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I did solve once a problem by disconnection the coin battery for the BIOS AND reseating the CPU. A pain, but it did reset the BIOS more than just a battery disconnect. FWIW

Ah you are asking the right question! Everything works in normal markets, but the market is not always "normal". There are three situations you need to be concerned with. 1) The short squeeze as you point out. This is pretty easy to deal with. Keep a native order at the exchange, not...

So much agree. Experience matters. I got 15+ years of the same instrument. I have seen it evolve over time as the Open Cry Pit closed, the demise of the "boxcar" and rise of the "mini", the spoofing of DOM, the rise of Euro:USD and drop of volume, the growth of alogs etc. I like to see it...

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: I just started, my yearly "audit" for stability and failure recovery. Updated network drivers (picked up 10ms improvement on the ping to IB central as a benchmark), and will a clean up old backups and images, and then a failure recovery test. Review those...

I don't know about best since the criteria of "Best" is not clear, but this one was a good one imo. Covers the basics so one could understand what the IB Algos seek to do. . I would review the IB Algo offerings as a starting point. Once you understand the concepts, then you would have a...

Correct, If one ever interacted with BillG, you know that he reads everything, often multiple times. So he probably just noted what the portfolio position was, had nothing to do with initiating it, and was amused. He is also extremely competitive. So it would not surprise me, if he would...

Get a wall mount(s). Don't do 1 monitor = 1 stand on the desk. The amazon basics Wall Mounts are better than the Ergotron ones, imo. They hold more weight, cost less and are easy to adjust the tension with the supplied hex key..

When you go overnight is when you officially are a BAD day trader*, by definition. It is the same as using a short time frame, and when it goes against you, you switch to a larger time frame. E.g. 5 min to 30 minute. You will always find some timeframe that can give you justification, aka...

The writing (unsustainability) was there, i.e. on Bloomberg. It was just a matter of when and how. Anyone worth their salt positioned themselves to minimize their exposure and waited. They did not get greedy and get the last gasp. Any when it happened, they had MULTIPLE plans, DETAILED...

Psychology Forum: Thinking that you can trade from a phone is HUBRIS. Get over it and learn to use real tools.

I agree, for experienced people. What I should have added is: "While you are starting out...", which is a good assumption of the OP. Also one could add, that people want to immediately jump to "master-expert" levels without doing the basics and learning the ins and outs first. In this case...

There is another advantage to using an exchange native order. System connection loss. It can happen from you to IB, IB to the exchange. Also when things are disorderly, orders being on the exchange are better because of more reliability, imo. Although it is a very rare case, it does happen...

Suggest you reflect upon this seriously. It seems current culture in vogue is to the least amount of work, with the least amount of resources, as if that somehow makes you "smart". Reflect upon why you want this and if one is being caught up in the "method" de jour. Consider doing the...

Two parts: Audit the details. This lowest level of examining every trade to make sure it is doing what you expect. (The tendency is to think that a system's high level outputs will give an accurate assessment.) Then I would do as DeadDog says, highest level. There is a difference between...

Well then if High% profits is part of the plan, then that is the plan and you do what you need to do to make that plan work. The issue is when you have a setup, and you decide to either skip it (under trade) or go outside of it (over trade). Once you do this, it is hard to tell if the plan is...

Respectfully I would strongly disagree. The reasons are: 1) under trading can be as bad as overtrading. 2) the market does not care about your retail level P/L. 3) You will always give something back. It just needs to be less than what you take. 4) This is trading based on fear of losing. It...

Besides the deep pockets, you are competing against a TEAM who play against other TEAMS. They work all day, day after day, refining their tactics and strategies with decades of institutional knowledge. It is like a spectator jumping into the pro league to play, when they can't even make it to...

Easy come easy go. I have to say the dot com bust had some epic shorts. NTAP, ARBA to name a couple. Made a lot swing trading (short) those after harvesting the investments on the way up.

yeah it is like driving a car on its last leg. You can use it and it will get you there but stay close to home and only make short trips. The problem for newbies, is the temptation to go big after a string of wins and then when they dump, newbies are too large. Or when the dump happens, they...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/sec-influencers-pump-and-dump/index.html Anyone who has experience knows that "asking" for recommendations or "giving" them is for the lemmings. If you want to actually trade, do the work. Federal Court is an ugly place to be a defendant!