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I've never felt comfortable with any strategy that depends on a discontinuity with unpredictable results. Will the event cause the market to jump a little, a lot or not at all? Will the jump be up or down? Will the event cause a suspension of trading? Not all of these will be good for you and...

Doesn't it likely depend on your trading strategy? For me, the answer is none at all. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"

You want different rules, seek a different employor. It's never a good thing to knowingly violate your rules of employment in the hope that you will not be caught. Getting terminated could be the least of your worries. Worse, it is morally corrupting. __________________ Author - "These...

Never was very fond of Hope as a trading plan. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"

With all the users and all the strategies undergoing rapid development, I find it unlikely that the "system" will identify and exploit them. Turning a strategy into a robot increases the chances of being spotted. I still believe that hiding in plain sight works well, even with computers...

When to exit a trade has fascinated me since I read the book It's When You Sell That Counts by Donald Cassidy. I have the first edition published in 1994. I notice it is now in its third edition. It not only fascinates me but challenges me as well. __________________ Author - "These Seven...

It seems to me that holding time as a determinant of risk is highly dependent on the options trading strategy in use. Sometimes time is your friend. When to stop trading is a very worthy topic. Many of the traders I know are insufficiently self-aware to know if they are in any of the...

Billy Williams' first sentence in his article sets the tone for this very confusing article. I'm afraid it prejudiced me against the rest of the article. .

I find it difficult to draw any serious conclusions from a study of only 30 accounts. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"

Perhaps you are unaware of the man who coined the phrase. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"

You have just come to the correct conclusion on the limitations of paper trading. I consider paper trading a prototype phase. Here I learn the mechanics of executing the trades necessary to my strategy. Once I have this understood, I enter the pre-production phase, i.e. trading for small money...

Ask them for a better rate. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"

I hope I'm not reading more into your question than you meant. I generally enter a new options spread the Monday after expiration for the month with 59 days left. I aim for an Iron Condor but enter both spreads as separate trades. Sometimes one side does not offer the right risk/reward...

The overnight futures market seem to consider our election results a big yawn.

Prodigio has far more capability than I have been able to utilize. Perhaps my needs are pretty simple compared to yours. Other than Prodigio and yours, what others do you consider more robust and tested and work better?

"Never Confuse Genius With a Bull Market"

I don't know if thousand and thousands want to spend tens of thousands on investing (and trading?) education. I could be wrong. Now that ThinkOrSwim is part of TD Ameritrade, I'm beginning to have my doubts that they TOS will be able to maintain their dynamic and bad-boy image. I've already...

And yet the futures market show little change at this moment. Will have to check again before the market opens tomorrow.

I attended one of their introductory seminars for several hundred dollars. The content was underwhelming and much of the time was spent trying to get you to sign up for their big ticket education programs. For the money I paid I expected more training whereas their content was focused on...

I don't know how things have changed since they became part of the TD Ameritrade family. I thought that much of the legal stuff was settled before the merger.