I bet someone big got taken out in the bonds this week. Massive spike in the bonds market immediately followed by a big sell off during the worst...
I'm right there with you trading small. I'd place 50 $100 trades over one $5000 trade any day. Gives you more room for error and forces you to...
Those pesky algos
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Ha no way, this trade is dead in the water. I placed this trade on Friday looking for a bounce before we went limit down on Sunday and Monday. I...
trading on russell locked limit down. Heading there with the ES as well
crude opened limit down and trading was halted. Back open for now, dropped 25% which is absolutely massive
True, but theoretically, it wouldn’t be difficult to make it work. If you have a multi million dollar account you just needed to transfer say $10k...
Does anyone have any experience with brokers or the IRS in manipulating gains/losses by trading box spreads in multiple accounts? For example, say...
If it’s a losing trade then it’s a losing trade. There won’t be much you can do to save it without adding significantly more risk to the table....
If it’s a wide butterfly you can roll both of the long legs closer to the short strike (keep them equidistant). If the butterfly is slightly in...
I don’t set a daily profit goal if I’m daytrading. I usually trade the first 4ish hours of the trading day and stop around lunchtime chop. Price...
I look at the market on a week to week basis with the beginning value starting with Friday’s closing price. I base direction on market conditions...
In case you didn't notice, I'm using this thread to post my thoughts and opinions on the overall market conditions on a week to week basis, which...
The CME group publishes this here: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html I closed out the trade for a small...
I just realized I read this wrong. The market is pricing in a 100% chance of a 50 bp cut by march and 70% chance of a 75bp cut. Crazy!
Last week we saw a 7 standard deviation move to the downside in the S&P's. Statistically speaking, that's as close to impossible as we're gonna...
Housing prices could go down but things would need to get a lot worse. Rates are low and heading lower which is favorable for the housing market....
I think the opposite. Anytime I win or lose more money than expected I always sit down and analyze how that happened and focus on the...
Whenever I take a hit like that, it always makes me feel better to compare how much I lost against how much I would have lost had I held onto the...
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