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Less than what you are missing is what you're getting, and from where are you getting it[?]... The post to which you responded was a laud thrown to someone who'd posted an exceptional (as it turns out) run of 6-point days. There was no exposition on scalping, just a recognition of vastly...

Hmmmmm. "Thank you for so often and so generously taking the other side of my trades." Yeah. Yeah. That says it. That does it. That does it jus' fine.

If you're aiming for points and nabbing 6+ a day? You're doing a crap-ton-load better than me. I'm leaning back into scalping again -- I've made index option spreads The Big Thing for the past year, and have things nearly where I want them, so it's time to return to the scalping fold...

How do you mean, "studied volume"??

NOT always a useful option. IB will incorporate CBOE's SPAN into retail accounts' margin requirements WITHOUT WARNING ~12pm, and again at ~12am. This will SEVERELY SCREW your available dollars AND your ability to trade. After the most recent FOMC announcement, I got severely tagged in ES...

What sort of time frame are you trading, and for what sort of move are you hunting? If you are hunting for points or 00:30:00 or 01:00:00 trades, I have no thoughts. (Except to question your sanity, which if you've been here since '06 and made 1500 posts, you're apparently doing pretty...

1) loss from long stock is unlimited (to $0) 2) write credit spreads to guarantee small wins and limit absolute losses. 3) write spreads above and below (but well away from) the same underlying, to double the use of your available margin capital (since, if you are hit on puts below the market...

If you open a VIX chart and then open Chart Parameters and check everything related to volatility, your result will show a sub-chart of IV% v HV% over time. (Yes -- a very helpful little beast! [in a 6-month/1day candle world]) I don't really do equities much, so I don't know if this would...

"Freelance tools"? Is that an ET tab somewhere? (I'm not a regular visitor, if you can't tell from my post count)....

"What he said."

I certainly hope that all those who are dissatisfied with IB get off of it as quickly as possible. :D

ThinkOrSwim has a neat-looking thing they call Spread Hacker -- I trade on IB and built the same thing, but it requires snap-shot .csv scrapes from Quote Monitor pages -- which involves a "delay" of 2-3 minutes while you're importing data.

"How much time you got?" No, not just for an answer, but more in terms of trade duration -- *which* "day" are you trading? In GREEK terms, is your expected gain off delta larger than your *known* loss off theta? "Ahhhh!"

What? WHAT?!? A thumb's-up reply on EliteTrader?!?!? W.T.F.??? (Oh, I see. It's a holiday. A anomaly, and not to be expected in the future.)

Meaning no disrespect, but you're either not married, or are married to the kind of woman the rest of us could only dream about. Go find yer woman and make passionate passionate love to her right now.

Thank you. And hat's off to all 'doers'....

I agree. And got the same "corrupt file, rebuild your jts subdir" advice. Frankly, it was about time for me to update my navigational knowledge of the platform, and since I'd taken snapshots of my primary trading screens, I'm ok with that, but BOY I am sure glad I didn't have a major...

The short way is just to repeat pages and delete what you wish. I'm sure there is a better way, but in the meantime, you need to get work done, right?

EFFECT=/= CAUSE! You're correct about stable prices being a sign of a rich (and stable) market, but price movement (and hence, stability as well) is a function of an interplay of many things -- one of the greatest being a (functionally) infinite number of buyers and sellers. Imposing a...

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