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  1. tommcginnis

    Iceberg orders with IB

    I think you mean icecubes, but honestly, I've not heard of people trading that way. Maybe when you start trading in quantities that take an hour or two to clear -- or drop/hike price appreciably -- you might find more accommodating software. Til then, put your icecubes in a glass and take your...
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    China is to cut trade-war tariffs on some goods imported from the US by 50%, From Feb 14

    ...and that bridge over there? See it? Yeah, that one. I'll sell it to ya -- I know the owner, and they're hard up -- they'll take 10¢ on the dollar -- you can turn it around *tomorrow*. ;):cool:
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    Changing Habits

    So you've 'got this', eh Steve-a-reno? Here's another koan for ya,...... "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." You get the last word.....
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    Options limits to buy at bid?

    WHUT? Every now-and-then, scat-man posts some head-rotatingly weird stuff. This is one of those times. Jeeez. :confused::rolleyes:o_O:cool: SHHHHHHHH!:wtf: Apparently, this is a big secret. OMG. o_O
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    Options limits to buy at bid?

    No. You are taking your trading platform's default as "normal." That's like learning to box from watching Rocky movies, where your chin is the spread: you're gonna get *pounded* -- and you're going to deserve it. But *don't* think it's "normal.":confused:
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    Changing Habits

    Egads. • I wonder where you'd put your "releasing past traumas" in Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs.... • "Discipline only lasts so long..." That's beautiful. Poetic. Koan-like! Cash-manifesting, even. Sweeeeet. Here -- I'll give you a freebie: "The way which can be described is not the way."...
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    Traders Guide 2020

    Self-agrandize much? The most popular, universally-utilized technical indicator is nearly five hundred years olde. The concept of a moving average is 25 HUNDRED years olde. Whether you can write or not, you certainly can't trade or research on even the most basic level. As Overnight has...
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    Wide credit spread

    Try it and see. Report back here -- we will read with interest.
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    Build small profis in the morning to take bigger risks later in the day

    A first step in developing a consistent trading method would be to excise the word "winning" from your vocabulary. This includes each form: wins winners winning winnings won.... a systematic trader does not win.
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    After how many losses do you decide you are not following your system?

    After lots of review (many years ago), I settled on 4hr/1min, 2weeks/1hr, and 6mon/1day charts. In the same way, I have performance review points for trades (week; month; YTD; year; 2year) -- each available with a glance. So my system review is near-continuous -- and I couldn't imagine any...
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    What if option buyer exercises early in spread trade.

    ...so you'd end up short[long] 100 shares (assuming an equity call[put] spread) and long 1 call[put].
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    Top 25 books

    Numbers 1 and 3 are worth the read, the rest are trash or worse. Summarizing 1: the (up)trend is your friend. Summarizing 3: 1/3 Down is halfway back. Alexander Elder should be on your list -- his first book. (the others look derivative.)
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    Politicians cost too much to taxpayers and society

    C'mon folks -- *Really*?!?!? Look at this perv's posts in toto: buttermilk is a low-level intern in PLA Unit 61398 just trying to pump his/her way up Poppa Xi's ass with brain befogging posts. He/She posts on ET because there was no room left on WaPo or The Failing New York Times squads...
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    Solved

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    market data on stocks and futures

    Spoken like a true _______________________ :rolleyes: -- well, *something*.....
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    China is to cut trade-war tariffs on some goods imported from the US by 50%, From Feb 14

    This is about the 2020 election: China can't leverage the Popinjay-in-Chief without giving him back some shit now. I "predict" a souring of relations right about Labor Day -- which would work right into a TrumPidiot Agenda for great splashes of meaningless Red, White, and Blue headlines about...
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    market data on stocks and futures

    Knowing which way the 3rd leaf on the second cusp of the fifth cuplet of the 12th sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-branch of the 4th sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-branch of the 1st sub-sub-sub-sub-branch from the 2nd sub-sub-sub-branch of the 2nd sub-sub-branch of the 1st sub-branch of the 3rd branch (due-North...
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    Bernie Maddoff may receive sentence commutation

    If you're unjustly imprisoned/enslaved, death is liberty -- a gold-plated, total-access non-refusable "Fuck You!" card to your tormentors. If you're guilty, death is you dying while never tasting free air again. Bernie will do/say *anything* to not have his last breath taste of incarceration...
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    If you are making 1 MM per year, buy your own damn sandwich

    I am disappointed in y'all! Ross Perot (remember him? A TRUE billionaire, and a TRUE Republican) made a rule that if you'd be fired if you cheated on your wife. WHY?
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    TSLA option writers

    It's double-bagged in two months -- I think the timing can be pretty flexible here.... :D
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