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We had one 50 cal but rarely shot it. Too painful to the shoulder. :p

Of all the guns I've shot, never shot an assault rifle. Not much use for animals. :)

Definitely got some "age" to it. Uncle lived with us when I grew up. Had 2 buildings full of stuffed animals & about 50 guns. This is one of 6 I still have. Brothers & uncles have the rest.

Nothing fancy, just the "hunting" type. :) Elk/deer rifle.

Buying puts will have the same "carry costs" as buying calls. If not you could do an arbitrage trade. Preferred choice would be call spreads with NO premium.

1-Uses much less capital than purchasing underlying & buying puts. End result the same. 2-Simpler set-up than buy underlying & buying puts to protect.

I was referring to a physical bank. Completely different than a broker. If I buy/short the dollar index then I'm long/short the base currency of my brokerage account. If I exchange US$ for Pesos at a physical bank, I'm not short US$. I just have less US$ and more Pesos. I never have to buy...

Brokers are just passing along the interest costs/proceeds to the customer minus a cut for themselves. They're not trying to "entice" any particular trade. Brokers are interested in trading. As I mentioned earlier, the interest amount is so minor relative to the profit/loss of the price movement...

Rather than using options to protect $400K, just purchase DITM calls or call spreads in SPY. Put the remaining 75% in the bank @ 2% (1 yr. CDs) or some other investment. Buying smaller amounts of call spreads in TLT (bonds) or GLD (gold) could also act as some protection for a lower SPY.

The swap (interest) fees are calculated by the broker. MXN has higher interest rates now than the US$ so long USDMXN will cause swap fees. Each broker is a bit different with regards to the fees so need to check the website to see how they calculate the fees. The fees are continuous as long as...

1-Long US$ vs. short MXN will have negative swap fees so you'll pay interest. Broker will deduct from your account. 2-That's not a chart I'd want to be long now IMO. 3-There are multi-year periods in that chart where trend was down. Hope you're patient :-)

If you're looking to swing-trade, then equities trend better than most markets. Moving averages work pretty good for trending markets. Zoom out so your emotions aren't up/down based on every candle change. Create a few rules based upon the MAs. Example: Ribbon above MA = LONG only. Ribbon below...

1-NT Brokerage is just an IB, not a broker. They have partner brokers that are allowed to use NT. They have direct relationship with 2 futures brokers. See website. No opinion about which is better. 2-My issue was just that I didn't like having 2 platforms (TWS & NT) running just to trade. TWS...

Currency ETFs are OK for swing trading or investing. They have a slight lag in performance due to an "expense ratio". If you buy EURUSD forex now you'll have to pay swap fees (not shown in chart) so in the end it's all about the same results as FXE.

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"there is almost nothing useful that does not contain a moving average" o_O "I've lately seen Trendlines described *without* having been derived from Moving Averages I would not want to be seen as part of that [sad] camp." o_O "Retests (of everything!) -- Never heard of this." o_O...

Had an account with IB for about 10 years. Closed it because it was too "painful" using Ninjatrader with IB. Need to keep TWS platform running along with NT platform. Other partners of NT don't require additional platform. Other NT brokers have daytrading margins as low as $500/contract for ES...

1-Haven't watched CNBC in years but employees weren't allowed to hold any individual stocks. 2-Warren is a nice guy, what's wrong with being nice to him in return?

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You have 3 positions: Long 100 shares UL @ 1000 Short 1 Call @ 950 Long 1 Put @ 1000 If all are held to expiration: (UL @ 960) "Long 100 shares" will be sold by "Short 1 Call" "Long 1 Put" with a value of 40 (1000-960 = 40) will be sold .... $4,000. ***You would be short 100 shares (@ 960) if...