Recent content by jedwards

Does anyone have any details on this? That seems like a huge deal for TTM, I would never have guessed this would happen. Did John Carter and Hubert have a falling out? It got announced here: http://www.tradethemarkets.com/public/NQ-Got-the-Rip.cfm

I get what you're saying, but the markets have ways of discounting value. Look at companies like Dell, Cisco and MSFT. They have been value traps for a long time. The expectation, based on the stock price, is that AAPL's earnings will fall, and their PE will begin to match their price...

I was long FB 500 shares from $19 to $24. Stupidly sold 1 day before it jumped to $26. Got long with 15 calls at $27 and sold 10 over the last few days. I'll hold this last batch of 5 until expiration, I'm hoping for > $34 after earnings. AAPL I think will get close to filling the gap at...

Thanks for all the helpful answers. Unfortunately, I'm a bit more confused now with all this additional information. When a broker like IB/MF Global goes bankrupt, is the only thing at risk the cash in the account? If I had my stock in securities, or even some sort of security like a CD...

I currently have an IB account, but I'm thinking of consolidating all my accounts (including IRA, etc) into IB because of the cheaper commissions. I would like to understand my risk, given the entire MF Global fiasco. I understand that IB has a huge reserve, bigger than basically everyone...

Any idea why he and TTM broke up? It didn't seem like a mutual breakup from the responses I've seen.

Out of curiosity, do you keep stuff like historical data and backtest your strategies against it? I'm curious to know how well your current strategies would have performed at your nadir a few months ago, if it would have saved you from a bigger loss.

Great week again, neke! What do you think changed? It was pretty dismal the first many months of this year, but the last 5 weeks you've been on fire. Do you have an idea of what changed to spark this? Maybe you can develop a filter that helps you to cut back on your trades when this...

I meant historical backfill thru QT, not thru TWS.

For what it's worth, the historical backfill appears to work from IB.

That's what I'm seeing as well. I am unpatched, and I am connected to IB but I can't backfill any of my charts, but it shows whatever data after I started QT. I switched to my data feed to IQFeed, and I can't backfill any of my charts either. This appears to have just happened over this...

Congrats on the great week! Are you able to find any correlations to the markets that explain your great performance you're having now vs the poorer performance you experience in the recent past? Is it a function of the markets, ie. are they behaving more predictable, or maybe some other factor?

I got to 10 by literally just going for it and being terrified, but trying to keep my emotions in check. With 10 contracts, a move in the opposite direction for me translates usually to about $500-1000 loss which hurts but I can stomach. But if I take the same tactic with 20 contracts...