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    Lets build a trading system

    Let's write a program that gives you a green light every time the close is higher than the 5sma etc., call it "E-mini-S&P-WizeTrade" and sell it for $2000 per copy!
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    weirdest physical tics while trading :)

    I started being profitable when the cold and clammy feeling on my hands disappeared.
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    Swing trading

    What is really going on?
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    Option market value

    Never mind.
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    Scalping e-minis

    I would like to see the coordinate transformation that makes this growth appear exponential.
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    small lots with ib

    That would be a new one: Buy me one twentieth of a QQQ Sep02 21 Put at the market!
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    small lots with ib

    Isn't the SEC fee included in the $1 commission on a sale?
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    Opening IB account. Trade PLan?

    MSFT? really? What do you know that I don't know?
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    Opening IB account. Trade PLan?

    Just be sure you can afford to lose your entire investment or at least more than half of it. This outcome is more likely than not. A very interesting alternative would be savings bonds. You can buy them online at www.savingsbonds.gov, and if you hold them for 17 years, they are guaranteed...
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    What is your long term return/year?

    I agree. We're not in this for the money, right?
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    Mecanicaly Trading the QQQ's

    What do you consider "advanced mathematics"? Anything that contains the words "standard deviation"? or "average"?
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    Traders beware island scam

    You have a point there. Maybe the monkeys at Island are morons rather than crooks. But it's probably just a normal American business: A dirty, dull business model implemented by an imbecil who happens to have a little cash and to be sufficiently insensitive, with lots of even dumber, but a...
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    Spread Question using Interactive Brokers

    doji, are you sure you know how options work? If QQQ is above 22 in 3 weeks, you will be assigned -100 QQQ per contract of Sep 22 Calls you are short.
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    Spread Question using Interactive Brokers

    Your margin requirement will be the difference between the strike prices and your debit (or credit) will be applied to your cash balance when entering the position. After that, your maximum risk is the difference between the strikes.
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    Spread Question using Interactive Brokers

    That depends on how you define "max risk be worked out to be ".
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    For everyone here at Elite Trader.

    Screw the long weekend! We are not hedge fund managers. We enjoy trading.
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    What is your long term return/year?

    I think on this forum, where people AVERAGE around 5 ES points per contract per day, the choices should be more like 0%-1,000,000,000,000,000% 1,000,000,000,000,000%-1,000,000,000,000,000,000% 1,000,000,000,000,000,000%-1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% >1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000%...
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    Post your prediction for the Dow!

    High of 10,500 by March Major low (probably THE bottom) in about a year to 18 months. My best guess for the price would probably be 6300, but honestly I can't confine it to any narrower range than "somewhere between 5000 and 8000.
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    For everyone here at Elite Trader.

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