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    $BABA : Game over... back to the rescue.

    Hang Seng and HSTECH got destroyed once again overnight during the regular session in HK apparently for a new wave of Covid somewhere in China and related fears due to the strict covid policy implemented by the Government . This stuff can drop 5% per day for weeks and vice versa. I think is a...
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    China semiconductor industry decapitated

    I would be interested to know some American perspective about Taiwan issue; Does It make sense for Usa messing up over there?
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    China semiconductor industry decapitated

    Still Usa is the main economic, military, tech subject in the world. Just did what an empire would do to keep the position. The missing point is that they just created (with their actions) new alliances that highly unlikely will be able to fight later. Divide et impera.
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    building firm in new york, want in?

    So why dont you state how much money you are running and post audited returns?? these are fair and legitimate questions.
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    U18 Trading?

    You can use crypto in some defi exchange and You won’t need the help of anyone; there are as well some stock tokens you can give a look over there; if stocks is going to crash as You think will do, crypto will most probably follow or (anticipate) the move; if You are using some platform to...
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    Russia United States war looks imminent: Russian foreign ministry

    Till the national interest of each country will prevail over the concept of Europe, as a truly federal union of countries, democratic elected by their citizens, things will not change. On top of that, there are some historical cultural differences, different languages, different school systems...
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    How excel formulas to trigger Tradestation orders in Live Mode?

    There are some folks running rotational strategies with excel in Ts. But anyway, It will require advanced coding skills as basically You would need to implement the connector.
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    Another Kelly Criterion Question

    Kelly Criterion, Optimal F is all based on a model that as Stephen above mentioned assume forward risk/return would be kept the same as the past. Now assuming You are not using any system, you could use an approach that close/reopen the same trade every week on whole data history to calculate...
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    Suggestions for futures to trade

    Ahhh diversification.. to get the magical anti-correlated porfolio. when We don’t need it We get it and when We need it.. puff disappears! I found interesting a recent comment by Druckenmiller and his reasoning about concentrated positions. If a 20 billion guy trade concentrated positions after...
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    Suggestions for futures to trade

    I didn’t see in the list the hang seng tech. Hstech is the ticker at ib. I believe sgx may have some other stuff of interest for You.
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    Is anyone waiting to invest in BTC (if/when the price is right)?

    what about gold? Except trinkets used in 3rd world countries and ghetto in the developed ones there is not use at all.
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    Considering Tradestation - but first a question...

    Yes You can definitively back-test gaps from previous daily bar closes, using open next bar. One thing to keep in mind if You are going to use Futures is that for some calculations like % You would need to use custom futures contracts in order to keep your back-test analysis valid. And Yes You...
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    Considering Tradestation - but first a question...

    You can use "open next bar" syntax which mean the code will run only on the first tick of each daily bar. That would be pretty easy to make a quick version for testing. Using multi data streams has some issues especially with missing bars on the first data stream. However If You need great...
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    From IB: Answer these open questions

    Did You try to add permissions lately? I believe is related to the fact that in order to trade certain asset classes You need an account with IB UK and restart all the process of verifications. That is a huge pita to an extent that when happened to me I decided to NOT open that account and give...
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    Ability to adapt as a personal trait

    i believe what You mentioned is a key for success in trading. It’s not easy though change habits and beliefs. Personally i have noted that these changes happens in relation to painful situations. In other words changes are necessary and often take place from failures, personal loss etc. i see...
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    Question for ALL brokerage firms about this war

    i am not sure I follow here. Nationality is what play the role with sanctions and unless OP is an oligarch He doesn’t risk to get his account freezed and stolen by US or any nato member. Having said that If I was a russian national I wouldn’t want to have any fund in any nato country. We are so...
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    Question for ALL brokerage firms about this war

    What I currently do to deal with this headaches is to have multiples bank accounts on my names in different countries. Note I am European but I am living in Asia. You can move then from your broker the money in the account and country You want. Just give a card from that account where You intend...
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    IB: I shorted 1 mini SP; IB says I'm down more than $10,000

    I agree. What You are seeing happen sometimes to me as well. What I do to track daily P&L is via the net liquidation value which is always correct. If You trade Asian stuff is easy get the daily P&L screwed up due to the time of instrument specific reset
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    Not a hedge, just a high beta tech stock

    .. and crater your account $ value too at the worst time, during mkt crash. What people fail to understand is that is more important that 1% of time with correlation close to 1 than the other 99% of the time when indeed low correlation is not really needed. I suggest You to grab a good book from...
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