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Hi guys, How do you feel when the market is closed - such as on weekends when trading cannot be done ? Thank you

Hi guys, If one trades from down under, when are the taxes on trading US Index Futs. contracts to be paid ? Is it quarterly or annual ? Also, there are 2 classifications trader and investor. To be a trader - one has to trade frequently, have a plan etc. To be investor - one has to invest and...

Hi guys, For the above thread, I had checked with the accountant, and apparently one would need to show all the trades to determine the tax status and then decide how much tax to pay and file the taxes. I thought it would be sufficient to simply state the P/L to get the tax to be paid. So...

Hi Guys, When do traders have to pay the taxes - is it quarterly or annual when filing the taxes ? Thank you

Hi guys, Are stocks that are listed on major exchanges good for identifying obscure potential ? Or - would one need to look at stocks that are not listed in order to find obscure value. Please vote and also provide any description you have on this.

I am bit surprised because such an order type does not exist. Is there a way to request the platform provider (IB TWS for this) to add this order type to their standard platform ?

Hi guys, just wanted to check - if you do not know of any order such as the one described in above messages (and quoted below) - could you please comment if you think such an order, if exists, would be useful to your trading ?

Hmm, but I am not looking to close all positions using a manual order. I am looking for an automated order similar to an SL order. Such that when the sum of the P/L of all open positions reaches a certain predefined number, then all the positions are to be closed. This order would take as its...

bump up. + just to add another question - does anyone here see such order type as being useful to your trading ?

Thank you jtrader Looking at the basket order, it seems that the order can be opened for multiple positions, but not sure it can have a Take profit or SL for the entire position. It has LMT price for each of the components. But I am looking for a overall position P/L level (i.e. not price but...

Hi guys, Is there an order like this at IB ? or any other ? If multiple positions are opened separately, then is there an order (a predefined one like the SL order, that can be submitted at any point - including at the opening of the position) that can close all the open positions at a given...

Hi guys Would it be possible to do a 2 step test for covid-19. Here the first step would be a test on large (maybe the whole) population to determine if at all there is something in a person's serum that is not part of standard serum. if this step is possible and can be done quickly (like...

Hi guys, Shouldn't a pandemic preparedness be part of defense strategy ? If so, how is it that there seems to be such a lack or preparedness. Further, the pandemic preparedness should be financed from defense budget. Similar to how cyber security and communications are part of defense budgets...

I am not looking for the output of their research. rather the sources of research in general (which I presume are used by hedge funds as well). For example. if a company has a new technology in progress that would revolutionize the way business is done, where would one read about it ? Or for...

Thank you guys. This is one aspect of information looking for here. For this, I am also looking for the raw information without analyst screening it from Investment perspective but simple information from exciting tech and business perspective not for investment so that I could look at the...

Hi guys, How to obtain knowledge of and access to the data / information sources that are used by Investment institutions / Hedge funds etc ? For example, was watching a video of a hedge fund manager who had TSLA in their portfolio and other stocks in portfolios. And they were describing how...

Would it be possible to do something similar with an IB account ?

Thank you ZBZB

Does it come in the basic plan ? the $14 plan ? Or could I take free plan and choose for data from exchange and pay the exchange fees ?

Hi guys, Are tradingview.com free charts streaming live for Index Futs like ES etc and stocks ? Do you use tradingview and if so how do you use and is it useful ? Thank you