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Yeah I have been holding some CCL for a month or two now.

Me and Mrs Monster were talking about Olive Garden and Texas Roadhouse. and mostly the budget or mid tier hotel/motel chains. It will be a while before the mints on the pillow, towels folded into swans type joints are full up. Mrs Monster works for Shell and so she keeps an eye on oil prices and...

Of course I am thinking chain restaurants and hotels, resorts, cruise lines, truck stops, theme parks, oil, airlines, because of the probable lifting of Covid related restrictions as vaccines become available, but what else? Am I missing anything?

TBH I think it is the right thing to do to just split any increase 50/50 even if you think the court will not so order. If you had been single, after all, you probably would have blown it all on guns you don't need, cars you shouldn't have at all, strippers, and dope, right? Single guy stuff...

Mrs Monster has to use a laptop supplied to her by the company, for company work. She has spoken to IT about using Linux but they just sort of stare with a blank look on their face. In the current job market, finding a local company willing to pay her well into 6 figures that isn't stuck on...

Something is very strange. Why the compliance review? What piqued their interest? Something very unusual in your account, transfers, trades, or requests for this or that must have made your account stand out. TBH I have to question wether we are hearing the whole story or not. Obviously IB can't...

More adventures with MNQZ2020! The day started out like crap. I got faked out right and left, was $750 down at one point after 4 trades. Then it started trending up nicely and I made it to $1600 and back down to +$1023 buying in to dips that were actually just segments of a plummet. I REALLY...

The Naz 100 futures are looking pretty trendy today. I am running my stops pretty loose right now, being over $200 in the green and playing with the house's money. My profit taker is at 11795 and my stop is at 11660 right now, well below the lower bollinger. Hope I'm not making a mistake with...

Taking naps is fun.

They are not that bad, IMHO. Since I use Linux instead of one of the kindergarten operating systems, I really don't have much choice for platforms except TWS, ToS, or webware. Customer service hasn't been too bad. I do wish they would get it together with TradingView so I would be able to trade...

HAHA Yeah that's a good idea. But I will be keeping the live IB account up on screen, mostly, for the next few days. I got TradingView set up to give me an audible alert anytime MNQ crosses below the lower Bollinger. That's my "Hey, dummy, pay attention cause this might be a buy opportunity...

Starting fresh, so fresh journal. I am concentrating on the index micro emini futures, trying to get back up to $25k. Right now, I stand at $17,681, with all three day trades available, which could come in handy I suppose, but I don't have to worry about that, trading futures. I was in and...

I have certainly made some nice wins overnight. My first $2k+ win was an overnight hold of BYND. (sold when I woke up, didn't wait for the bell, but I still would have been many hundreds in the green.) Nevertheless, I will wait for a multi-day up trend before I start holding futures overnight...

I wouldn't totally agree. You can have a target in mind and still let it run, if it will. If I see big volume as a stock or other tradeable approaches my target, I might well lift the target sell order up out of the way completely, move my stop up tight underneath it, and follow it on up as it...

HAH! It touched bottom and I bought. I used my "dead man switch" technique to lock it in. On the chart in TWS, I drag my stop up above the price action but I don't drop it. Finger stays on. If I lift the finger, the stop triggers and executes. So I thought I had it at $1021 but it slipped $6 in...

So yesterday I lost I think $396 or something like that. Today I caught a dip at 1200 and rode it up to the middle bollinger for a profit of $547. The plan is, I got other things to do. If it reaches down and touches the lower bollinger again, I will buy and ride it up again. If I take profit or...

Several days of $1k-$2k losses had nearly made me drop out again. Yesterday I did not trade. I resolved to only trade the eminis when I have a well established trend at my back, and this morning I decided meh, I would push the envelope and call it an established bullish trend. I never got up...

The best way for IB to upgrade their charting would be to interface with TradingView. But they won't.

Oh ok. Thanks guys, for your answers to my kinda noobish question.

With all the hurricane damage, I can't imagine lumber prices going down. Is there such a thing as a split in commodity futures?