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The overnight initial margins on Interactive Brokers for ES are getting pretty high, relatively speaking -- $8000+ per contract right now Anyone switched from Interactive Brokers to TradeStation? I'm thinking about it, with TradeStation's overnight initial around $4600 per contract for ES (I...

do we know what winston peters thinks is target fair value for the kiwi?

wow, ok that was a fast retracement https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-13/bitcoin-plunges-29-from-record-high-as-civil-war-intensifies?utm_content=markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-markets

lol, what's he going to manage....1 MILLION dollars??

yea maybe cme should just allow 24/7 trading for all markets, this being a new era now that would be fun, traders need to trade and money has to be made

wow, didn't realize 200k is currently enough to move bitcoin, intl market and all that i'm waiting for futures to come out, it'd be good if they have 10x leverage, also the centralized liquidity

interesting lead, what kind of leverage are u talking about?

fictional characters, Lawrence, not real actors, there're plenty of those in the biz already

lol, if lotr why not...Elrond, he'll compound ur family's money for 5000+ years, and he only charges 1.5 & 20

i'm going with charles xavier, because professor x can use his powers to directly read / control the mind of others in the markets maybe forrest gump as well, he seems to be the type of likable guy that fund-raises well, while being bold and lucky enough to bet the whole fund on bitcoins when...

anyone else read this book? supposedly the author was inspired by bluecrest, he had access to their trading floor back when they were based in geneva

very cool! well, since we've got u here, maybe let's do a AMA interview with u: - what made 2005-07 great, compared to the period before/after? - what kind of size were u and ur colleagues trading? - any overnights? swing or price ladder scalping? - where r u & the others trading nowadays? any...

given today's surge past $7000/btc, and how the article only gave his winnings up till july, he's prob up another $10m by now, all from $8.5k at start of the year if there's a fountain of gold, this must be it

precisely. in such a distribution the trading results of market wizards are on a magnitude that is much greater than allowed for in the realm of possibility by a normal curve...ok, so back to the original question, how do u think this guy did it??

power law distribution...

well, ok so it's impossible to rule out #1 definitively without having access to their private accounts. but then again, maybe he didn't lie, maybe he even understated his profits, and maybe there are many others like him who chose to stay anonymous. bitcoin alone had its market cap skyrocket...

if jack schwager is writing a new market wizard book, maybe he should interview this guy: "Take the case of Alan Aronoff, a 47-year-old San Franciscan who has dabbled in the music business most of his life, playing in bands and, at one point, owning a private nightclub...After the Bitcoin...

thanks for the suggestions

looking for futures intraday charts (5 minute would be good) going back as far as possible..any recommendations? ideally free, but willing to pay as well for robust source

for me the switch flipped when i tracked down the entries/exits of a winning trader i long admired (& there are various ways of doing this, don't let anybody tell u it can't be done), and reconfigured my system so that it would be consistent with his it's effective because there are more ways...