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I wouldn’t worry about overfitting relative to a 7-year market. This year’s market is very different from 2015’s market, and you’re trading this year’s market. I rather err on the side of slightly overfitting to current market conditions (and tweaking parameters more often

As others have pointed out: yes, it's possible; no, we can't tell you how, you have to call your broker; and don't do it for tax reasons, because that's misunderstanding tax law.

Can't speak for OP. But the tax/tax rate example seems to point that way.

Agreed. At least use simulator to learn trading platform. You don't want to be fumbling for buttons when you're short even a few micro contracts and the market's running against you.

I completely agree with you, and never really understood the distinction between reading candles and reading indicators. It's all lagging! From the perspective of the trade you want to take, even T&S is lagging -- once the trade happened, it can't happen again. And that's just fine. We have all...

Agreed. I don't understand the tax rationale behind this question on any level, this just being one of those levels. But since you asked the question: for the same reason people write naked options with stop losses and then hold them overnight (where the stop loss can't trigger). I mean...

OP is using taxes and tax rates as a rationale for asking whether there's a way to prevent long ITM options from being executed. It stands to reason that he considers it a taxable event in his trading strategy (i.e., he plans to close out the shares he receives at expiry).

You used taxes as the rationale for asking whether brokers (should) offer this as an option. An "illustrative example" still needs to be logically connectable to the thing it tries to illustrate. In this case, there's no warrant that links your example to your question. But also, why not call...

No, I'm sorry, but just no. Nothing about his post is "technically correct." This is not (as another poster asks) a question about the tax implications of "exercise" vs. "close the contract pre-expiry." OP simply doesn't understand how tax rates work. Which is fine -- taxes are complex -- but...

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Please consult with a tax accountant before making these decisions. Only dollars you make *over* $249.000 would be taxed at 40%.

This is basic, but did you adjust all parameters (stop-loss, profit take levels, whatever you use) accordingly? I.e, by same % as the % by which you scaled up? If *everything* is the same, there shouldn’t be a difference, unless you’re trading really large sizes, or you’re getting killed on...

PTON and HON in my mid-range/swing trading account. The mask guidances that are going to come in the next week or so might push companies like HON and 3M upward, if only for a short time.

It's worth learning even if you don't end up using it for your primary trading. I use a different platform with IB, but once in a while, when the API gateway breaks down or there something odd happening between the non-IB platform and IB, it's good to be able to get into TWS quickly and resolve...

Interesting. I've been experimenting with automated systems for micros, but so far don't have anything that I'm confident in. Can I ask how often your system trades on an average day (totally ballpark ... 1-3 trades or many dozens)? It's one of the areas I haven't been able to find a good middle...

I may have missed this earlier -- you're trading a single contract of Micro S&P?

in the IRS' eyes, it's just being long an ETF. How the ETF calculates its value isn't important.

SK didn't need to implement very strict restrictions because their people are not knee-jerk reaction anti-science/anti-government nut jobs like 40% of the U.S. population. They trust their government, they trust the scientists, they tested broadly early on, and people were self-disciplined...

My concern about that link is that the github repo is 2-3 years old ... does the code still work with modern gmail? But, if you have a reliable way to get the email to a .txt file, what I would do (given my background and setup) is write a python script that checks the folder with email files...

So how do you receive the email? What format are messages stored in on your system? Once you have the file, it’ll be fairly simple to update a csv. You can import to python and use the pandas library, or do it directly in the Unix shell via grep.

Interesting challenge. Email is tricky, because there’s so many protocols to consider. Do you have access to those messages as files on your system? What protocol do you use to receive those emails? What software stores them? Or: where do those emails come from? Maybe tapping into the source —...