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    How to improve my risk management for daytrading.

    More details on Kelly Criterion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion I must confess, the criterion is a little more than i can take in and utilize, but certainly interesting. I'm told of one trader who swears by Kelly Criterion, enjoys 87% win rate and claims $100k per week average profit.
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    gold and oil stocks

    You might consider ETFs, which trade like stocks but are a basket of many stocks. For long position in Oil - take a look at the ever popular USO and triple leveraged UWT For long position in Gold miners - check out GDX and triple leveraged NUGT...
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    Universal Based Income

    When you write your paper ... drop the "d" out of the subject line.
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    Think or swim/Tdameritrade acted up this week

    I had a market order for a liquid stock rejected this week at TOS. I didn't look too close at the rejection message but the market order showed on screen for I'd guess 30 seconds or more - very unusual. It's not uncommon for TOS to have tech glitches from time to time. They had one, January 2...
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    Indicator for Comparing Which of Two Correlated Instruments is Leading/Lagging?

    As mentioned TOS has a study "Comparison" that allows you to overlay a line chart of any symbol over your primary instrument. Or you can compare any 2 at BigCharts.com by clicking on their "Advanced" tab. Compared here are UBER & LYFT for yesterday...
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    Defining a Strong vs Weak Trend

    I apologize for straying a bit from the original post. I'm curious to know what rule of thumb others use ... how quickly after the open (on average) they wait before determining a short term trend is established ... say 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc? I know it varies, but i keep trying...
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    Dell just put out a mammoth 43-inch monitor for traders — and we tried it

    yes, product info says ... 4x HDMI Inputs
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    Dell just put out a mammoth 43-inch monitor for traders — and we tried it

    LG has a very similar 43 inch for $650 or i might favor this 34 inch curved model
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    Candlestick probability

    The answer is "it depends." Regardless of chart time frame, i do find a probability of the current candle movement, when the previous candle was an engulfing candle as described here ...
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    Why does a stock price that rallies throughout the day and through the night open lower

    Think defense. Bottom can fall out at anytime. Be prepared for "What if."
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    Want to Eliminate The 0.18ms Latency Between The NYSE and Nasdaq?... install a laser

    https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/16/cisco-acquires-ultra-low-latency-networking-specialist-exablaze/
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    Slippage effects on scalping futures..

    Dunno about futures, but scalping stocks and ETFs with market orders, slippage is pretty much determined by daily volume of instrument and order size. I can see better prices when limiting size to 500 shares. At 1000 shares i may or may not notice much change (sometimes will). At 3000, 5000 and...
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    Windows 7

    Do you recommend and use two factor authentication? TD Ameritrade allows you the choice of using two-factor authentication (or multi-factor authentication), which adds another way to verify that you are the owner of your account.
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    Why the fed must keep cutting. Funny monday article

    Kaltbaums perspective http://garykaltbaum.com/the-not-qe-melt/
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    Seeking countertrend indicator to go with my trendline

    Steve, you might like TrendPeriods https://tlc.thinkorswim.com/center/reference/Tech-Indicators/studies-library/T-U/TrendPeriods.html Default settings are 7 & 15 EMA. Ideally, one can often see a change coming before the indicator indicates, but it can be nice to have a backup.
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    Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores

    Somewhat related but seldom seen mentioned ... the TOS platform & charting which i like and use, has 5 different quote settings and the default is maximum delay of 3 seconds. Also available are settings of ... Real-time (no delay) Fast (max delay 1 second) Moderate (max delay 3 seconds) Slow...
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    Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores

    Very interesting. Keep us posted if you do make the leap. More food for thought https://stealth.net/services/internet/dedicated https://onevoiceinc.com/dedicated-internet
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    Charting software with volume based candlesticks

    Maxinger ... Not exactly what you are looking for, but you might like to take a look at https://tlc.thinkorswim.com/center/howToTos/thinkManual/charts/Chart-Modes/Chart-Types/equivolume.html and I traded with Equivolume charts for a short time. I so wanted to find a way to make volume...
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    Has the Fed Guaranteed Hyperinflation? There’s No Turning Back From QE.

    I hope I'm wrong, but i think the US government intends to use hyper inflation to make debt levels a non-factor. Maybe they think a 33% inflation rate for 3 years running will make debt disappear? In Argentina https://www.statista.com/statistics/316750/inflation-rate-in-argentina/ inflation was...
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    Finviz's "Volatility" Formula?

    Click the "Any V" selector icon next to Volatility. The resulting dropdown menu allows you to select a percent range per week or per month (Your choice as to per week or per month) and the available selections vary from ... Over 3% ... to Over 15%.
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