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  1. How do YOU decide where to place YOUR Stop?

    The advice you got was very good. The spread at opening / closing of the market or any other low liquidity time gets huge and it will certainly...
    Post by: andrew black, Apr 1, 2019 in forum: Trading

  2. Golden cross on SP500 tomorow?

    The distance between 50MA and 200MA on SP500 is only 8.75 points tonight. Most likely they are going to cross each other tomorrow.
    Thread by: andrew black, Mar 27, 2019, 5 replies, in forum: Trading

  3. Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    It is securities gross position value, end of day balance. So, if you closed all your positions every single day of the tax year, the maximum...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 18, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  4. Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    It is the value of the securities you held, any day during the year - securities gross position value end of day balance. As an example, if any...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 18, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  5. Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    If the cost of all specified foreign property held at anytime during the year was $250k or more, you are required to complete part B - no...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 18, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  6. Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    Simplified reporting means you only fill Part A and you only provide two numbers for the entire tax year, with no details - "income from all...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 18, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  7. Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    You can qualify for "simplified reporting method" if your foreign property was less than $250k during the tax year. And you have to report all...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 18, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  8. Important times during a trading day

    Al Brooks has a theory about max or min of the day happening during the first 18 5min bars with 90% probability. Never actually had the time to...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 16, 2019 in forum: Trading

  9. Being both long and short the same security

    Your both statements are intriguing. Would you care to elaborate for us?
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 4, 2019 in forum: Trading

  10. Being both long and short the same security

    Just to clarify my initial post. I also have other securities in acc #1 which I cannot transfer out or liquidate at a reasonable cost for at least...
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 3, 2019 in forum: Trading

  11. Being both long and short the same security

    I know I have this option :D but I would like to avoid it, thank you.
    Post by: andrew black, Mar 3, 2019 in forum: Trading

  12. Being both long and short the same security

    The context is like this: two different brokerage accounts, acc #1 difficult to operate, acc #2 (IB) very flexible I am holding 200 SPY in acc #1...
    Thread by: andrew black, Mar 3, 2019, 14 replies, in forum: Trading

  13. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    Great info. Thanks.
    Post by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019 in forum: Trading

  14. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I found them guys, thank you. Can anyone comment on trading TBills with IB? Cost, spread, slippage? Any other potential issues?
    Post by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019 in forum: Trading

  15. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    You only get 1.9% for the amount above the $10k threshold and 0% for the first $10k. That is why is 1.7% for $100k.
    Post by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019 in forum: Trading

  16. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    How do I buy them? What is the contract identifier / symbol?
    Post by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019 in forum: Trading

  17. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I was not aware that I can buy TBills in the IB account as IB's contract search page does not return anything...
    Post by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019 in forum: Trading

  18. How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I am looking for suggestions about how to get the risk free interest rate on cash sitting idle in my brokerage account (IB). Interested in a short...
    Thread by: andrew black, Feb 23, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: Trading

  19. Conservative Options Trades

    Hi Oldnemesis, I am a bit confused by the way how you calculate the expectation for your trades. In APPL's case, shouldn't be like this:...
    Post by: andrew black, Jan 26, 2015 in forum: Journals
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