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still holding, 4680 perhaps

I read as that guy spent 65m as debit spread. I am pretty sure 100 points spread can’t net credit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/one-trader-wagered-65-million-on-stock-rebound-into-holiday While U.S. stocks fell Tuesday ahead of what’s expected to be a hawkish Federal Reserve policy meeting, one investor just bet $65 million on a quick market rebound. The trade saw...

the one above is a real house and the second one is rendering, just saying...

it is the same logic, more money in the account and therefore trade bigger the size. margin only comes in play if one trades a lot daily to take advantage of the leverage.

why not a large ipad?

I have 4 brokerage platforms, each one is memory hog. Not saying I watch all 4 but ram is cheap and why not

Just max out my ram to 128GB, I figured if I am doing this for serious fun, I may just spend some dough to get serious.

if you sit on a half mill account, hats to you.

long 4612

capital preservation my friend. i had lost over 6 figures in ibkr in es and nq when i first started, mostly got liquidated and didn't take profit even when i should have. now i am happy with daily DOLLAR target. 1 point drawdown for 35 contracts would scare you a bit.

total points for the day, i scale back to 2-5 contracts per entry since mid november. want to keep my cash warm for the holiday season at least.

35 pts on e and 43 pts on nq out of the gate, mostly done for the day. i am not buying the dip yet. fib 50% is 4614 would be my prefer entry. let's see. whole sales price rises 9.6%, i guess double digit print is in the card.

This means you lost money? On average cost of 4702?

Cftc agreed on this?

mark zero

they sent margin call emails? how come they just liquidated my positions automatically.

luckily got out at 4680, merely 2 points from 4678 entry in the later morning. dropping before the market close, doesn't look very good tomorrow. will test 4600 before wednesday.

Carson Block is a one trick pony. I followed him religiously for several years and he front ran his clients and there were long of large funds betting against his positions. I never make any money from his short list, perhaps I don't have big enough wallet and got squeezed out. So as Kyle Bass...

staying in cash, it is not a bounce until wall street confirms fed's timetable.