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I opened one with them this thursday. I like their future margin, they seems they give intra-day future margin whether overnight or intra-day. I did not get it why IB did not give me intra-day margin in overnight (evening/night) trading. I may move some future trading to them. higher...

can you predict earthquake? no, you can observe other animal's behavior, some animals often know earthquake before human being, such as mice,snake, maybe they know better than us about the earth. in trading, I am a small retail trader, I closely monitor those monsters, those deep in...

I read through QUANTS. then I realized I can beat the street with the simplest weapon: buy OTMs. when I read through those guys how they price options using brownian movement randon walk. I know those guys did not get the market. I know nothing about premimum, delta, beta, greek.....what I...

any one have tried? give us some experience about this attractive offer. is there any contingency about opening a new account with them. for example, after 60days, you decide to leave since there is no free meal, why stay. then they may say: you need stay here at leat another 60days...

ceo retired. i remeber a stock, the name i forget, CEO died, the stock jumped 500%. if those short sellers get squeezed above 21.5, kind to fun to squeeze them more

do not gamble gamble is a sure way to lose gamble is a sure way to lose intelligence trading is not a casiono machine it is an intelligent game. not a mental game. try to be brave is no use. try to be coward cauition is no use. most people are mislead by a belief: if bet enough...

people will never have faith in probability or uncertainity. if you have faith in something, that thing must be certain. it is fruitless to try faith. when I look back to my trades, sometimes I found I hesitate, since I know that may be a trap. it turns out my hesitation is right. but...

stock market is not a casino machince. after you crack dealer's probability, you beat dealers or the house. since those machines are built based on well known bell-curve gausian distribution modelling. if you apply statistics, like count cards, rember what dealt, you know what probility of...

if you play poke, you know, the more you observe, the more patient you are, the winning certainity is greatly improved. particulaly in last several rounds, since you rembered all cards delt from your members or opponents, you almost certain what others have. most people say the top/bottom...

me too, I sold 23ish, too early, I just wish I hang another day, doubel again. nflx short squeeze too hard. I think some big guys must lose lot. and some big guys must win big big. I bought HLF at 25 to 26, sold 37ish, too early. HLF is a rare case. late I shorted it, lost some profits...

IB capped cancelletion fee, but I found its commisiion fee suddenly jumped like NFLX. normally 100lot costs me 100~200bucks, but now sometimes greatly exceed this number. and it varies time from time, strike to strike, instrument to instrument. I am wondering why the same strike today I need...

congraltuate to those OTM buyers. I bought 50lot of 125 calls at 0.1 to 0.3, sold at 23~24. I just wish I bought 30000lot. so I can become Warren Buffet style investor. no more day trading, no more overnight swing trading. congratulations OTM is the best trading vehichle

step 1: a right attitude: objective view toward the market and yourself. accept what is. clold blooded. just like cold hard facts. do not outsmart those clod hard facts. dog eats shit, though you hate it, but no matter how you hate it, you need accept "dog eats shit". if you can not, then you...

yes, market is out of our control, we do not know what price next 5minutes/seconds/days. but we can be sure, 100% sure: in next 5seconds or 5 days or 5 weeks, there are three results: red bar, green bar, or flat. or in your betting, either lose, or win, or B/E. I know 100% sure. that is...

observe the market first. then think, judge, bet. do not come here seek advice. the best teacher is the market itself. I am a speculator. I just occasionally need the chart, daily chart. I do not use indicators, casually for confirmation of my observation and judgement. I sniff...

looks you are smart, we all morons. yes, I get several margin calls in the past, but I just ignored their warning. late I made big money.there is no single margin call I lost money. margin is just old style bucket shop's trick. so I switched to options. or I trade cash account, buy...

I am the first one to welcome aapl short sellers. I am a short seller in AAPL. I am holding 300shares (sold from 680). plus 480 put options this week, also next week for the earning surprise (big gap down there). I like this report. more bad news will keep flushing out. aapl is rotten...

in the past, I traded sweet crude CL, NG, ES, did lots of day trading. but I found those vehicles are not suitable any more. I anbandoned them. of course, when they show some behaviors I like, I occasionally trade them, but not day trade. I want to ride a winner as hard as I can. the big...

I am a contrarian. most things on table are obvious to everyone. so there is no sense to focus on. I look both ways, just like cross a street. of course, if you want to make money. the only way is you stand in the right side of the market. whether you trade systematically or not, if you...

FSLR 32 put psx 50 put bac 11.5 put I kind of top picker. but I know those rocket stars are falling apart. I am kind of both direction hitter. I am able to not marry to my own opinions. emotional detach to a trend. if a trend shows crack, I want to be the first person to eat crab...