I like trading. Who wants to try something new?

ironchef · Dec 6, 2024

toucan said:
Back when i traded stocks i only used market orders.... minimal slippage for liquid stocks
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Thanks.

It is true.

Is it also true that liquid stocks have more randomness?

ironchef · Dec 7, 2024

Wide Tailz said:
Risk management is much easier when the spread is tiny, and the big buyerz of the mega cap stox are typically not "sophisticated traders", you know, reading price action and waiting for levels before doing anything. Little stocks can be easily manipulated to get the redditers to try a short squeeze, which only fuels their demise when they finish spending their allowances.
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But I read big buyers nowadays hide their buy/sell very well. I looked at AAPL PA during the time BRK was buying big time and couldn't detect any trends?

long · Dec 7, 2024

garachen said:
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been on here. But I ate too much and can’t sleep so I had a crazy idea.

Short intro. I’ve traded for most of my career. Full time since 2006. I certainly don’t know everything - and almost nothing about equities - but I’ve found most markets have idiosyncrasies that can be exploited.

What I’ve found a bit disheartening is that, like everyone else, I mostly find employees through a combination of headhunters and credential-providing institutions which seems at odds with some personality characteristics that are desirable as a trader and striving for a more pure meritocracy.

I’ve been researching a new market lately that’s very orthogonal to anything else we do. I’m curious if anyone wants to help me out at these initial stages. I know there’s small money at no risk. And huge money at huge risk. I need to ascertain if I can get medium money at very low risk.

Feel free to ask any questions. I’ve been spending 6-8 hours a day on this for the last few weeks. I’ve submitted the paperwork to trade these markets and should be ready to go in 1-2 months. Just need to know python and excel and be able to match my speed.
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Why can’t you divulge which market you’re interested in?

garachen · Dec 7, 2024

long said:
Why can’t you divulge which market you’re interested in?
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I could. But then I’d be spending time answering curiosity questions about it instead of getting what I want.

Wide Tailz · Dec 7, 2024

ironchef said:
Are you telling me liquid stocks are less random?
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I don't think like that. I just look for correlationz and my equity curve. That's like quant language.

Wide Tailz · Dec 7, 2024

ironchef said:
But I read big buyers nowadays hide their buy/sell very well. I looked at AAPL PA during the time BRK was buying big time and couldn't detect any trends?
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Zoom out, to weekly barz

newwurldmn · Dec 7, 2024

garachen said:
I could. But then I’d be spending time answering curiosity questions about it instead of getting what I want.
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We all know it’s Indian options.

garachen · Dec 7, 2024

newwurldmn said:
We all know it’s Indian options.
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Thailand...

Actually. In all seriousness that is a good trade.

newwurldmn · Dec 7, 2024

garachen said:
Thailand...

Actually. In all seriousness that is a good trade.
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The India one? Yeah that’s what I heard.

toucan · Dec 7, 2024

garachen said:
For the record. Ive never traded illiquid stocks or stocks at all. I trade futures.
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IanMacQuaide and i met with you at pete's coffee in alamo around the end of november 2012 and discussed how you traded at the time.... we are old, but we have the same recollection of our conversation.
cheers
toucan