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You can lever huge size using futures spreads (SPAN margin). If your broker doesn't give you the margin discounts, you need to open an account with an FCM that does.

Had to look up anchored VWAP. I always have an area chart with VWAP and st. dev VWAP bands that starts at the NYSE open, just for reference. But, I'm only watching index futures and spreads. Here's the rationale. The overnight session has a fraction of the liquidity as the cash session and...

Doesn't matter what I think. As far as I'm concerned everything in the US government is rigged. The entire thing is rotten to the core. It's unrecoverable. I will never endorse either party in it's current form. What's more, I doubt the voters, in aggregate, are even capable of making...

This quote makes it pretty clear. This isn't about one of Trump's tweets. There's a new cold war and US-Sino relations are going hot. It's time big tech gets outed for enabling CCP propaganda, disinformation, and censorship just so they can maintain access to the Chinese markets. Chinese gov...

I think it's actually a way for him get leverage on them against the shit they're doing for the Chinese gov. All the tech bitches are in bed with the CCP.

They got some balls to censor the fucking POTUS like that.

You can send an order to close all positions. There is a menu for it. Just click Account -> Trade -> Close All Positions There is a menu after that to set details, and then a final confirmation window. You can also bind it to a key using hotkeys.

Probably not. Biden should be in a senior home. The guy is a joke. He is a literal 'fall guy' and I'm almost 100% sure this is intentional. The fix is in.

It's just a matter of time. There's even rumors that satoshi was NSA/CIA/DOD pentagon...

Basically, I think of tick charts as a way to graph the action in the order book. It is showing you visually what is happening in the price ladder as each level gets traded. That and it is the only real option for fast charting I know of in ThinkorSwim (the charts in tos aggregate to minute...

So let's say I put tick charts all over my workstation. ES tick charts using 5 tick, 20 tick, 40 tick, all of it. Then I put indicators all over the charts. Averages, VWAP, bands, and more. Is there some kind of edge in it? Could it work in the overnight session?

Interest rate futures - ZN, ZB, UB US index futures - ES, NQ, YM Rate and index spreads trade on technicals, and they interact with the liquidity in the outrights. There might be opportunities for you in the cash market, trading liquid issues, sectors, etc. FX is tough since you never know...

Must be like herding cats. I have a math degree and the thought of teaching a class makes me shudder. Now, American students....? Not a chance.

Easier said than done.

Not with everybody wearing masks 24/7 and "six feet apart at all times" orders being broadcast over the store loudspeakers. This isn't the America we grew up in. Real estate of all kinds is unsustainable when nothing can turn profits like in the go-go years. At some point, if rents, lease...

Hi. I'm just a lowly retail with net worth in the six figure range. The delta1 desks are making markets in return swaps and so that is influencing price discovery in things like index spreads. The spreads are somewhat illiquid during off hours thru GLOBEX, but stay active in a smaller range...

Well, I've been doing some research again, and it's lead me back to the prime brokers (imagine that...) So, this thread isn't really about vanilla equity vol, though maybe related. It's more a structured products thing. I'm just trying to get an intuition for who I'm trading with (and against)...

One hand washes the other.

Good point. Averaging down without some kind of risk limit is not trading, it's gambling. Also, you better understand martingale if this is your go to method.

The reason is that tp, sl, and entry are part of every trade, and they are the simplest way to manage risk. It's like learning algebra before you start calculus. Risk management is complicated. Hedge ratios, credit spreads, greeks, rate differentials.... If they tried to teach risk...