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  1. tommcginnis

    How did the market do at the last major snow storm?

    "Dang! *Numbers!*"
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    Long Strangles Anyone?

    "Time keeps on tickin' tickin' tickin' into the fu-ture......."
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    How did the market do at the last major snow storm?

    There are a thousand reasons for Pekelo's hypothesis to be rejected. *Rational* reasons. Technologically up-to-date reasons. Reasons that resonate with current events, political outlooks, etc etc. Still, on too many days to be random, if I can construct a story that sez Bif and Muffy have...
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    Seven Traits that I Believe are Required for Active Investors to Win in the Long Term

    Since everyone else seems to be busy this morning (scrapping away ice, no doubt), I'll go ahead and point out that {1,2,6} and {4,5,7} are analogous (and therefore, redundant), while 3 and 6 are entirely at odds (and therefore, inconsistent). A bit of editing might provide a set in which the...
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    What merits a like on ET?

    speedo said, "Tom. Tom m'boy. Seriously. *Seriously*. DO. YOU. CARE." Tom looked. He gawked. He drooled slightly and had to audibly slurp his own spit. He looked down quickly, scuffing his shoes. He looked at her again, and then back down. His chest heaved slightly -- a murmured sound came out...
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    What merits a like on ET?

    A bottle red, with brunette eyebrows? Ehhhhhh! Ehhhhhhh!!! {looking harder} Ehhhhh-hhhh!
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    Rate hike effects?

    Okay, well, ....... first things first..... *when* is that rate hike expected to drop?
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    Its so True...

    I know four pilots who also trade. Each has said that they would no more trade without prior sim trading than they would fly without prior sim flying. If it's good enough for NASA, or the USN, or, you know, the USAF USMC, and Army Air...... And Delta and [blahblahblah]...... well, I *guess*...
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    Are we on the verge of a Trade war?

    I'll even confess my own tactic: I work as hard as anything to figure out a fair position for both sides, and enumerate what that position is based upon. Then I go *to* that fair number, and plant my flag. If you want to do business, "Good." If you don't wish to do business at a fair price, then...
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    Are we on the verge of a Trade war?

    Absolutely. As a trustee of my undergraduate college, I was in a board meeting chaired by the CEO of Sentry Insurance. He was upset -- we were bumping up against the t-off time he'd called for the company golf course. He let us know that we *had* to make that time, and that we weren't going to...
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    Its so True...

    Kinda funny how the bile in this sort of thread always comes from those who oppose papertrading -- something which no one has ever forced them to do.
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    What merits a like on ET?

    Likes are for ------- Posts that I wish I'd written. (wish there was a SuperLike, or a Like² or something...) Posts that I *would*have* written, but hey, you saved me the trouble... Posts that made me chuckle, or think, made me want to mutter "Hear! Hear!" like a Brit parliamentary scene...
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    Unregistered California investment advisors can't charge fees at IB?

    Hit 65 materials off of eBay -- the material will be trivial (and is more directed at your learning *vocabulary*) -- and "updates" are triviality^2......
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    How to get detailed trade stats from IB/TWS?

    It would be good if you could impress potential respondents with a list of tables you've created from TWS data, or from Act. Mgt., or hours of webinars you've watched from IB......
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    The S&P has topped

    Drank my own Kool-Aid. Saw good volume and an declining TRIN and an inclining TICK, and a (fat, lately) vol of 11.5+, and sold top-side while the VIX-ing was good. Nottttt so sure after the fact, though, since it kept going a couple of points into positive territory, including after-hours. Did...
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    Ideal Account Size for New / Developing Day Trader

    First off, you've already shown that you have "emotional (and/) or disciplinary issues" by not being able to issue or stay with the trades you've developed thus far. And you *hope* that by raising the stakes, focus and staying power will result. Well, if "self-knowledge" means anything, then...
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    The S&P has topped

    Nah! (The first part...) Not so long as we continue to sink (in price, and climb in volume) as soon as Europe closes. That's the DAX floating us. Oi! Well (with another look at the mkt), it's 1500ET, so if we don't continue that post-1400 swoon, I'd say you're right. The last hour of this past...
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    How to leg into a no loss Iron condor

    Just for clarity, it's not really us that determines buying or selling -- it's an artifact of the construction of the platform on which we're trading + the method of constructing the combination. For my own [tiny, little] brain, it's just a dissonance that I don't need, to be working "negative"...
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    Need advice buying a new workstation

    Good advice already here, but here's my bit: If electronics are going to go, they're going to go quickly, or they're going to go after a long while. (With appropriate exceptions for environmental smoke, dust/hair/dander, humidity.) If that's the case, and your stuff is still cooking after a...
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    April 21 $41 puts are 53¢. That'd get you in with a bang. $42s are $1.00. If that's where you wish to go, it could be worse than having $1 in your pocket. (And what the hey: $43 calls are 25¢. Long the call, short the put, call it a day.)
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