I could have sworn he used a martingale system. In his third post on his journal thread is this: Maybe I was misinterpreting his strategy, or...
Sorry, I was actually referring to: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/finder/matcher.asp It is a lot more powerful than the first link I...
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/finder/customstocks.asp You could fill in one line of criteria to do your scan: Avg. Daily Vol. Last...
When you feel angry, turn off your computers for the day. Walk away from the market til you are in the proper mindset to trade. If you had had...
So, the 15 minute chart will fulfill all my dreams?
In your experience, is it more important to key off price movements out of whack with news (i.e., good news = selloff, bad news = rally). Suppose...
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/tradingInfo/shortableStocks.html Click on US Shortable Stocks. Type in RIMM - none to borrow.
Do you use stops? Hard stops? Time stops? What happens on days of reckoning when you keep on averaging down into your position? Or have you...
So do you use hard stops? Do you use time stops? How often do you get stopped out for a big loss that just keeps on going and going?
As a followup, when I made my MTM election for securities trading, I specifically referenced 475f(1). No mention of 475f(2). Therefore, I have...
You have to be a full time trader to elect MTM. But if you are a full time trader you don't have to elect MTM. You can elect it for securities...
This is correct. You would have two businesses I believe. One in securities trading. One in commodities trading. The elections are distinct.
What have you done this time, Mr. Gilzow?
I found the thread on Yahoo and the conclusion was this: So apparently this person was arguing with IB about an accounting discrepancy of 70...
Was there any point in the day that you realized that you were breaking your own rules? If you did notice, then you should have exited all...
This is funny stuff - I wouldn't want a customer who was busting my balls over 70 cents.
If that's a goal of yours, you can do that today with a little help from MasterCard.
If this is true, seems like nothing should be busted. It should be considered normal electronic matching behavior. Doesn't Globex only allow...
What if they bought back QQQ, SPY, DIA just to breakeven or limit their losses? Hopefully there is some financial penalty to these fat finger...
No, they stand. As theorized earlier, the fat fingers firm, knowing their own mistake, would be free to scoop up as much dia, spy, and qqq as...
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