It's about impossible to explain, the IRS does a horrible job in Pub 546, and the accountants make it worse by trying to explain it to you like...
No, heck no. I don't know how to test anything. I just like betting on anything that happens more often than not. Especially at even or better...
I forget where I read it. Some guy went back and figured the average daily range for SP. Then he found out that when SP exceeds it's average daily...
well now, you have to knock off .25 for a realistic range for the day. How is es illliquid? As long as the spread is one tick, there's the bid,...
yeah, it's at a 3 pt premium as we speak after a very fishy close on Fri and today being sort of holiday kind of. You gotta wonder, who's gonna...
thanks, nkhoi, oh yes, that's very nice. You would think I could find it somewhere on S&P's site. I suppose it's there, but they don't want me to...
Please tell me the website to check S&P closing cash price for some date in the past.
the way I see it, you only have two choices, love or fear. Greed and fear are the same thing. Now how this applies to trading I haven't yet...
at any rate Buy stop 902 Sell stop 898 use those as your entry and 4 pt stop then sell 910/ buy 892 OCA But you'll still have a stop...
yeah,you can set all that up. Just use OCO (or I think IB calls them OCA) "One Cancels the Other" But better, you should test just going long...
I must be missing something complicated. If you're a system trader, you just go back and check longest streak, or check how many 6 streaks went on...
hoodo, most mm talk is based on margin trading. And slim futures margin at that. I see no point in holding back on Rydex, (if they are margined at...
2 books, one very good, Gallacher "Winner Take All" goes into the difference between 3 trades at 2% risk and one trade at 6%risk. Another one,...
The most interesting one is, you take the average daily range. Say for a year or more. Then the idea is you take your profit a fixed percentage...
good topic for a thread. Anyone know of a good online bank? I had bank that was great. Was 2000 miles away and tried to use my atm card and it...
if you're just starting out, I would highly recommend you join www.tradersbrain.com. Because beginner books are not ones you will want to read...
everybody is in agreement that the market is going to 1100. The problem is half of them think it must first go down.
If you've been screwing up a lot with small size, it helps to make it all back with one big trade, and you gotta have size to do it, so do it...
kserra, All I trade is es. I switched to IB about a year ago. That is a good place for a low volume (less than 50 rt's per day) trader. If you...
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