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An intraday gap. There are many scenarios, even if you only want to talk about ones that actually happened I apologize for the drama, but I was using it to try and get a very important point across to those that believe Gaps may be gone (except for Sunday night). ... the point is: Gaps...

My friend. You just haven't seen one yet. And, just make sure that when you do ... it is not your last. ... when it comes, and you are watching, it may look like this: You are watching TWS IB trading ES during the day. Nice tight spread of the usual 1 tick. Stop order protecting your...

Is the IRS requesting action on your part? Or are they just notifying you of an adjustment made to your return by them to account for the 1099 losses sent to them by Etrade? In other words, what is the problem?

Is anybody here using IB TWS for combo's (spread) on similar, but different underlying? Examples would be 2 leg Steepeners or Flateners on ZF,ZN, ZB? or ... COIL vs. WTI (or 2 * QM)? ... is it possible to construct a combo in TWS with legs on different futures contracts? (searching...

QM (500) is half $ of WTI (1000)? So, WTI exceeds QM on a dollar volume basis? ... am I missing something here?

in 2004 we terminated our Keogh contribution program and rolled them into self directed IRAs (in which we trade futures). We opened a SEP program for 2004,5,6. In it, we trade futures and continue to make contributions. All accounts are now with IB.

My suggestion was only that your size, for a $25k account, remain small (smaller), so you can survive, experience and learn. (btw, trading directionally and being on both sides of a drastic move like that - you can make(lose) a lot of money quickly, but most of all, either way you can learn a...

It was a monthly non-farm payrolls 2 years ago. Agreed on buying volatility in this market, but I have never done that before in a meaningful way. I actually, just finished reading "When Genius Failed ...", and realize these guys sold large long term (5yrs) warrants as a means to sell equity...

last posted gif is difficult to read from site (resolution is reduced): ZN is 114-270 at 8:30am ZN is 112-110 at 8:31am Bid<112-160 Ask>114-160 at one point

I am more worried about a day (or maybe in this case a few minutes) like this ... taking you down ... being on the wrongside of a move like this from 114-270 to 112-110 in minutes without ability to cover. ... "event risk" (China floats, terrorist attack, a leader dies, osama caught, etc)

My friend, I believe you are overtrading especially for ZN, especially at this time. Everyone appears to be quietly awaiting the big move.

Favorite Buffett quote: "Mistakes: If you don't make mistakes, you can't make decisions."

correction. here is it:

TUNE? Microtune. IPO'd August 2000? Here is the daily chart for Aug 2000/Jan 2001 (the crazy days).

How much logical control do you have over your mind's own actions? And once you identify an anomaly in your behavior you want to correct, how much power do you have to correct it? Tough questions. Try this: While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. While...

Successful traders do exactly the opposite of unsuccessful traders.

Traders: buy high, sell higher sell low, buy lower

Quite a broad generalization ... and broad generalizations tend to make for bad trading. David E. Shaw, Jim Simons, and Raj Rajaratnam would be 3 of the top performing hedge fund managers I can name - all could be described as engineers turned trading. How about: "Bad engineers make bad...

Very curious. Were you trading the SP during a certain dark dark Friday ... and black Monday in October 1987? If so, was this the single wildest ride in the SP500 since then? thank you for your generous reply.

You have got to be joking? Man Group? Author of the thread is looking for zero or very low risk and you send him to the worlds largest manager of Hedge funds. I think you are confusing "Principle Protection" with guarentee - very different - very active - very expensive - requires a lot...