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I remember this post. You have to actually read it yourself because although he did say something like what he says does match the statements, I feel like there was almost something left out. I'm not saying this following thing is the case, but if you have two accounts, one which is...

As George said, this is like QE, even though Powell said there won't be anymore QE.

So after @bone said that the repo rates spiking is nothing new, I decided to do some research. Turns out this spike in September was a huge anomaly. First chart shows the past 6 months with some good granularity. Next chart shows the past 5 years. And lastly, all the way back to 1996...

And I asked what did the FED do about it at the time? If your answer is nothing, then my question is why are they doing something about it now? If traders would hedge against it before, as you say, why does the FED need into inject billions of dollars this time around?

So its fair to say that the spike meant there was a problem, and all the money the FED is injecting is them concealing it. So now we just have to make sure nobody gets wind of it???

But I'm sure the market fixed the problem itself. Here, the FED had to inject cash and continues to do. I'm sure you know more about this than I do, so is this case not different? Once again, as George point out, first the FED said it was going to provide overnight cash, then it went out to a...

So there really is a problem then? You don't tell a guy on the brink of a heart attack that everything is fine with his heart as long as he doesn't exert himself, or frankly even move, and just lays in bed all day. I think at this stage, nobody is going to believe that the authorities have it...

But how does this explain the spike in rates that lasted for a couple of days? And why is there no cash available all of a sudden? This story goes back to September and as George points out, its not getting better. Either they are trying to paper over something, or they have stealthily had to...

So other than seeing the headlines and glancing over the stuff when it started happening back in September, I didn't think much of it. Then I read an article on WolfStreet, and in the comments section, someone stated that Powell had to recapture the repo market because the higher rates might...

Just to throw a wrench in your thinking, there was post made yesterday by @comagnum where he linked to a video on youtube. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/this-financial-markets-bubble-is-different-is-it-not.338194/page-2#post-4969494 Now the video he linked isn't what I'm getting at...

I kind of tend to agree. As an analogy, if you look back a few hundred years, based on the artwork and paintings of that era, fat chicks seemed to be what most women aspired to look like. They were the "hot" girl of that time. Now, in this new era, its the skinny girl who most guys want to...

But recently I believe even the FED has been saying that low interest rates are actually hurting more than helping. I think this rise in equities has been the only saving grace, because at least these funds are getting their necessary yield there. But if interest rates stay this low for much...

This part isn't quite right. No broker provides this data. Its the platform that puts this together. Now I might be wrong on the intricate details, but as far as I know, all the data coming in is simply an entry which contains the time stamp, the price, the volume, and whether this trade...

At the same time, I think nobody every thought that interest rates could be so low for so long. At this stage, I don't think anyone can put together a logical scenario for how they can ever go back again to a historical average, which is lets say about 6%. Now of course maybe there might be a...

If making $200 per day was easy, then just adding another contract would be the easiest way to double that to $400. If you're pushing past the $200 level by trying to capture more ticks, I can see why you would have difficulty. Sometimes, those ticks just aren't there. Now adding another...

And this is a perfect example of why I stopped looking at CD. Don't get me wrong, sometimes when something doesn't work like it should, using it as an "opposite" can be made to work. But in my humble, taken as my "at face value" opinion, what I see towards the end is orders hitting the ASK...

Perhaps this is a good time to share this quote and link. "The SEC fined the NYSE and its parent NYSE Euronext, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange ICE, -1.47% , in 2012 for violating Regulation NMS over an extended period of time beginning in 2008. The NYSE sent trade prices and details...

Over the past 2 years though, making ATHs hasn't really been that spectacular. Yes, 2016 and 2017 was good, but for 2018 and 2019, each ATH has been met with some selling, and serious selling in a couple of cases. Note at 1, it broke the high, then pullback, then higher, but then a severe...

Once again, none of this you have used for your live trading. Dude, your live trading results are stellar, and impossible really to maintain in my opinion. Every version of a stop has pros and cons. I like fixed stops cause it makes the math easy for stats, no thinking involved, gets you out...

I see on my post I goofed a bit when I mentioned 33 points on the NQ chart, but clearly that is ticks, not points. At any rate, I converted the ticks/points to a dollar value. Since you said for the new account you would tighten up the stop to $100, I then went looking for trades where it...