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up 5K for 2nd week of July

stress? what stress? do you suffer from stress when playing online poker? follow the rule. fold when you have a bad hand. do not make calls. do not push. let the cards in your hand tell you what is coming. you play probability and do the right thing. trading should be simple. when there is...

down 1K. on the wrong side of the mkt all day long...

+4650 for first week of July. MTM PnL. njrookie

bone: I disagree. I have traded native future calendar spreads with IB. It works fine as "exchange directed spread". A separate question: should I worry about smaller FCM steal or piggyback my spread strategies? I am more comfortable with IB in that regard. Another question: any...

at a calmars ratio of 50, sellingindexvol66 can make back the 11% DD in a week or two. note the YTD return is already approaching 100%. it comes down to comfort level, which comes with experience/confidence. an experienced trader can lengthen the holding period a bit to enhance return and...

In my view anytime you are using historical data - price or volume - to make trading decisions, you are doing technical analysis. Call it whatever you like, price action (support, resistance), indicators (SMA, EMA, MACD), or time series analysis (AR, ARMA, GARCH, COINTEGRATION), etc. In short...

I am happy because my goal is modest. Left is SP500. Mine is on the right. +32% njrookie

I only look at MTM numbers personally. sometime it is spooky especially if one is trading stuff with large bid-offer spread since MTM PnL is based on close final print. For a PnL over a slightly longer period, say weekly or monthly, those noises get smoothed away. Keep in mind that your...

one needs to ask the question that how much you will lose if the market opens 10% gap down tomorrow morning at opening. the only way to offset a short convex position is to long something also with convex payoff. however that will eliminate the premium associated with time decay.

not sure what happened b/w 4-4:15 PM. +1300 njrookie

d08, If I got your return YTD, I will be very very happy. njrookie

d08, congrats and welcome back! we were worried about you. njrookie

a tough day for the market, but a very easy day for with-trend traders. +1600 njrookie _____________________________________ A thousand dollars a day keep the boss away. _____________________________________

+600. give back some earlier gains when market turned around 2:30 PM. tomorrow will be an interesting day. _____________________________________ A thousand dollars a day keep the boss away. _____________________________________

The thread is getting too quiet. Just to keep it alive. +1400 njrookie _____________________________________ A thousand dollars a day keep the boss away. _____________________________________

Hi the1, I would like some clarification about LLC or S-corp setup if you do not mind. Would getting a w-2 triggering collection of social security/medicare tax? njrookie

Dear IB Rep, It is great to have you in the forum. Is it possible for IB to support REL orders for commodity spread orders? It is OK to me for the order to sit on IB's server and let IB monitors the exchange native spread. njrookie

Actually this can be shown rather easily using IB port analyst.

these are rather impressive numbers. what is the acct size?