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    I Discovered the Reason I Lose Money Trading.

    The last 10 hours was the future when I wrote that. If you wasted that future, it was your choice to make.
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    I Discovered the Reason I Lose Money Trading.

    You're in good company, most people think they wasted their youth. That was then, this is now. The pertinent question is are you going to waste your future?
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    Percentage % of Get-Rich-Quick members on ET?

    I thought "Get-Rich-Quick was another forum, and the OP wondered how many members of this forum were also members of the GRQ forum. Since it says "Percentage % of Get-Rich-Quick members" Am I wrong? I wanted to join.
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    Robinhood suicide story -- unclear on Margin issues

    This is an example, I don't know the position the young man was in, but I do know how options work. Look right now, at yahoo finance, put in AMZN and click on options. scroll down to puts. OK, using the yahoo numbers for last price, at the very end of the day, suppose you were to think amzn was...
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    Over Writing, or, Unbalanced Covered Calls

    You got to have some cash available to sell those 2 contracts naked. Suppose they discover the cure for old age, and the stock gaps to a thousand dollars a share. How you going to hand over the other 200 shares you've obligated yourself to?
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    Cryptocurrencies that have a use case

    Some sellers of services and/or products that are illegal in some jurisdictions have gone almost completely to crypto. Meanwhile, some of the crypto exchanges have gone to some kind of weird rule about you make a deposit, you wait a week before you can use it, making the average consumer who...
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    UGLD USLV DGLD DSLV UGAZ DGAZ ZIV VIIX TVIX soon to be delisted

    TVIX is a perfect example of what's wrong with leveraged ETF's, a subject that comes up a lot. TVIX. Splits are as follows: 12/21/2012 1 for 10 08/30/2013 1 for 10 06/23/2015 1 for 10 08/09/2016 1 for 25 03/16/2017 1 for 10 06/08/2018 1 for 10 12/02/2019 1 for 10 All reverse...
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    Anyone buying short ETF's ?

    Logic would dictate that shorting the leveraged short etf's like SQQQ during an up move would pay better than going long during a selloff. Conversely, if there are leveraged long etf's like TQQQ, you may be better off shorting them during a selloff. The easiest thing to do would look at them and...
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    Question about AMP Futures fees

    Those numbers under these headings: <1,000 Contracts 1,001 - 4,999 Contracts 5,000 - 9,999Contracts >10,000Contracts Are the total amount you pay, per side, including everything. Where it says 0.39, that means 39 cents. How can that confuse you? It's like a phone bill. Lot of stuff, including...
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    Question about AMP Futures fees

    Tiddlywinks is right. Prices listed on this page: https://portal.ampclearing.com/account/commissionQuote.aspx There is a list, and at the top of the list you check "Flat Rate"(for over $10k deposit) or "Volume-Tiered" then check on the data feed and the platform, and all the prices are right...
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    Live Daily Trading the Open chatroom $7 trial

    Ahh, see, I tried to send you a private conversation with some revelations that would probably be of a great deal of use to you, but I get the notation The following error occurred: Participants: You may not start a conversation with the following recipients: KCalhoun. Then I had to wonder why...
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    Live Daily Trading the Open chatroom $7 trial

    I don't want you to think I'm trolling you, because I'm not. But, what's with the 2 women in the back row with the statement hats? what is their statement? Are they objecting to being objectified, or what? I guess it's the middle row, not back row.
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    Discipline is the first you should practice

    Have you tried fetlife? You'd be surprised at how many of them are into discipline.
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    3 trades in 5 days for day trading question and is Forex 24 hour trading.

    Well, Mr Foot, if you want to satisfy an urge for fast and furious action, open an AMP account and burn through a few thousand learning index futures trading. There are lots of people here who will be glad to tell you all they know about the subject and no doubt there are bazillions of tutorials...
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    Rookie Trader Racked Up $700K In Debt

    Obviously the young man had underlying issues. Of all the things that seem important and insurmountable, money just isn't that important, especially to a young person. Did he think somebody was going to come kill him about the money, like in a gangster movie? Is it possible that a college...
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    Who/Why trade options at such extreme value.

    In March, the stock traded below $18. So, your 27 put was $9+ in the money, and there was a general feeling, at that time, that airlines were in a world of trouble. so, a $2 premium for 6 months of time. not a bad deal.
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    Wirecard CEO Resigns After Banks Say Missing $2 Billion Doesn’t Exist

    Never cancel your insurance the day before you set the kitchen on fire. I'm not sure if I think it was the CEO, someone in the organization, or the banks. Or a combination of any/all of the above. No options though, would be a winner in one direction or the other.
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    Jekyll generating a blog

    I always wonder if they're talking about Jekyll and Hyde, or Hekyll and Jekyll. I'm a huge Hekyll and Jekyll fan. Not so much Jekyll and Hyde. Was once married to a woman with a split personality, and she accused me of cheating on her with her "other self" Of course it was true, hard to Hyde...
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    Tradex Forex Journal

    OK, just trying to keep up. So, you're talking about being +22 for the day, which is good, are you still down 66 or something like that? Maybe you can put a box at the bottom of your post saying something like Day 4 +xx for the day - XX for the total.
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    Tradex Forex Journal

    that's when the acid kicked in.
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