Recent content by sealion33

Exactly. I noticed for example 15:30 move in ES happens quite often. So you just enter ahead of it and take small hit if it doesn't happen or 1% pump like today.

The post is way too long for average ETer to read...

100 year old edge which still works today: front running big customer orders

In that case let me explain how that usually works. There are two margins Initial (in your example $500) and Maintenance (always lower than initial) for example $400. When you buy you need to post $500 in margin and you will not get margin call until you have $400. In case of 4 contracts you...

I was concerned about that too. It looks more like gambling.

For average investor options are the first choice and futures are second.

I agree that you should look at revenues first. Earnings numbers are very easily can be manipulated while revenues are much harder for companies to tweak.

I guess you are exception to the rule. :)

Does anybody did any research on trading systems where you base your entry on time only expecting a move to start completely disregarding price action. Something like in this blog post? http://bowgett.com/Blog/post/why-it-is-enough-to-know-when-eur-is-going-to-move I would like to do a little...

Actually I think the worst thing for any new trader would be start making money right away and then started thinking "Oh, this is easy!".

Good stuff

if (X and Y and Z) { Buy(100, "LNKD", 80.00); } else { StartProcess("solitaire.exe"); }

2-3% lets me have 30-40 positions in my portfolio to better manage risk in case of signle trade going wrong way and hurting performance of my account.

I usually allocate 2-3% for one stock.