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You mean you are stopping listening to "God" ;)

Probably like most business. They fail in the first 18 months from lack of capital. So be well capitalized. Not so much so you can take large positions or large risks, BUT so you can learn (paper trade and Test, Test, Test) and have money to "pay yourself", while you protect your capital for...

I'm with LF. Custom Excel with automation. The customizing is key to making it worthwhile to improve your monthly P/L relative to risk. The automation makes it easy to use. Just make sure you have a development plan for what you want. It is like designing real software. Excel and VBA are...

E-mini S&P 500 Futures Contract Specs - CME Group Go to the source not a forum. Then as others suggest check your broker. Also note, the difference between day and overnight is about 25% margin requirement. Also there is an initial and a maintenance margin. When you switch over to...

All emotional issues. Paper Up, Live Down. Par. Just a guess but your paper trading is probably not that disciplined. Trade paper with absolute discipline, then try live. That is what paper is good for. Paper is Bad for a "free pass" to try things or risks that you would not take live...

I think any intelligent person who is eye candy and knows enough to be dangerous, can be a pundit. Think of all the deceptive 1/4 truths one could spin to those greedy for information for easy money. Now with the internet anyone can be a pundit. It is just another form of (financial)...

Figured this out. On the startup, under "more" there is a time setting. it was set wrong after the update. I guess it thought that the west coast is really an island in the south pacific.

My friend uses it to find options opportunities. He does make money consistently. He also makes money, he says way more, on the tips I give him. That being said, he does not know how to read charts and is HIGHLY reliant on others. Thus if the type of trading style they present matches...

Economic Calendar (briefing.com)

There is only one certainty. Price will go up, down, sideways, or halt. So if you can react to the situation in front of you and trade accordingly, you are going to do fine. Knowing how to trade in each situation and transition from each to each is the only certainty worth knowing. The...

Hi B, I can tell you this about IB and documentation. It is incomplete and not intended to be complete. That is why you have paper trading. Setup your trade tactics in such a way that you want them to work, and they test them on paper. Tweak until you get a satisfactory set of trade order...

Yes of course. Daily will sometimes tell you the turning points, e.g. Look at a good time sampling and make a judgement call. Just because you have additional data does not mean it is all actionable. That is where your skill comes in, knowing what is noise and what is not.

Sorry should have been more clear. As long as you are running HDMI 2.0 or higher it is very similar, but a lot of laptops are stuck at HDMI 1.4. I don't think there is any CPU-GPU performance issue. On a side note, I have seen several monitors that claim higher refresh rates, but don't look...

It is important to fully understand Mushin (aka Wu-hsin) and what it takes to get there. It is a common western misunderstanding akin to "zen". It is important to know about Tzu Jan and Wu Wei. Anyone can check it out. Love Google.

Psychologically, consider thinking of it like driving because it takes effort-concentration. You can drive in the snow in the dark, with good tires and wipers for a couple of hours no problem. 14 hours and no breaks is probably going to cause a crash. So just trade within your time frame...

Apologies to any that got upset or otherwise did not get the April 1 post.

Not sure if this made national news and I don't trade these instruments but thought it might be entertaining... Cody Easterday pleads guilty to scamming $244 million for fake cows | KOMO (komonews.com)

Against the tide and after hours margin requirements are 30% more. Talk about creating anxiety going into the close. And getting "Hwang'ed out to dry" Happy April 1 everyone.

SF, No just a normal trading day clipping points like coupons. I think the last time I did something like that was last century and even then no so bad. I think you can get multiple calls. IB will auto liquidate just enough as needed to keep you in compliance as the market steam rolls you...

You are running 64 bit excel right? Resource monitor is your friend. The AMDs CPUS are running faster than Intel right now, especially in multi thread. You need to consider how each program is using multiple threads. Some do not. Multithreaded recalculation in Excel | Microsoft Docs As for...