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    Can one strategy work "most of the time" in any market condition?

    buy & hold SPX, you'll consistently beat most hedge funds, CTAs/CPOs, almost all quant funds, and Fund of Funds. I'd say that's "fairly well"
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    S&P 500 4468.00

    Why is this place filled with Asian witch doctors lately? Have we moved on from TA superstition to random Asian Round Numbers now?
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    It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record

    so none of the other pollutants besides CO2 is bad anymore? lol
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    Food Shortages?

    only guys i know talking bout food shortage are cbot bean/corn longs who re now offside, hoping for a rally even though we re getting close to the seasonal harvest selloff...
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    AGs all jumped today at 12:00 est

    Which grains are you short? Average entry prices and size? My quants will be able to help, and tell you exactly how much you're offside vs. fair values.
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    For Those Successful ET Members: Did You Have A Mentor?

    I had mentored close to 10 interns/new hires at the last fund I worked at. About 2 of them ended up doing OK, after about a year or so. Most of them fail, because they think they know everything just because they got a PhD, and usually come crawling back when they lose $, but by then we've...
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    POLL: Do you use margin?

    oh all the time, sometimes twice a day!
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    Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader

    Brandt is a puzzle. He allegedly made money so he may know a thing or 2 associated with actual trades, yet his tweets and book content is full of conventional, useless ideas around TA, as if he wants to throw people off. I remember in 2020 he tweeted that cbot corn could go as low as $1.50...
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    Crude drops, just bought SCO premkt

    Just curious can you share your source for crowd sentiment? I just looked up twitter, news sentiment, and COT managed money/ small spec positions for both wti and brent, all these data have retail, funds net long or at least net bullish.
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    Crude drops, just bought SCO premkt

    Is this your personal opinion or is it the crowd sentiment currently that oil may reach above 100?
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    The real reason options are pushing meme stocks into the stratosphere

    Can you just paraphrase your point so I don't have to click on the potentially malware infested link?
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    Trading options @ expiration.

    I've read 1 of his books about a decade ago, he seems to lack experience from what I remember. not much of the content was applicable for real trades.
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    Crushing your dreams about trading

    Why what? I'm not "Enchanted" like you Tim, can't read minds :D
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    The myth of volume as a leading indicator of price direction...

    "Binance"... you're using data from a bucket shop?
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    Crushing your dreams about trading

    "algorithmic" retail traders, lol
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    Which way? Energy

    if only they mentioned this when it was cheap...
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    What is your most profitable trading strategy?

    OMG me too, we have so much in common!!
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    Algo-friendly CFD prop? and transaction costs

    CFDs are for bucket shop customers/victims...
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    CL short term price bias with quantamental approach

    don't know. I used to work as a quant supporting a physical trader, and this was mostly what we did, as a part of big checklist.
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    CL short term price bias with quantamental approach

    Your opinion is appreciated. Thanks.
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