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12/9/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $128.30 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $1009 ============= Non-Taxable Acct: IB IRA ============= Realized gain: $656 ============= Traded $NG_F late last night. At one point, I was up like $2K...

I don't know if Ross is real or not, but I think he does have some legitimate skills. Even on a sim account, I doubt newbie traders can even put up those numbers. The other trading guru that I think is legit is Steve Dux. His style is not mine but I've watched his videos. His logic and reasoning...

The September mayhem in the U.S. repo market suggests there’s a structural problem in this vital corner of finance and the incident wasn’t just a temporary hiccup, according to a new analysis from the Bank for International Settlements. This market, which relies heavily on just four big U.S...

While I'm not a subscriber of Steve Dux(I trade very different instruments and different types of stocks than him), I have seen his YouTube videos. He's the only one who actually show his P&L from TradeZero. He sounds legit. I never used his services. Just noticing he's the only stock...

12/6/2019: Addendum Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $562 ; added another $103 trading NQ the last few minutes ============= Got out of all of my other positions and freed up some margin to play a little NQ action at the close. Made $103 additional. It was close to $200 but didn't...

12/6/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $402.7 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $459 ============= Non-Taxable Acct: IB IRA ============= Realized gain: $765 ============= Reshorted CL_F (crude oil futures) today. Got in a little early on...

that's like 26bps on a $5B fund. rofl. Not even half a percent gain.

I've been with IB for so long. I guess I can look into other brokers for futures trading with better rates and lower margins requirements. I stopped using IB for equities every since I signed up for Tradezero and MerrillEdge. Hard to beat $0 commission. I have IB Pro by default. I've made...

I use IB to trade futures(but their margins are quite high). For my account size, they only let me trade 2 lots of CL. CL margins were really low in the past. Not sure what happened. NQ margins are high in IB IRA account too! I use Robinhood(equities & options), TradeZero, and Merrill Edge for...

12/5/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $676.63 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $1421 ============= Shorted CL futures. Made $1421 on just a couple of lots. Ran out of margin. IB margins are too high. ROFL. Wanted to trade NQ too but ran out...

Well, I don't know if my psychology will be the same on 10 lots! haha. For 1-2 lots, I can sit through the fluctuations. I don't know how people scalp for ticks unless you are doing automated HFT. Earlier on I tried scalping for ticks with very limited success. Now, I scalp for points. But to...

12/4/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $233.10 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $529 ============= Didn't catch much action today. But in the green. Missed out on a monster move in KOD, but the spread was like 30 cents so I didn't want to...

12/3/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $1444 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $655 ============= Held onto UGAZ and got out at a profit pre-market. Should have held longer would have been up at least $2K+. It was a scary hold the last few...

12/2/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: -$161 Unrealized gain: -$150 ============= Taxable Acct: IB ============= Realized gain: $1260 ============= Scary hold on UGAZ on Friday. Pre-market it was doing fine. Thinking it would recover everything, but it dipped below...

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11/29/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: -$546 Unrealized gain: -$745.0 ============= Morning up small with $ASLN, $AUY. Then shorted too soon on $FGEN but cut losses only to see it goes all the way to over 70cents my way. But by far, the scariest trade was dip buying...

The problem with unicorn startups is that they don't make any profits, relentlessly burn cash, and host of other issues. Happens in every cycle. VCs are eternal optimists. Dotcoms didn't make any profits and burn cash relentlessly too. At least dotcoms' IPOs performed well from 1999- March...

In your analogy, a hunter is a scalper/short-term trader. A farmer is an investor/long term position trader? Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well.

Yeah. I like those small priced high volatility stocks. It's always a scary ride when I trade them. The most size I have even traded in one stock was 60K shares. You read that correctly. 60K. I've shorted PCG on 30K shares before but it was scary as heck. I like size. But I like your strategy...

11/27/2019: Taxable Acct: Trade Zero ============= Realized gain: $69.58 Unrealized gain: $520 ============= 11/27/2019: Taxable Acct: Robinhood ============= Realized gain: $1623.56 ============= Trading EVH. Scary mofo ride! It eventually went where I thought it would go. On the options...