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  1. danielc1

    An $809 Car Payment, a $660 Income: How Dealers Make the Math Work

    I'm confused, do you mean that there are people that buy a car and financed it? And that there are people that buy things that cost more then what they earn? I thought traders where nuts with margins of 5% or less
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    What do you think when you see a famous trader now selling courses & mentorship plans?

    She is selling what people want. Easy answers to a difficult and demanding profession. The world is full of pipe dreamers with no commitment to really learn the craft. To capitalize on those kind of people is a choice. Maybe she find someone trough the education process that a person really...
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    How You Can Get Big Gains That Wall Street Can’t

    Not perhaps, but a sure thing of survivorship bias. This is the optimal curve fitting...
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    How often you're 80%-100% sure ?

    You miss another possible option in your poll: 0% you are never sure about a single trade and you win big due to large samples of trades and having a skew risk/reward system like 1 to 5 or much bigger.
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    TopStep "Funded Trader" trading rules

    Everything like topstep traders have rules that are restriction on your freedom how, when and with how much size you can trade. Normally, their rule book is on the website or you can ask them.
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    TopStep "Funded Trader" trading rules

    You are comparing oranges with apples.
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    Contemplation of a bored mind...

    It could be that crypto goes to the moon. If you see that money does not yield or even has a negatieve yield in some places of the world, many people will look for alternatives to liqued assets besides money. In my country you have to pay to park money. In my country they try to controle the...
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    ‘Their house is on fire’: the pension crisis sweeping the world

    Ha, the picture is not clear enough...
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    Volume data from IB does not match Yahoo data

    The lines do not compare in numbers, but they do correlate in movement. If orange peaks, so does the blue line.
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    Volume data from IB does not match Yahoo data

    Every data feed is different. Not so much in price but most of the time in recorded volume. IB use a segmented way to represent volume.
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    Cash withdrawals on margin

    The highest amount I could withdraw was 0.5X, when in positions with portfolio margin. IB is conservative in the use of margin calculations, and that is a good thing.
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    Dual Citizen US and EU/EEA

    Are you not taxed as us citizen, just because you are a us citizen? I know there are tax rules that can say you are exempt because you pay the tax in other country, but then there must be an agreement between the us and that country. Nl: depends on your trading, but they can tax just the base...
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    Starting up - advice and tax

    Welcome, All the question you have asked depends on how you trade and what your trading style is. No one here on the board can give you advise because we do not know how your trading is. If you are consistent profitable, I personnaly think you should know al the answer you have asked, maybe...
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    I'm worried

    Buy a put option as far out the money you want to get as cheap as possible and with an exp.date when you think you will get out. It can be the cheapest way to sleep
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    How much is a good Stoploss system method worth?

    If for example you have a trailing stop with some kind of level, you could make that level a setup for your trigger to re enter the market. You just have to have an universal trigger like a new high or somethings else that occurs often.
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    How much is a good Stoploss system method worth?

    Stop, target 1, 2 and 3, where 1 is just catching a high win rate, 2 a target that make sense (s/r for example) and 3 is a kind of if the trend is not broken, stay in the trend. Also a trailing stop works best with a re entry, where the trailing stop is the setup for the re entry.
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    Market Footprint

    I find the use of cumulative delta and price very informative. If price goes up, but cumulative delta goes up more in comparison with prior moves, it tells that there could be a drastic move to the other side, when cumulative turns. It is not so that it predict a move to the other side, it still...
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    Market Footprint

    If you do some research, you will find foot print chart for less then $5000. The information you need to use foot print chart is also avaible on youtube. One quick note: Foot print chart is a tool, not a system or the way to make money. You still must know how to trade.
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    Market Footprint

    It depends also at what level they are looking at. If it is in out, hunderds of print, maybe they need to get a bigger picture to trade from
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    Market Footprint

    CL, YM, E7 You need to spend some time to understand the relation between price movement and delta. You will see in real time what 'they' are doing and learn how you can react on it. Go with the flow and sometimes go against the flow, it is all in the print
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