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Larry Williams daughter making 1,000% is amazing, she must have had a great teacher.

Rising interest rates has little if anything to do with the market crashing. Its just that having no interest rates for a long time has created the mother of all bubbles. Well that and printing currency like a drunken sailor.

The Moscow stock market being closed for a few weeks may have been caused by Ukraine hackers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/28/moscow-exchange-and-sberbank-websites-knocked-offline-was-ukraines-cyber-army-responsible/?sh=4df053fb77ca

The U.S. & Europe is subsidizing Putin's war buying oil & gas from him every day.

This podcast on taking big losses & moving forward after it is spot on. Start at 25 minutes:

Edge is the sum part of everything we bring to the table. About 80% of it psychological/behaviors - its easy to find setups that have worked well over time, it's far more difficult to execute long enough to make any real strides. Trading well is like getting into shape, the easy part is knowing...

I installed the regular on-line version, I was unable to install the off-line version.

I also had updated my Java version to the most recent, & restarted after loading the new TWS 10.14. Mine has run all night & day with no problems. Best of luck to you.

Ran into that last night - also running W7. To get TWS working I had to load the new version 10.14. This did the trick for me. Wish we were warned in advance.

Been doing my part for decades - all the food I consume is 100% plant based.

Always amazed at how many people still fall for phone scams where a person with a thick accent convinces them they will be hauled of to jail if they don't buy them gift cards. Some are losing their entire life savings to this. This scam apparently works - Americans lost $29B last year to...

Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

QQQ +16.8% on Jan 3, 2001. I still remember that day.

Risk/trade mgmt is also about exploiting winning trades & leaning into the not so common fat pitches with much more size. Think of it as loss/profit mgmt. It is creating the best chance for your math advantage (expectancy) over a larger # of trades to pay off. A trader with mediocre strategy...

We have to learn how to override our hard-wired human instincts to be good traders. - this in that part of the brain were logic/reasoning/best laid plans often goes out the window under stress - stun gun pain may help to learn faster. "We operate on two layers, we have our primitive monkey side...

If your lonely from trading you probably lacking a sense of purpose - having a passion outside of trading you can't wait to get to the minute your done . For myself I like trading alone - the most important conversations I have about trading are in my trade journal.

The big reversal we had today is typical in an extended sell off. I doubt it was the PTT since global futures indexes were along for the same ride.

The borrow fee % is the rate for a year (360 days). For example a 100% borrow rate on a $10,000 position = $28.33 for the day. The bid-ask spread may cost you more .. depending.

Bluestar foods - a thinly traded fish stock rose Fri 1,200% pre-market on no news than plunged in the regular session. There is always an endless supply of boom/bust stocks.