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Trades of less than 100 shares won't show up on the chart. You can see these trades by looking at the level II data but the price shown on the chart won't update.

Talking heads on mass media and so called "experts" are traps. They can't predict a stock price for tomorrow, what makes you think they can predict what the economy will be doing a year from now. Best advice I have for you is to rigorously test your strategies to make sure they actually have an...

I'm aware of strategies that use moon phases. Google "stock trading based on moon phases" to see what's out there.

TD Ameritrade published the following list on September 7th: https://www.tdameritrade.com/retail-en_us/resources/pdf/TDA101550.pdf These are securities it deems non-compliant and they are currently only accepting orders to liquidate positions. The document is 53 pages long so there are quite a...

I've been using ToS for quite a few years so I must have been grandfathered in at $5 per trade. I actually use ToS more as a realtime charting platform and not so much for trading. I really like the interface although there is a learning curve involved. I do most of my trading through IB due to...

If you are trading from a margin account you can buy US stock without having a US $ balance as long as you have adequate margin available. In a retirement account or non-margin account you would have to exchange CAD for USD before buying the shares. Currency exchange in IB is very efficient. You...

My approach would be to trade a small portion of a portfolio with a tested strategy that historically was capable of returning 50% per year. Trading 25% of a portfolio leaving 75% in cash, even if the original strategy had drawdowns of 25% your total portfolio would only experience drawdowns of...

Were you selling puts during the COVID crash Feb-Apr 2020? How was the performance? Selling puts can work well for long stretches when the market is trending up or sideways. The real test is when things crash quickly. Accounts can blow up quickly in these situations.

From his post: the last time SP500 finished at .00 points in the last 30 days was never. The lack of decimal points emphasizes how important our 4468 number is. So he is talking about integer/round numbers.

Since 1980 the SPX has finished on an integer value (i.e. decimal is 0.00) 106 times. This is over 10495 trading days. So 1.01% of the time. Statistically this will happen 1% of the time since the decimal can be any number from 0 to 99. There is no significance to it finishing at 4468.00.

If there's one thing I've learned over 25+ years of trading and investing it's that people (no matter who they are) are terrible at predicting the future. Compounding is hard for the general population to wrap their heads around......how could a loaf a bread cost $10, that's ridiculous.

Yahoo provides free historical data: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ES%3DF/history?p=ES%3DF&.tsrc=fin-srch https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/YM%3DF/history?p=YM%3DF Goes back more than 15 years.

There is an auction that occurs at market close. Rules vary depending on the exchange: https://www.nyse.com/network/article/nyse-closing-auction https://www.nyse.com/article/nyse-closing-auction-insiders-guide https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/productsservices/Trading/ClosingCrossfaq.pdf The...

Did you use adjusted data for this? It will make a difference as SPY pays a dividend.

A lot of stocks especially on the Nasdaq have been hammered lately. I'm showing about 50% of the components in the NDX below their 100 day MA.

Earnings today. Shaky guidance.

There can be a tax advantage if you don't want to sell your long positions and trigger a capital gain. You can basically neutralize your portfolio for however long you want and not actually have to sell your positions.

Sure looks like a micro e-mini to me: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/micro-e-mini-futures.html#

You could sell micro e-mini S&P contracts, one per every $20K you're trying to hedge. Direct hedge against your current positions, no drag like options.