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BROOKS -- The Gift that keeps on Giving Brooks's blog today has another gem, as seems to be the case at least once a month. As is typical, it's mentioned matter-of-factly, with no emphasis in the format, and is repeated in a way that is more redundant than artful repetition. Also as is...

caroy, interesting -- this has been going on for a long time and has enabled late hedges, presumably still doing so. Funny, I sometimes do the same for equities, wrt the 15h00 CST options close vs. 15h00-15h15 globex & then thru after-hours. Is it your impression that the origin of the...

I believe the only way is to download TWS again from the web -- much easier than it sounds, in my experience. After that, suggest you keep a renamed copy of the new Jts dir, for use the next time you want to start anew. NB: rm/rename the current Jts dir before TWS download, otherwise I think...

Overnight, don't you understand ? For several years volpri's entries have been among the most transparent and worthwhile in public fora. Don't assume your views are representative of serious traders, who just might not be as vocal as you and your 17,166 posts ... (man, that's more than 4x the...

In my observation, the best "trading-educator" nuggets tend to arrive as modestly-tossed-off asides, often usable only if you can combine them with something else already in your repertoire, or figure out a refinement that makes them precise enough for trading. On a few occasions I've seen an...

bc few participants have the requisite Knowledge, Determination, Wits, Self-awareness, & Self-control to successfully play the winner-take-all games of short and intermediate-term trading & bc those that do have scant motivation to share their knowledge

I think this gets it --

What several seemingly astute macro analysts have said in the past year: Gold is a hedge against negative real rates Gold is not a reliable hedge to equity market risk Gold appreciation comes during relatively short, high momo moves separated by long periods of hard-to-trade chop Related...

Maybe this: If you have not been manually saving your sessions (via 'File/Save Settings') or individual chart files, your commentaries won't persist past the automatic daily TWS restart. That restart might be scheduled to occur when you're not at the computer, so you'd return to the computer...

When the white sheep loses, the sheep will be told s/he lacks "discipline," to fully swallow these stooly-oats, labelled "AAA Choice." Never miss a meal !

is a race-dog trainer a fraud if he/she has not personally competed in, and won, dog-races ?

Had a trial for a year -- outstanding content & production. Since most of my trading is technically-driven, I do not need heavy macro povs, which is the main focus of RV. So did not renew. RV has occasional segments that are focused mainly on technicals -- I found these not so actionable vs...

Great, thanks Overnight

To get around bad options bid/ask spreads: use the underlying (U) to neutralize position delta Eg, for a long 40 call w/ 1 week till expiration, and U reaches your 50 target: sell 100 shares of U, don't exit the call. More precisely, sell a number of shares equal to the 100 x the delta of the...

As shown further below, there are different trading times for CME Corn Futures ZC Regular contract/5K bushels YC MINY contract/1K bushels Does anyone have any view on The WHYs & The IMPLICATIONS ? Is the ZC closing price understood as the "real" price for CME corn futures, ie is the MINY...

As a reminder that everyone has to make up their own mind, here's what Tom McClellan, no slouch analyst, says tonight: GDM & GOLD: Bearish short and intermediate term. Big down days almost never mark the end of a down move. More should be coming. I'm not dissing themickey, or assessing who's...

Expiated, thanks for this and your other thorough, thoughtful, well-reasoned threads. Your entry #53 sent me riffing on some of its ideas, applied to a trading approach of mine that does not use envelopes, and I came up w/ some new ideas that I think will work quite well.

a chart is field of poppies, the charoin pulls me in over and over, I'm a junkie for watching dem bars morph and reconfigure while I ponder what they mean and what they will do next. Electric lava-lamp. ahh, ahh, char-turkey, need charphine ahh ...

small minds quibbling over small change; plus ca change ...

Agree; OP may find a bigger, more lucid, faster, freer high in the Volpri-Demerol at https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/techniques-for-day-trading-the-es-nq-ym-mes-mnq-and-mym.336259/ [ freer; can be such a thing as "more free" ? ]