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    How much does external stress reduce discretionary trading profits?

    %5 NOT much @ all; but i allow for 1% slippage on market orders. WMT auto pay ripped me off by a penny once, to much of a hurry to mess with ; but i've found alot more that that in the parking lot-God bless WMT..... I think a metals dealer ripped me off more than that 1% this year; but he...
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    Trading is an art form and its also intuitive

    % I agree; mostly+ seldom if ever do any see any man with intuition like a wise woman. BUT in a man its not really much of mystery; a subconscience mind NEVER forgets anything. I double checked with Webster's; ''quick + ready insight== amen. Even if i would not use the word'' quickLOL''...
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    Favorite ETF/ETNs/CEFs for yield

    %% I agree; partly. But early this year good trade/better than SPY Si senior[yes mr]:D:D
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    Trading is an art form and its also intuitive

    %% He writes like a man with a fine female pic[, i read it all]; sounds like discipline, art [+ intuition]+ ''almost a science'' an elite trader termed it. NOthing subjective about an objective 200 day moving average; of course there are quite a few different 200dma s, but not great...
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    SPY versus SPLV and RSP

    %% Long term SPY > outperforms SPLV; but sometimes SPLV will live its nickname. But i noticed sometimes in SPLV/ funds + elephant buyers jump on the long side+ beats SPY a lot. Long term repeating,, SPY %>SPLV, shown on your charts2; SPLV pays better yield \no wonder it tends to underperform...
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    %% FRANKLY you are right ; mostly. But in past 50 years Overnite is more right; DOW diverges 5-10% of the time , 50 years= and it makes sense=no way is Dow30 the same as SPY[S&P 500]. So never say never ;when its just a hi% . Even YTD notice the difference in % gains, DOW+ SPY= not even close%...
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    Lyft confirms $600M in new funding at $7.5B valuation

    %% LOL\ +almost 50% drawdown in one week\ good thing they named it ''Lyft'':D:D Let see if the parabolic stop + reverse buy holds @10.38+/; not so far/ but looking better for the bulls@ close this week:caution::caution:
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    Trading is an art form and its also intuitive

    %% Good, wise small business points; sorry i missed HUBS, but i seldom if ever buy gap ups like that\ even less if its a $4-500 single stock i dont really know. I so seldom study or trade after hours; some time do buy or sellsome or study WSJ post market-delayed paper WSJ/IBD newspaper Good...
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    Trading Software for active traders (Futures/Equities)

    %% They have 2 color charts on Twitter also. Hard to go wrong with a free trial. I do about 80-88-97%[average]of my chart analysis after close + before market open. So IBKR charts with thier consistant but wrong volume , was ok; i just never did completely trust any brokers charts...
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    %% MSFT sometimes has very good trends; find something like V-nyc +door dash. So keep records, cash , dash, trash, treasure ; +avoid stuff like SPXL or ES, especially during a slop chop+ backlash or useless trash trend. Even though one of the best metals dealer i do business with, i think...
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    Crypto Donations Pour Into Turkey & Syria Following Devastating

    %% LOL; SBF, not to worry is out of jail on bail. Bernie M died in jail, so some would say\ today\ -that's progress??. EDOG has turkey exposure, not sure if anything has Syria -soviet satellite exposure?? Not a prediction or a buy .
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    %% I lost $2,500+/ more , but not more than 7-0r9 times; Argentina Hi volume gamebird shoot. Plus ammo cost 5x what its in USA, but that's life.[Good thing for me i shot more than average in USA but less than average in Argentina/Uruguay] I dont even really consider a vacation like that an...
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    %% Good but he does NOT like the wide bid\ask; same here ,about 80-95%of the time. But good play on words, M= mini mum; or Market in CAN SLIm. There is one advantage on wide\bid ask; only skilled swing traders or wide time frame day trader would do that. And dont forget to save the horse...
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    Virtu Reports Record Year in Options Market Making

    %% Looks like a good net income? Dont know if Wall Street doesnt like the crypto cr*p or what. SCHW notes bearish 200dma + rising debt. Good dividend; + elephant buyers @ 12+$14:caution::caution:. Not a prediction
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    Good call-note; another problem for me, my nerves try to get me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to early out of a good trend. So i ignore about 95%-99.999% of my nerves, in trading. But if my nerves+ $3k loss bothered me enough to post it; i would ignore my nerves again but not ignore the $3k ES loss...
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    Who Thinks Swing Trading is Dangerous?

    %% SURE is dangerous +risky+ rewarding sometimes; that 's why it may pay/pay well to read an insurance contract. IF i had to buy tqqq\UPRO\ SPXL or ES, XLE, maybe not do that in last half FEB. Would i help sell insurance to a bunch of fake news clowns like ABC?? Yes, even though they cost a...
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    Main reaaon for economic poverty in USA ?

    %% DID not know the gov gave away hamburger, good points ; i know fake news ABC got slaughtered [so to speak] in SD over their slander\fake news on hamburger\LOL:D:D:D:D:D,:D:caution::caution: Billions + billions served against themLOL. I like a .357 magnum/.38 special, .30-06, 12 gauge[.410 as...
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    Signs of Ford Collapse

    %% FORD + HMC/TM were about the cars best pick Ups[trucks.....\ not the stock\LOL] i ever owned; but that may not help Ford stock price. Not likely TSLA ever replaces a fossil fuels Ford pick up, in quality or sales; even if TSLA stock does better than Ford next 107 years. WE [ banker dad...
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    Signs of Ford Collapse

    %% barchart.com has a 24% sell on Ford+ price still down from last week in JAN topping tail. I noticed over the years options are the most in-accurate or skip- sloppy price data of any thing i ever studied; + much of it not in buyers favor. I dont blame options for wide bid\ask ; any...
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    Main reaaon for economic poverty in USA ?

    %% THAT's no excuse+ crime rates were real low from1929-33, with much higher employment+ poverty much worse than now. AS if Bernie M, Enron execs.... were poor / they sure were not poor . Of course Bernie Madoff is poor now[dead duck] but that's because of crime + punishment, prison.; so +...
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