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  1. Bad_Badness

    How to Let Your Winning Trades Run: Got ideas?

    Take all at a reasonable profit after run, move from MA, blow out volume or whatever, convert some profits to pure directional options for the runner.
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    Books for learning the reasons behind market moves

    It is not for you to wonder why, but to make the trades and never lie.
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    Fun Thread: Why I love my trading laptop

    These Linux branched "OEM" machines are getting good reviews too. https://system76.com/laptops
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    Static versus Dynamic

    There is an old saying about no war plans survive the first contact with the enemy. Likewise, why would a static stop loss or target plan survive the addition of new information, i.e. data. So not so obviously, "new information" here has to be taken into context. If you are on a large time...
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    Dell 27 4K on sale

    Dell 27 4K UHD Monitor - S2721QS for 340.00. Seems like a good deal. YMMV. https://www.dell.com/en-us/member/shop/accessories/apd/210-AXLG No affiliation here, just saw the deal.
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    basket order - conditional

    I used bracket trader for a while. Amazingly solid. Never had a problem. The beauty of KIS. No time based feature when I used it.
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    IB TWS layout nightmare

    This seems to have fixed some issues for me: from build 980 release notes: "Previously the Price History tool allowed the user to rearrange columns but did not save the new arrangement when the user logged out. This has been fixed to save the new column arrangement."
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    Nasdaq just closed under the 50 day moving average

    Now it is above. Run around and flap your arms while you place your "bets". o_O The bounce was the high percentage short term bet. After that, see how it goes....
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    Time to short the market...

    Go for it! See how it works out. Education costs money sometimes.
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    Fun Thread: Why I love my trading laptop

    Boot time makes no difference of course. It is just a measure of machine speed. As for latency, I am doing "full boat" calculation, Round trip, because that is effectively what is happening.
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    Interactive brokers base currency

    Seems like you might loose money holding USD versus AUD, based on the USD trend. Something to consider also. Also read more about how it actually works at IB.
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    Robinhood vs the world - any RH traders here?

    RH seems like a hustle on an epic scale. Selling order flow is a huge deal. Just consider the time line of what I would want as the hustler. Get a huge number of people making small amounts, and not from me. Prepare my algors while this is happening. Wait for a froth period and start...
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    Yes, another one

    ES is a lot of leverage-Bond. Currently bond of 13.2K per contract. So you should have that +a few K as a buffer. The alternative is Micro-ES at 10:1. A lot of professionals use ES for various reasons. It could be a very tough place to start, but I did and use it now. Mostly because I...
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    Fun Thread: Why I love my trading laptop

    Desktop machines run so fast these days. In general, I think they run about+ 50% faster with the same chips series, desktop versus mobile. What is your boot time? I can't get mine below 11 seconds with 7.6 of that being BIOS. I run the Samsung 970 Pro as my system drive. I thought I should...
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    When do you use profit-targets versus trailing profit stops when taking profits?

    Some context is needed. This is like asking when do you eat chicken. The detail would make the discussion fruitful, maybe.
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    New Article--What is Your Trading Plan?

    Did he also say something like, "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is."
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    Yes, another one

    Which buttons do I press? When? Answer those two question would be exacting. On some level that is all you do.
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    Recommendations for learning

    @ norbert. When the ES volume dropped off I went into real estate. Fixed and flipped houses in FL in a beach community. Did commercial real estate investing in the NW. Spent a lot of time with family. Oh, oh, had a tier 3 weed farm and was a weed grower for 3 years. All this made me...
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    Recommendations for learning

    All good thought from GM. Just FYI, I got a ton of live experience (over 10 years) and as I creating a new strategy, I have been on paper for over 18 months. Part of it is I started from scratch, the other part is, I got a working system, but I am testing the boundaries so that I know what...
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    Yes, another one

    And look up what makes a good trading plan before you submit one.
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