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It should have been exceptional for most people. A few that made the bet that it would go down were indeed caught flat-footed. Same system rarely works perpetually. Greed is the biggest enemy.

SIPC only covers part of it. the rest is open for debate and whether additional insurance is made available. This is one reason to hold accounts in big named houses so "too big to fail" kicks in and automatically ensures some sort of protection. All securities are likely protected as there is...

There may be broker specific rules. In general you have three days to flip the underlying security. If it is cash account then it is "free riding". If you have margin and > 25K in the account, you probably dont need to worry as long as you are aware of the consequences of drawing into your...

This must be a fake Mark. Looks like the real one is sitting on cash.

Rumor has it that a CNBC famed trader did it on the trading floor in an exchange.

With the FED providing unreal backstops mkt is on a ventilator to bet on inverse especially TVIX. Past two attempts to go long on TVIX didn't work well in my favor. With the exception of sdow none of the inverses work for me. For some reason udow sdow combo has been working very well. Past 2...

Go thru the journals and they make a good bed time reading. You have to weed thru the useful ones patiently cuz there will be a lot of trash and goodies. If you want to be a day trader follow the trend. Economy and it's due consideration however valuable it may be is really irrelevant. You can...

When you have decided to short the inverse why you wouldn't go long on the related opposite. In this case TQQQ. I am not sure but most brokers don't allow it due to the drawdown for retail investors.

You wrote a bot with an entry but not a exit strategy?

Impressed. Next is to roll your normal trading style into code and backtest.

Sorry didn't see that. For snapshots you will typically wait until ticksnapshotend is received.

I don't code in Python. Here is what ALI expects you to do. Say you have a list of tickets you want market data in a file. Connect and validate errors. Get acct summary. For each one of the ticker in the list build a contract and register with reqmktdata. Tickprice / tickstring callbacks will...

Hate GILD hype. Had to take a loss since the news this morning. Probably made the mistake of jumping in right after the halt.

TVIX and SVXY are only for Calhoun look spikes and not for faint hearted. I will stick with TQQQ and Spy.

Did you print how many times tickprice was entered?

I don't do Python but you queue up with multiple reqmktdata for the items you want and the call back receives data. App.run is in a infinite loop. You wd ideally have threads implementing the framework. For example you can have a queue to which you queue the securities from the main. Build a...

Combination of NS designation and a strike adjustment will be done after the split.

Pure imagination. I was a quant developer at a investment bank. We had access to backend data but if you read data from production you will need to provide explanation. Prior to joining we had to disclose all investments. We had a toll free no to contact before we can sell anything. We could not...

They certainly have better things to do.

Why wouldn't you talk to a CAP and pay him 100 or 200 ? For this year you can stash up to 57K in SEP IRA. Other deductions may depend on whether you go thru std deductions or itemized. State hardly matters since you have to work on fed.