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Interesting thread. I'd be curious to see how you bounce back from a string of losing trades, since you're so leveraged on each trade it will hurt massively. If a trade goes against you in vertical spread, I am assuming you have to hold to expiration to collect the full premium of the short...

interesting post. From time to time, I calculate the costs of various retail brokers. In the end, the old saying of you get what you paid for is often rings true, especially in terms of execution and customer service. I agree there is a lot of back-office work that retailers bundle into the...

this is something I'm actually interested in hearing about. Any pictures of the construction?

is this thread a joke? You sound like a modern day gypsy.

I trade 2 time frames. swing and position. I use the two to hedge out volatility of my equity, not that it has helped me much in the last 6 months, but c'est la vie. I look for my position trades to be my homeruns and my swing trades to be my singles and doubles. I don't have the ability to...

lmao.

This thread is a constant reminder why I avoid draw-downs like the plague. Whenever I have a losing streak it's usually because the market is not conducive to my strategy. I'm a long only swing trader and this year has been dismal. I am down just over 4% YTD. At my peak, I was up 15%. My worst...

It's also ironic that a board of daytraders will bash a man who created tangible assets for the world through innovation. Oh yea, I forgot. The day trader's greatest gift to society is liquidity.

Your statement is foolish. Steve Jobs was a visionary and changed the world. Surprising how industry titans, who have revolutionized the way the world works, i.e., eric schimdt, larry page, bill gates, jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, michael dell, bloomberg and countless others seem to think...

Win Rate is irrelevant. The point is that we are all trying to make right bets in the market when we trade. Who goes into a trade thinking that they are on the wrong side of the trade? No one. On that note, I find trading is best when one is going for sizeable gains. Or where a trader doesn't...

Fundamentals are predominantly irrelevant in intraday markets. Which is why I prefaced my statement with a longer time frame. Slower markets are my game, which is why I take heed to fundamentals. I don't want to have to make a nut in a game where bots that are colocated next to the exchanges...

That's a bit of an overstatement. If you are holding a position over a prolonged period of time, say several quarters, fundamentals do matter. I find the following principles to hold true to good trading for swing trading: 1. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts: Use both...

Can you punctuate your thoughts correctly. It's like reading a diarrhea of words. ..... you know .... this ...

Yikes, a massive haircut for the month. I rarely traded this month and scratched off 2.5% off my bankroll. Interested to see what/how you were exposed to the market.

lmao. you guys need to work on your smear campaigns better. Elitetrader is more comedic than CNBC.

lmao. thumbs up. I don't play intraday with the HFT sharks much, but it will be fun to see when the cost of doing business goes up for these jackals and makes the strategies irrelevant. Too bad it will ruin the scalping game for the rest of retail daytraders. Only takes one person to piss in the...

This thread makes me want to brush off my Heidegger and Nietzsche books. The question that underlines all this is as much as a philosophical question of epistemology and existentialism as it is with hard science. "What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors." - Nietzsche

On second thought, I would love to see what would happen if all the HFT began to concentrate their activities to the tax-free markets only. It would be a melee of epic proportions.

you just blew my mind.

Scalping for pennies looks like its on the way out. I wonder what the markets would look like without all the HFT noise.