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Interactive: high margins, mediocre rates, low reliability:

Of course, the rich brokers are cleaning up in this market. I think the term "discount broker" today is an oxymoron.

Interactive Brokers has reached new ridiculous heights for margin requirements intraday: 1 ES - $18,500 1 NQ - $24,800 Gotta be the highest in the industry. This pushes everyone to trade with ever-so-expense E-Micro contracts. Pretty shrewd, no ?

Thanks for that. Do you recall what the fees were for.... 1) trading platform 2) execution/routing 3) connection/data What I've discovered is that the fees in this business are just incredible. Everyone is in your pocket making it really tough for short term or high frequency retail traders.

Exactly. And all of this just indicates the number of Trump-haters out there.....namely the medical establishment, females, and even foreign ministers like Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, and Angela Merkel. I doubt Trump was really aware of the fervor of this hate.

Interesting timing for the announcement.....right after the election results came in.

Well, at least Long Term Capital Management and Lehman Brothers weren't focused on risk.....LOL !

This post was rejected on Marketwatch.com. We now have censorship by the media....just another step towards communism.

You know that for certain ? I know of few money managers who put all of their eggs in one basket...so to speak. What we are trying to do here is build a set of systems with a goal of attaining an efficient frontier. This is very similar to managing a portfolio of stocks and bonds...

The micros are great for testing strategies and systems and they are OK for longer-term trading. However, for scalping and intraday trading with over 40 R/T's per day, they really suck....due to the commissions which are anywhere from 100% to 400% higher than the regular contract for the same...

This is very important to understand and embrace. Each instrument changes almost every trading day.....it morphs. The challenge is to create a way to measure the PA in these markets and then to adjust your bet size accordingly. Is the market..... 1) trending 2) chopping 3) flat-lining (this...

Trump's lead in Georgia down to 463 votes. That's insanely close of a race. EDIT: New polling result indicates Biden now ahead !

Thanks for that. I discovered they tried to get Multicharts to integrate with their service via API, but MC declined as they were already tied to more expensive execution/routing platforms like Rithmic and CQG.

Prospects of Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Elizabeth Warren running the country gives me the hivvy-jivvy's. Chicks in complete control...with all of the irrationality. White males over 40 now relegated to a status below that of the LGBTQ community. WMLDM - a new slogan: White Male Lives...

Absolutely....with the thinking comes those biases. Also, you shouldn't care about the stimulus, the economy, the dollar, etc. unless you are trading longer term. Stick with your technicals and your PA patterns. Watch that win rate closely.

Nevada’s Big-City Results Coming Thursday Nevada won’t provide any new unofficial election results from its major urban areas until roughly noon or later New York time on Thursday, based on announcements from the secretary of state’s office and county officials. That leaves a nail-biting race in...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffetts-favorite-indicator-margin-levels-and-technicals-agree-this-stock-market-could-be-in-trouble-11604512872?mod=home-page The only problem is that Buffett has been wrong lately.

Naw....Trump is done politically.....the female vote killed him...and they'll do it again. Women never forget....LOL.

I think is wrong. ES/NQ continue to trade till 3:15 CT, then halt from 3:15p.m. - 3:30p.m, then continue from 3:30pm till 4:00 pm CT. Next sesssion begins at 5:00 pm CT.