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How to see short total and it's history for a security on TWS or from another source? something that show real-time the amount of short over few weeks. Also, where to get the data to know WHO has the short positions? Thanks

Good point. The most important point of this thread is can anyone give a working example which A) makes money and B) is really a hedge. No one can answer this for sure. So I would say hedging is nothing but simply strategy. You may as well buy less to lower your risk or short less to lower your...

Once the stock market crashed the index futures crashed too. You are LATE. This is not hedging.

Absolutely not or else it would be called insurance and be regulated and so many other things.

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Thanks. - Link for MT4 or MT5 download? - Is the platform all free or there is one subscription that covers all data feed for streaming prices for Forex and stocks? eSignal charges for tick data $395+ per month for Forex alone for example.

Thanks. 1- So if the broker software allows it then in MT4/MT5 software this can be done as well. If broker doesn't allow it on their own software then MT4 and MT5 can't do it either. Am I getting that right? 2- Side question: Why use MT4 / MT5 and not just broker provided software. I mean...

You know it's a slow day when Bloomberg IBKR TV doesn't show anything but antique coins. Where every (without fail?!) coin is said, "really, this old coin should not exist in this condition" >>> implying in this good condition :p But USD is going down.

Socialist? What does a philosophy have to do with business? Demand and supply not philosophies. Other gauges than philosophies are driving markets.

This is interesting. Yes, I can't have both a short and a long position of same instrument on IBKR. If I take the opposite position it simply liquidates my other position. IBKR keeps only one account so it just liquidates positions as soon as money is there. Even if I deposit USD it applies it...

Why this thread exists. I see 21,600 minutes sticks.

Maybe time to fine-tune the strategy :strong:

Thanks for the explanation. Very well explained. What world of unthoughtful programmers do you live in? IBKR allows you to put through any order any time anyhow you want. They just execute when they match. You said "hedging" so I got interested. IBKR also has a hedge feature but really you can...

Duh. Or else you will be taking more and more risk.

Well put. Do we miss Trump?! I think the sideways cycles are getting longer and longer which is an indication of a stable market. What an English person might call bullocks. I think USD will loose a bit more ground for the new stimulus money (if that doesn't go into poor's pockets). If it...

Things seem to have quieted down for USD. Is this a Biden - not colorful - effect or something else going going these few days? Anyone has reason for volatility to pick up soon?

No one has given you a good example so far I believe. I don't think anyone on this forum really knows how to. I have asked this question before to get practical answers but I did not get any. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/posts/5266497/ My take, hedging is nothing but: take less risk with...

I don't understand a single thing you said in this reply. Can you please explain the first part and the second part without using the MT jargons and in layman's terms.

Most of the answers given to you show the wrong or hard way to do this. Your question is simple. The simple most forward answer is as Sig suggested, open an IB (Interactive Brokers) account as a US citizen and transfer your money to them and you can buy any and all the major currencies. Don't...