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  1. cafeole

    Short everything

    Where were you during this years flu epidemic? "So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."
  2. cafeole

    AMP alternative ?

    Didn't know there was difference.
  3. cafeole

    AMP alternative ?

    AMP does not have a platform, they work with a myriad of platform providers. I use SierraCharts for free. I love that they have so many options.
  4. cafeole

    USA! USA! USA! Winning the coronavirus race

    Check the other countries! China shut down the country. This is not a communist country and will never be a communist country, Dems be damned.
  5. cafeole

    USA! USA! USA! Winning the coronavirus race

    Pct of population? Looks good to me. You are comparing apples to oranges. Obviously you are slanting the data for your own agenda.
  6. cafeole

    Moral choices of the government (poll)

    Total BS!
  7. cafeole

    Moral choices of the government (poll)

    Bingo. Got to justify their existence.
  8. cafeole

    Moral choices of the government (poll)

    The US people have always accepted a large number of preventable deaths every year. An estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The first is...
  9. cafeole

    AMP raises overnights to 100% of SPAN.

    AMP Futures email this morning. "Due to the Extreme Market Conditions, we have decided to maintain Exchange Maintenance Margin for BOTH Day & Overnight Sessions. This will remain in effect until we send out notice that is has changed. "
  10. cafeole

    AMP raises overnights to 100% of SPAN.

    I received an email last week that they have doubled the daytrade margins.
  11. cafeole

    New Here

    If that is true, then it makes my point. Options are very complicated and not suitable to absolute beginners.
  12. cafeole

    New Here

    It sounds like you are comparing options trading to daytrading futures and making a LOT of assumptions on how to trade them.
  13. cafeole

    New Here

    I am not saying futures are better than options, just better for beginners. There is one thing they have in common - the market. It will take the same amount of time to learn the market, then add the amount of time to learn options. I started out with options. It takes a while. With options you...
  14. cafeole

    New Here

    For the absolute beginner, futures trading is WAY better than options.
  15. cafeole

    New Here

    If you are absolutely new to trading, options is not the first thing I would try. Options trading can be very complicated. For example, I know someone who bought call options on a stock before earning, not looking closely at the IV. The stock went up but he lost money because the IV went down. I...
  16. cafeole

    How long can it take to complete Combine Step 1 and 2?

    If you already have a winning strategy, then don't worry about the monthly fee, just trade until you get funded. These combines are for qualifying to get funded, not for trying out unproven strategies. You can do that on simulated trading on various platforms. You do not need the added time...
  17. cafeole

    Billicare trade journey: from 5K to 250K

    The problem I have the NT is that you have to buy a lease or lifetime license to get bracket orders. That is why I use SierraCharts
  18. cafeole

    Billicare trade journey: from 5K to 250K

    I had problems with dropped data feed with Rithmic and Sierra. I use CQG now.
  19. cafeole

    Hiding performance from the broker/exchange

    When I first started trading the feeling was brokers took the opposite side of every retail trader thinking that most retail traders lose.
  20. cafeole

    Initial margins for CME

    Thanks Matt.
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