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Again: that cyan color is TWS telling you something. Look it up. Be an informed chart user. Again: TWS is cludgy anyway, but the kind of sluggishness you describe is commonly a computer issue cured by decreasing video demand, reserving more computer power to TWS, decreasing cuteness factors at...

Yeah yeah yeah -- they're our cousins and all that. But I see that swarm skittering to and fro across the plaza, and I'm imagining a good-sized wok with fresh sesame oil and onions and garlic nearby, and the phrase "Tastes like chicken!" coming to mind. Break out the curry! :D Tom's...

Do you not tire from being so wrong? Just that one phrase right there... Have you ever given the slightest thought about comparing that imaginative bit o' fancy to reality over the past 15-20 years. Y'know -- the ones that, since Clinton, have shown scary-low inflation and ever-broadening...

I suspect anyone with trades on those underlyings got the same (form of) communiqué. Probably won't see anything in your account unless you had one wild hare in there, which you haven't mentioned, so probably not. Wouldn't worry.

Agreed, but post #20 cracked me up... https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/my-account-wiped-out-any-recourse.341511/page-2#post-5034295

Thus back to your circular argument that prompted d08's 17th post in this thread. Congratulations on being consistent in your irrationality, at least. But on the macro level (which is your unrecognized starting point), you are still arguing that a nation that can't afford its debt payments...

4. Powell wields FED_FOMC liquidity tools for Q.E.CoVid-19...

My read is a tastytradeKoolAid-swallowing oldster who put a confident $60k chunk of the ol' retirement nest-egg into "easy income" positions, specifically shut down the horrid thought of being disturbed while slathering sun creme in Cañcun, and now can't face the reality of what those actions...

The people who bought the puts that you sold "would think the Saudis would drop their price..." I don't mean to rub your nose in anything, but you seem bent on avoiding the responsibility by which your mouse clicks brought all that cool-looking cash into your account. So, a story: 5 years ago...

3. President-for-Life Xi visited Wuhan in person. 4. ....

We're now triggered off at ~2575, down 900 points from the ATH 3 weeks ago. What has that done for the [ever-maligned] p/e? S&P p/e is now ~19, compared to a historic average of <15, or a post-1990 average of ~20. The S&P CAPE (Shiller p/e) is now ~24, compared to a historic average of <17, or a...

Really! Genius! :rolleyes: Uh-ohhhh. But what happens when we turn it around? "When debtors default, recessions occur." Ohhhhhh crap! :wtf: When Nicholas Cage makes a movie, suicides go up. I can prove it. (You can look it up.) Clue. When you conflate micro and macro, strange things...

Your fate was sealed the moment you closed up your computer leaving naked puts to be unwatched.

True -- IB's charting is not fancy, and *is* cludgy. Granted. But that cyan candle is telling you something. It is not a bug. An illiquid instrument, "free" data gaps, bid-ask outside of norms -- could be a number of things. Sit down with the ChartTrader webinar and sit through it -- you will...

Great thread, everyone. Nothing to add but chuckles. Thanks. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

We're now triggered off at ~2575, down 900 points from the ATH 3 weeks ago. What has that done for the [ever-maligned] p/e? S&P p/e is now ~19, compared to a historic average of <15, or a post-1990 average of ~20. The S&P CAPE (Shiller p/e) is now ~24, compared to a historic average of <17, or a...

Fail. More conflation of the micro and the macro; more neologisms and abuse of economic terms. When you can take your concepts and put them into a clean algebra, you'll be getting somewhere.

Not news to anyone, bu the news for you is: it's not part of their authorizing statute, and is relatively new, and takes risky behavior and puts it on the taxpayer. To paraphrase an old protest t-shirt, "Risk shifting is not healthy for an economy and other living things." Whattttt?!?!? You...

• Physical Delivery is a real thing -- various traders relate stories of when they had to face the disposition of 8 gabillion bushels of feed corn with a 30-day warning....! But brokers have restrictions in place to prevent retail positions that would result in physical delivery orders. That...

The idea you're looking for is the underlying instrument. For equity options it's easy: it's the stock itself. For commodity futures, it's a future contract for a lot of that commodity :) (watch out for the term "physical delivery"!) or for a cash difference. For indexes, it's either a future...