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I lost money when a broker seemingly panic closed my crude oil spread even tho I was well over their stated margin requirements. I did file a finra complaint so hoping to hear back from them. I also lost an insane amount by crypto brokers going under or getting "hacked" As far as the...

Yeah, negative crude has been the biggest blow to my trading, I consider it a black swan.

what expiration? and why did you choose that expiration if you dont mind

Probably better off doing QQQ instead of the NDX if you want better fills/liquidity. But if you want to give the NDX market makers $ im sure they will let you. curious what strategy are you using for 6 months away? Are you just hedging your portfolio or something

"Only The Game, Can Teach You The Game” – Jesse Livermore :D But I think the book depends on what kind of trading you do. Quants, Macro traders, treasury traders, stock investors etc will have different world views if you will

Puts were extremely expensive, Like you would need the stock to drop hundreds of dollars in a short period of time to break even let alone profit. I did sell call credit spreads tho which are working out. Its only seemingly obvious because its hindsight.

Its a business. I'm pretty sure they make most of their money selling combines over the dream of actual profitable traders but we won't know unless they release audited financial statements which they have 0 reason to.

if you withdraw all your profits, they close your account I heard. As you have 0 drawdown now TST wants to mitigate their risks asap its probably why they are still in business

First ask yourself, why do you want to hedge? As that would help find the more suitable hedge Like if I had a long SPX call, and wanted to hedge against some emergency oil news. I could buy a put in XLE or whatever ETF/stocks that matches the SPX energy sector to negate the outcome of that...

Your profits become the limit I believe. Like if you have $5k profit sitting in the account, that $5k is your limit

Well with cash markets & index options having 0 fees on options, I guess CME doesn't think they can compete? Would love micro options due to their 24/7 nature tho, don't mind paying the duopoly their fee. Tho of course I would prefer a free market where other exchanges can open and compete...

investing.com economic calendar is decent Are you a macro trader? I am and don't know many who are.

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” ― Margaret Thatcher

Thanks, I notice you use "1000" for UB. I was thinking it was a fixed 100k contract, so is that "1000" a little off? or is it an accurate reflection of the UB contract? I know 50*/ES is.

Thanks, Curious if you know any good spreads where you long both instruments or short both instruments? Like maybe long /es & longing /ZN as a hedge? or something

So, if one were to short S&P and long dow. On most platforms they could put the symbol something like this "/es-/ym" But what if someone had a spread idea where they long both or short both instruments? What would that look like? I use ThinkOrSwim &/or TradingView

Guess this is over now? missed it, wished there was longer than 1 day notice. Oh well, how many people joined and anyone in here won?

Anyone know something like this except for the futures market? holidays are tricky for that one

There are VERY few things that work. In fact, so little the struggle was not having enough so I would try to jump into something else. It wasn't until I stuck with the little that did work until I started growing and being consistent. Basically stick to what works even if its tiny. It can grow...

I personally think an edge is knowing/seeing something the market isn't(and you can know the market isn't seeing it by it not being priced in) Ie, I know a few oil workers and farmers that tell me from experience they know on a more probable level how the supply/demand will be for oil and...