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I want to be short, I expect another august 2011. Shorted in the morning but covered for a loss. I still remember the freight train that was June 2011, so just opted for some options instead.

if a broker goes bankrupt due to a banking crisis youre out of luck. the insurance is paid by either government or bank guarantee. but in a banking crisis both lack liquidity.

How do you not know the answer to this question??? I've known it for 3 years or so alrdy.

I usually average down into high conviction longs. It's like bottom fishing. I up my leverage from 3-5 to 30-50.

the gap is widening. how are you gonna pay the debt when relative GDP in 30 years is half of what is is today? interest payments will double tax the budget. even more deficits, culminating into hyperinflation, then depression? or forced austerity leading into a depression...

also daytrading in your pyjamas is not a viable career.:)

Like 10% of republicans vote for him. 5% of population. You are doomed.:p :cool:

If Obama gets relected, he will double national debt from 10 trillion to 20 trillion in 2016. Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion also in 8 years. Sounds to me like there is only a one-party system in the USA.

maybe you haven't noticed but as retail platforms go, TWS is one of the best. Since you think it is not a good platform, maybe most retail platforms are pure garbage. before IB was here in the small european country where I live. there were 6 brokers each offering 6x the commissions than IB...

Ask yourself this: will trading SPY blowup your account? I think not. So will ES blowup your account? Also not. They are one and the same, with the proper leverage. A 20 points move is nothing.

2009 and 2010

Yes, we are headed into a second Great Depression or a third Long Depression. History repeats. That said, I bought the dip in the past few weeks and three times made 20-40 ES points each time. Get it? We are headed into a Depression and I only took three long trades the past few weeks and...

today a trend day +20 ES??? or tomorrow?

Shadowstats is curve fitted stats. For example real unemployment is 16%, but we dont have numbers for real unemployment 100 years ago. Those numbers were also faked.

yup

Took out another long at 1360. The market will bounce, I'm sure.

Long from 80. WTH is happening??? Buy the dip stopped working?

Interesting you want to learn investing when we're at the cusp of the second Great Depression.

If you backtest this on ES at certain times in the past showed premarket runups and intraday rundowns like clockwork for EXTENDED periods. I am not surprised then C could have had the same behaviour. Is this a robust strategy, probably not, because the equity curve showed also period of...

hft doesn't reduce transaction cost. it is at most neglible effect. hft bid and asks change the VWAP that is used by pension funds to be more expensive. so even thoughs the spreads are tighther, the stocks are more expensive. It cancels eachother out. Ask yourself, do HFT play a zero-sum...