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Who wrote the OP's article: Joe Nocera. Who is Joe Nocera? In an August 2011 column on the US debt ceiling crisis, Nocera compared "Tea Party Republicans" with terrorists, and wrote that they "have waged jihad on the American people" and suggested that they "can put aside their suicide...

Trading is certainly not as easy as some portray. 96% of all businesses fail within 10 years according to Inc magazine, so it is similar to trading as a business. https://www.inc.com/bill-carmody/why-96-of-businesses-fail-within-10-years.html Why do people do something that has such low odds...

Just curious... What are your qualifications to judge Jigsaw Trading as a trading educator? Have you taken the Jigsaw course? Are you a full-time trader? Since you mention "low intellect", what IQ would you consider to be a high intellect? P.S. I know very little about Jigsaw. I have my own...

I believe most complaints about AMP charges are from customers who checked the $300 margins box with their data request. AMP charges extra for the added risk, and it is not included in their commission schedule. I did not request the $300 margin. My statements appear accurate to me. The trade...

Yes, you are crystal clear. I appreciate taking your time to post here. :thumbsup:

This was just for the sake of clarification on this PDT subject. I am mostly trading futures due to tax benefits and accounting simplicity. I also do not need a sub-$25k account for equities. My point was that sub-$25k equity accounts are limited in the number of trades per week allowed. Your...

https://www.lightspeed.com/non-pattern-day-trading-page/ So one cannot do one trade per day in a cash account.

Are you saying that a $10k cash account @ Lightspeed can day-trade $1000 or $2000 in options everyday without being considered a Pattern Day Trader? P.S. The regs seem poorly written IMO.

futures ≠ equities PDT applies to equities and equity options, but not to futures and futures options.

Yes, no background, no voice inflection, no facial expression. Since you spend much time here, I assume there are some who know you and your outlook. However I am not one of them, as I only stop by occasionally.

I have not seen enough of your posts to get your sarcasm, because many people are saying exactly what you said.

I am on your side, but tariffs are paid by the importer. The increased cost is either passed on to the consumer, or comes off of the importers bottom line. https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2018/09/25/what-is-a-tariff-and-who-pays-it/#5366d763137b When Trump says China pays for...

I do agree with you that SC could use better marketing. They seem to depend on word of mouth advertising. In my experience, a fancy website and glitzy platform is just a "dog and pony show." It doesn't make you any money. It makes the them money. What is key IMHO is stability and functionality...

Maybe this is new since Ilan last checked. Automatic Trendlines are included in SC currently. https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?page=doc/StudiesReference.php&ID=244&Name=Automatic_Trendlines A private party in the SC Forums also offers a free S/R indicator similar to those I have seen in NT.

Tariffs were the main source of all Federal revenue from 1790 to 1914, before the Federal Income Tax and the (bank owned) Federal Reserve. Like Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, I am not a fan of Central Banks. Whether this current tariff push works or not remains to be seen...

While tariffs are widely blamed for the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve actually deserves credit, even according to Bernanke. At Milton Friedman’s ninetieth birthday party in 2002, Ben Bernanke said “I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we...

I doubt that is the reason. US Treasuries are paying more than most countries. There are currently over $17 Trillion in negative rate bonds worldwide. The Fed is way behind in the race to the bottom. Higher rates on Treasuries mean bigger deficits for the gov't. Switzerland AAA 10yr rate...

Business Insider's CEO and Editor-In-Chief Henry Blodget is a Yale history graduate who previously worked on Wall Street until he was banned for life from the securities industry because of his violations of securities laws and subsequent civil trial, which ended with a $2 million fine plus a $2...

You can also trade spreads in futures.

The Treasury yield trade was huge this month, and since last October.