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IBKR (Pro) sent me only one T5008 which makes sense when I look through it. I did not sell any stock, but I did buy and sell some options last year. However, when SimpleTax attempts to PULL in my T5008 from the CRA, it tries to pull in 12 different T5008s from IBKR! For a third of these, it...

As a weeeee little boy, I still remember day after day the TV was full of the horror of the market-crash of 87. I had long forgotten most of that, until recently I was watching a podcast by TastyTrade, and Sosnoff was talking about how skew didn't occur until the crash of 1987. Since then it...

Since we have attracted the attention of official WRITERs in this... one hint I want to lay... there definitely should be a lot of interest in reading books on these DEFUNCT prop-trading firms. I'm surprised not many books have been written on the subject. Definitely would be a lot of people...

This may be laughable by some... but I found some Lin Tso books at a thrift store and couldn't resist. Even though it's a big trip down memory lane for some (lots of these written in the 70s), I am finding them a joy to read. Lots of real-life examples... of course you'll have to get used to...

I have personally dug back going as far as 20+ years for Canadian prop firms. And what I discovered is there are so many names that popped up with lots of activity only to just go bust and fade away within a few years. Of all the organizations I looked at, there is only one name that seems to...

Well, since we had discussed this one so much recently, I guess it was time for the cover of the FIRST book... I will probably read it for the 3'rd time before 2021 is up. Thought it was decent the last two times, but I still have a lot to master... p.s. Waiting for Karen the SuperTrader's...

Kinda bad timing for these ETFs this week... very bad timing.

I don't mean to act harsh, but if you have to ask something as primitive as this... you probably shouldn't be doing options on it. But... maybe this was sarcasm. Still trying to figure that out. In any case, I'm certainly glad I didn't purchase the underly.

I haven't got through Education of a Speculator yet... I read the beginning a while ago, and thought to myself... fuck why would I ever put my money in his fund? He spent the first chapter I think talking about being an old man and being far too leveraged and STUCK in a bad/risky position in the...

Yup, I also have Cordier's other book as well. I read it twice, but I don't know shit about futures. Regardless, I did like it. And....it used to be called THE BOOK on OPTIONS by many others, which is why people were so surprised when he blew up with them. To be fair, Niederhoffer blew up his...

Years later, he moved to investments in Mongolia, and that fund is down like 98%. Holy fuck! Well, at least his clients didn't end up with NEGATIVE equity...

This is my favorite, the only catch is publication was withdrawn right after the hedgefund blew up :(

Haha! Vortex is a website I came across a few months ago while searching across Canada for prop-firms... This is the first thread I've come across where someone was an X-Vortex trader. Curious, if you liked it, why did you quit with them?

The House Financial Services Committee is examining how an apparent flood of retail trading drove certain stocks to extreme highs, squeezing hedge funds like Melvin that had bet against those shares. What a fucking joke. They SHOULD be examing how do we allow brokers/agents to carry on...

The question is, how many people do you wish to restrict from a service, simply because a few will win a Darwinian award?

Let's make this simple... How many billionaires has SMB under their alumni to date? And by that I mean graduates, not the one collecting 3K fees.

So... since we are referring to past-tense here... I am naturally curious about what caused this gravy-train to end?

Skimming through this long thread, I am confused why this is an 'elite trader' forum, yet we are posting vids by very questionable self-declared youtube gurus? Isn't Kirk one of many who never posts his true trading statements? I remember a thing a while back with past floor traders and...

Really? And it's JUST that easy-peasy? Is that what IBKR did during their screw-up when retail-traders blew up their accounts when WTI went to negative rates? Is that what IBKR did during their screw-up when retail-traders fell into the Swiss-Franc shit-show and blew up their accounts? Is...

This one definitely was going to the stratosphere until YOU KNOW WHO decided to rig the free markets and force it into a one-way sell off. Sort of unfair to make fun of the bagholders when the rules were CHANGED in the middle of play. This was basically a black-swan that showed up...