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Oh, how I know how it feels. They left me in the room with him for as long as I wanted, and I wasn't done crying for at least 5 minutes. It took me another couple of minutes to gather myself and thank the staff before I left.

No problem at all. Again, welcome to ET. We're a family of sorts. We bicker nonsensically most of the time, but we are still here to help each other.

It's been over 3 years since my lab passed away. I will never forget how horrible the day was when he had to be put down. He was 15, and I had him for 13 years. I love dogs, but I have been reluctant to get another one, because I was avoiding the pain of losing him/her. But I got a FB...

That's exactly why we used to do it. It is strictly forbidden now. That being said, you can hold a stock in an IRA or 401k for the long term, and short it as a day trader, and that's not an issue. If your long term account is not a retirement account, It's honestly getting wishy washy, and...

Ok, I guess there are a few different ways to use "box" nowadays. I was referring to shorting in one account and being long in another. And I originally thought that's what the OP was getting at.

Hello again Robert. Isn't shorting the box illegal nowadays? Or am I missing something? We used to do it all of the time in the olden days to avoid the uptick rule.

Thanks, but I'm not concerned about it. Mine is a pure prop account. Everything will be fine at 4AM tomorrow (I'm up pretty early every day, but not that early). If you're in a position and you're trying to put orders in on a Saturday, you probably shouldn't be trading prop. Maybe you are...

But I get your point. I've kind of become set in my old ways. Lol. Hope you are doing well Zdreg.

Not at my firm. Can't do anything until 4AM Monday.

Oh, for crying out loud. I thought he was trying to send a stop-limit order for some reason. I've only been at this for 25 years. Maybe another 5, and I'll be able to give advice on basic order entry. But even though he has GTC set on his platform, he wanted to send a DAY order according to...

Probably house rules. I tried in my prop account just out of curiosity, and it wouldn't let me send any orders at all. Just got an error message. But prop is different from retail.

1 post? Welcome to ET. I don't use tradezero, but just out of curiosity, does it allow you enter a price if you change the order type to market? There is a TZ rep who is on here occasionally. I'm sure he'll see this and will be able to help.

It used to be automated mean reversion (fading volume spikes). Now it's just very short term basic technical analysis on the crazy stocks of the day, while paying attention to longer term support an resistance levels.

Good day today on the put side today, Dustin? I don't to assume so just because the /NQ had such a rough day, but I hope it was good.

https://www.trade-ideas.com/ I've been using them for years.

Great answer. Also, temporary volume spikes are extremely common right now because everyone thinks they might be jumping on the next meme stock. When the stock starts coming back down they have to bail, and the options sellers see this coming, so the supply for calls on the sell side are high...

I was with a firm many years ago where trailing stops were absolutely forbidden. For good reason. I will never use one again.

A balance between the two has worked for me over the last 20 years. Edit: Yes I've been at this for 25, but I really really sucked for the first 5.

He can't help himself. But he actually asked some tough but fair questions in my strategy building thread.

Another question, Dustin. Are you mainly concentrating on long puts based on relative weakness while avoiding the call side? It would make sense because of implied volatility crush if you try to catch a breakout or a bounce. Or am I over thinking it?