ES margin was as high as ~37k a few days ago, this means that it was only offering a 3.4x leverage on ~125k notional, its pretty retarded if we...
Exactly, its like IB wants to force liquidate your positions with these ridiculous margin hikes.
They have actually increased it further, I've decided to move to another broker, probably lightspeed, this is the final straw for me.
IB offers 1:4 margin for a large number of single stocks and many of them have been making 20+% intraday moves recently, the implied volatility is...
Yea of course they could but that'd be retarded and they'd lose all their customers since the notional value of one ES contract is only ~130k, 1m...
Not sure what you meant by that but nobody is supposed to know whats going to happen in the next hour, we'd all be billionaires if there was some...
You can get more leverage with SPY now, IB has gone nuts.
This wont be a bear market for 10yrs unless no vaccine/cure is found in the next decade.
Yea the margin hikes are getting ridiculous now. ES is up to 27k, effectively reducing leverage to slightly over 4x, CL is over 10k, so slightly...
Believe it or not, its my best week ever. Made as much as I did in 1 week what usually takes me a year.
Finally got some air out of the bubble.
Probably IB's crappy servers crapping up again, I was being forced logged out at 930est/1600est daily 2 weeks ago and my orders/cancellations were...
Exactly. Only about a year remains before elections, Trump is certain to lose if the economy tanks so there is absolutely zero incentive for China...
Well then you will have to find some way to cut your expenses if you want to grow your account faster, trading a bigger size relative to your...
How is your account still in the low 100ks after 6 years if you are already up 130k ytd? Have your been withdrawing all your profits or have you...
Of course it wouldn't make a difference if you are a trading god who can buy the troughs every single time, but this isn't what the data set is...
Gap fills shouldn't change the conclusion of this data set. If the S&P gaps higher by 50pts, fills and ends the day 60pts higher, the actual gain...
This would make sense since investors have essentially been compensated for holding risk (overnight), you are always going to underperform the...
I think you are scalping too heavily, $0.40 on a $350 stock is nothing, heck the spread is sometimes greater than that (after factoring in HFT...
Yeah life is uncertain and stressful, I'm not arguing that a day job makes all of that go away. What I'm saying is that trading/running a small...
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