Sad and frightening to know that despite all the self-reported brilliance of our economist-in-chief, he never listened to anyone who bothered to...
Yesterday's bounce had nothing to do with bulls waiting to buy. It was a classic case of short covering. And as in most every case of massive...
My advice from long experience is that you will be better off focusing on total return of your invested dollars, as opposed to dividend income....
You'd better find a good lawyer yourself. You're coming to a public site and posting libelous information accusing a private individual.
Put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand brokerage connections, and one will make a million. Proves nothing, other than the reality of...
If your system profitability is depended on free, or nearly free, commissions, then you don't have a viable system. As regards coding, or jumping...
MSTR will burn you. Don't invest more than you can afford to lose.
One of the biggest risks in trading is OPPORTUNITY LOSS. The time you may waste trying to beat the markets is invaluable. You can't get that...
And it can often be a loss that remains a loss. When you write a put, you're making the assumption that shit isn't going to hit the fan for that...
But the markets will often not conform to your nice little sheet. And when you're short puts, you can easily give up a year's premium earnings in...
I'd suggest that anyone who is tempted to trade VIX derivatives just shoot yourself now and avoid a lot of grief later.
What the hell did he say? I don't know. And the scary thing is, he doesn't either. The man is a world-class chef of word salads.
IF Trump is elected, he'll be coming into a very strong economy with all numbers headed in the right direction. He'll need to tread very...
Some broker platforms let you enter simple buy and sell orders based on price and time, which continually need to be reset. But what you are...
You are deluded, my friend. Reading comments like yours, I am reminded of the story of the frog that was put in hot water, and didn't realize...
Welcome to my ignore list, where you'll join a large group of fools I've collected over the past 20 years.
Your strategy of finding short term entry points on otherwise solid companies can be a valid approach, so long as you can define a small universe...
Put your focus not on what's easy or convenient, but what structure will best protect you legally, in worst-case-scenarios. Imagine the worst...
Because it isn't a perfect world. For example, yesterday I missed what would have been a great trade if I'd used a market order, guaranteeing a...
As regards the actual mechanics of how IB handles fills in paper trading, I don't know because I've never asked. But its a very good question....
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