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If you want to see if it's possible to profitably hold leveraged ETFs long term, just load up an ETF screener like etfdb.com and see which ETFs currently have the highest 5y returns. Spoiler:

Gold still within the current intermediate bear trend. The low could be in, though.

Sorry if someone already mentioned it. IB has specific start and stop times for each product for intraday margin: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-futures-fops.php?ex=us&hm=us&rgt=0&rsk=1&pm=0&ot=0&rst=1|0|1|0|1|0|1|0|0|1|0|0|1|0|1|0|1|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|1...

One of this guy's C2 systems got banned recently for unrealistic fills.

Actually the iphone 8 starts at $700

VIX futures have pretty massive liquidity, have you looked at those? You could join in with all the cool kids and sell vol :-) Also, check out far-month eurodollar contracts including the spreads, tons of liquidity there.

CL Lots of vol with small margin requirement.

I would rephrase the thread title to put the focus on personal responsibility instead of making demands of others: I would not purchase any kind of trading education unless the instructor already had some kind of publicly available record showing his or her profitability in the past.

Yeah I'm playing. Currently -$5000 so I don't think I'm gonna win :D Winner gets $1000 I believe.

Read Market Wizards by Schwager to get a general overview of what a successful trader looks like. Most great traders were already successful with whatever their vocation was prior to trading. IMO being a pro gambler is the closest thing to being a pro trader (even though many hate this...

You gotta take leverage into account too when looking at historical volatility %. A 5% move right now in CL would be worth $2,367 per contract. A 5% move in NQ would be $5,932 per contract. This makes sense when you compare the overnight margin requirements for each instrument.

Great setup for a short right now IMO. Or long if it busts through!

*wipes tear from eye* It's beautiful...

He made money off the RSI by putting it in an expensive book and then advertising the shit out of it. Later, he made even more money off doing seminars. http://www.tradersjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=491:an-interview-with-j-welles-wilder&catid=116&Itemid=543...

What are you gonna trade? Stocks? Futures? FX? You should probably be able to calculate this based on your ATS. Personally, I calculate it using a combination of historical maximum drawdown and the exchange's current margin requirements (I'm trading futures).

Hi SteveA, If you're looking for a liquid futures instrument that isn't traded by "algos," I don't think you're gonna find one. The "algos" trade everything, especially futures like CL that are regularly in the top 5 traded futures by volume. With that said, IMO CL is probably as good an...

Not sure about gold miners, but gold looks like it's pretty close to a swing high where it's at right now. If it gets back up to 122 again, might not be a bad idea to go short. We're still in a 6-year bear market for gold IMO. I'm actually long gold futures right now waiting for the signal to...

https://www.barchart.com/futures/most-active#/viewName=technical&orderBy=historicVolatility20d&orderDir=desc

Seems to me that you'd be better off waiting for the next retracement and then buying the dip. Might have to wait another month for that, though. I've lost some money shorting the indices :-)

...and of course I would make a grammatical error when criticizing others for the same :banghead: