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Do you have to be a good stock trader to succeed in options trading? Probably no but it would help a great deal. When i see options people describing strategies mentioning that there is no way to tell where the underlying instrument will be in a few months it is just half the story...

Sometimes I give market orders to IB on liquid instruments and I always get a fair fill. Over 10 years I do not remember e v e r being disappointed about an IB fill. Once in a while I even got better fills then what I expected. Electronic trading is quite fair when compared to human...

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The early version of EOD I owned was incredible piece of software but it was slow. I operated it with Yahoo data as I remember. If one clicks on a symbol in TradeStation it will complete a chart with a few studies in a second or so and one can look through a lot of symbols fairly quickly...

I do not know current pricing but I want to comment on the quality of various monitors. I purchased 2 new Samsung 21" monitors three years ago and I had to send them back because of some connectivity issue. As they came with 3yr warranty it was taken care of right away at their expense but...

Just a note on wireless installation: because my brother has fat fingers, for a while he used an external Logitec wireless mouse with his notebook until his unit kept getting infected with a virus. It turns out that the wireless mouse was automatically looking for driver updates and some...

I sense animosity and bitterness in your comment. English is not my native language so I may never learn it perfectly. In the meantime if you focused on what people say instead of the style of their speaking you may learn something. Be happy and prosper, bc

I have never purchased a lottery ticket and I do not gamble because I can not influence the outcome of the enterprise and i am not smart enough to perform well processing everything in my head, like in card counting. I do speculate in Real Estate, Antiques, Fine Art, and instruments in the...

You can't in 2 tries:) BTW, if you were lucky and placed 4 marbles on each side and they balanced you would know the ninth one was the heaviest. bc

Good looks don't help you in trading so at least on that score the video was lame. Ethnic restaurants alter/adulterate their food for what they think the public would like. Directors adulterate truth to serve up to the public an image that they think public would respond to. The OP...

In NYC, as of now, TWS charts are loading properly. bc

For series that are themselves mean reverting like TICK, ADVDECL, Keltner channels and BB's work wonders. bc

The overswing of indicators depending on their nature(how they are constructed and for what purpose)and on the formation of trend structure on a particular time scale may or may not indicate extreme conditions. Price movement is multidimensional on each time scale with its own momentum...

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The rigs in operation count report (the last one was a surprise) is good for a swing sometimes. bc

I would second the recommendations for IB. IB is a truly global broker and they have offices/service centers around the globe including Europe, so if you need to talk to someone it is likely you can reach them in your time zone. Since you don't trade a lot yet commissions may not be a...

Congratulations. Being able to have a distance from trading and the market when needed is an advantage the retail traders have. Cheers, bc

The fist sentence is true for all markets, those factors contribute to an active market :). Prices may very well tend to move randomly but traders entering and exiting the market with urgency (be it technical or simply for business reasons) distort the more or less smooth flow. The prices...

Excellent post. May I just add that not everyone is equally equipped to read the tape (as they used to call trading off price action) just as not everyone is equally equipped to trade based on fundamentals or technicals. Blessed is the trader who sooner rather then later abandons...

Depends on one's style of trading. In discretionary trading or in manually implemented systematic trading being able to discern the change of background conditions for entering and following the trade and taking advantage of it when it continues to be favorable is one of the qualities of a...