"...... he's indeed a dinosaur and representative of the Wall Street phrase "past performance not...
    Post by: rickf, Dec 3, 2021 in forum: Crypto Assets

  12. I have made a stupid move from ThinkorSwim to Schwab (StreetSmart)

    StreetSmart is beyond dogsh*t. It reminds me of the browser-based 'active' client from OptionsXpress years ago, whicih is what led me to...
    Post by: rickf, Jun 21, 2021 in forum: Order Execution

  13. Think or Swim Issues today? 8/17/20

    Functional but still borked in places as of the NY open. 1/3 of my account is already moved out. [IMG]
    Post by: rickf, Aug 19, 2020 in forum: Retail Brokers

  14. Think or Swim Issues today? 8/17/20

    Spoke to my acct rep at TD, who I do like. Told them I was planning to move my acct but b/c this person was so good to me over the years (I...
    Post by: rickf, Aug 18, 2020 in forum: Retail Brokers

  15. Think or Swim Issues today? 8/17/20

    I'm out. Don't have time now, but will be opening with Schwab on Thursday. Hopefully that'll get me out of the current mess, and not get me...
    Post by: rickf, Aug 18, 2020 in forum: Retail Brokers