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Anyone has access to Bloomberg? Mrs. Bloomberg? :D

The VIX peaked at (~80) Christmas, 2008, and then fell at a fairly fuzzy fashion until it bottomed (~15) at the end of 1Q09. You might want to compare that action to what the market was doing in that time period, before you get all jizzy about volatility in 2020. :wtf::rolleyes::cool:

"Ouch!" https://johnlothiannews.com/not-the-ronin-death-watch/

The VIX -- as an agglomeration of available expiries and individual strikes -- makes such a handy tool for estimating "future realized volatility" :D that it was turned from an idea to a paper to a commissioned work group to an index to a traded entity. Can't beat that for chops. But it...

That's the idea. If people knew how much IB spent on customer service for accounts that run themselves into futures trouble, versus how much might be potentially *made* from such accounts, this thread would not exist. IB used to have opening account minimums of $25k. That went away. What do...

OMG, you're right! 40 years ago, I was a terrified freshman with a crush on gorgeous blond in the next dorm room. ("Yay!" for co-ed dorms...) She introduced me to John Prine, of whom I've been a fan ever since. But yeah -- even though I've barely watched Pawn Stars, JP and "señor" -- Wow...

You insult gamblers. :cool:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-prine-covid-19-symptoms-974909/ :confused::fistbump::thumbsup::confused::wtf::fistbump::thumbsup::confused::wtf::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

No, there's seriously not. What you're seeking (an empirically-demonstrable trigger with signal>noise) is dependent on having a stable data set -- which comes from a stable phenomena. This is not possible in finance/economics, because nearly all data stem from a time-dependent set of events...

First, sell your long put, ASAP. Second, do your homework. 10+ years ago, IB had some of the best, non-bullshit webinars around. (Not 100%, but pretty close.) I just went and checked for you and yes, there is still a webinar page. It's chockful of source material on TWS, Mosaic, phone stuff...

Articles like this should belong in a Compendium Of Bogus Analysis. This one could lead the way, combining the oft-observed miss-attribution of cause vis effect, with an extra-strong dose of spurious correlation, but then :wtf: the real topper of gross mathematical abuse. :banghead: All of...

Wrong day for "T/A"........ Jus' sayin'....... :D

I apologize to everyone for the decidedly "off" post, but sometimes 'not responding' to a troll sends the wrong message to all concerned. 'What it's about' is a person with a practiced lack of self-awareness of deep personal issues, on flagrant display through the history of their ET posts. It...

Really. *That's* your "PR"? Sad. Let me know when you're up for an 8-hour run.

Spending $trillions to "buy" lives...... Let's do some boring ol' math(es) a second.....

And there's DouchBaggio The Gutless Poop-stick, shining in like shit in sunlight, to contribute :confused: another great bit of his/her "thoughts." :vomit: So, sign in under your own name yet, Gutless? Out any transvestites recently? You are a piece of work, dude. What's your latest...

I was 95% verticals for 5-7 years, and only dabbled in calendars -- more for education than income. But this was at VIXs of <10-15 :vomit:, not the 2020 environment. So my variance radar is set to • whether • how much/which side • where, specifically Being able to target like that helped...

I think your criticism is fair, though not quite right. Over the opening months of 2020, I have just read way too many posts begging for ET responses to fix bad trades or to program code or to provide The Perfect Indicator -- all the while evidencing absolutely no homework themselves -- not so...

In a sentence, you are looking for an email-reading interface, between a signal generator's emails, and (presumably) a broker's API to their/your direct-market-access account? You wish to take received emails as instructions to a trading/market interface, yes? FWIW, the instructions would be...