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Sold! :D

This is what I plan to do, although for intellectual reasons I'd still like to learn 1-2 additional trading strategies beyond my current one. The funds to trade those strategies may come out of my $500k "trading" funds instead of the remaining long-term investment funds. Some of the (needlessly...

Do you have any recommendations? And yes, I'm not going to quit my job until I have a sensible plan that I'm confident will work.

Thanks all. Lots of great advice in here. A few points of clarification: 1) I too would never put more than a very small fraction of my money into a prop firm. The reason I mentioned prop firms was because, if there are any good shops out there who can help me learn some additional strategies...

Hi folks, Long-time lurker, but I haven't posted much. I need some advice from the board's collective wisdom. For the past 5-6 years, I've traded a system I developed on an account size in the low six figures. The system works very well (10-15% returns per year with rather minimal drawdowns)...

First-time poster here. I just got this same notification from IB that they'll be charging me the exposure fee starting Oct 6. I sell naked DOTM futures options in relatively small position sizes (relative to my account size). Based on my current positions (which are rather light because I've...