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Forget the charts. The economic and political environment of today is totally different from 1983. The US had double digit interest rates back then, the cold war and nuclear arms race was still in full force, China wasn't a major economic player and - apart from the arms race and the risk of...

You can trust the calendar regarding scheduled econ number and earnings releases. So if the calendar says there are no more important news releases for the day which might have a heavy impact on the market, this is usually the case. However, there is always a risk of unscheduled news hitting...

Don't forget that there a people who have systematic approach or a framework within they operate. So, it's possible that there simply was no signal or whatever which allowed them to go long. Maybe they even look at the markets in a completely different way than you do. Yes, this may seem stupid...

Right. Had the market dropped further, it would be quite easy to present a bunch of reasons why this was supposed to happen. But I agree with i960 that getting short at around 10:30 am would not have been a smart move. At this time it was pretty clear that the market wanted to move higher for...

Yeah, seems that almost everyone shorted at the top at went long at the bottom. ;-)

It doesn't work this way.

I went short the YM after the open, betting on a further meltdown. When the market accelerated a bit to the downside but couldn't break the support, I moved my stop very close. Got out with a minimal loss. However, I completely missed the move to the upside.

Because only the paranoid survive. ;-)

Try this: http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/think-you-can-predict-a-stock-price-based-on-charts-try-this-simulation-based-on-real-historical-pr.294585/

I think it still has some merit, however it is overly complex in relation to its performance. Simple, very long term(!) moving average crossovers (say, 50-100 days for the fast and 200-400 days for the slow line) will generate similar entry/exit signals and yield pretty similar results - i.e. a...

No, naked short selling is then you sell shares without borrowing them first. This is - at least in some countries - possible because there is a time difference between the short sale and the actual settlement, i.e. the "delivery" of the shares to the buyer. When shorting naked, you use this...

No, you borrow the shares from your broker. This is done automatically when you sell short. However, there is no guarantee that you can borrow (and thus sell short) every stock at every time, because the prerequisite for this is that the broker has the stock to borrow in its inventory. But with...

Hi guys, I have been a long time member and trader but post very seldom here. But well, it's weekend, so not start a thread for a change? If you want to participate in this thread, you should have at least a few years of real money trading under the hood and preferably made a net profit over...

Isolated the bug yesterday. Quotes stalled in 946 if there was also an time & sales window with the corresponding ticker running. Issue has been resolved by IB today.

Just updated Java to 1.7_67. As expected, problem persists. YM quotes freeze a few seconds after starting up TWS. On desktop and with current TWS 946 only.

Have the same problem today. Quotes on YM Dec 14 are freeze a few seconds after starting TWS. However, this only happens with TWS 946.2 (the current version), old version 936.9 works fine. And it only happens on my desktop computer, notebook also works fine (even with 946.2). Java on both(!)...

The UNIX and OS X Version are the same. If you download the manual installation file, you will see that the file offered on the Mac download page is exactly the same as the one on the UNIX download page.

Two new bugs in 936.9n (OS X / Unix Version): After updating Java to 1.7.0_45 (or the newer 1.7.0_51, for that matter) on OS X, the 'periods' setting of an indicator sometimes (often) gets stuck - the input field is no longer clickable, thus it is impossible to enter a new value. Only...

Also +1 for Linux Mint. Simplest Linux out there.