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What was the most counter-intuitive thing you learned in trading? For me that would be 'less is more". Spending less time with trading, trading less often, and taking smaller positions has helped my bottom line profits and at the same time keeps me chilled out.

The majority of institutional investors doesn't outperform the market either, does it? Institutions and hedge funds make their money from their customer's. They make money even when they under perform the market. Where can I get some good acid? What about magic mushrooms from a cow field? You...

60% performance for 20 years is doable for a retail trader 60% a year for 20 years would make you a world famous trader - especially for a retail trader. Retail as a group under performs the market - and the more active traders as a group under perform by a much wider margin.

I recall seeing several studies that showed women do better investing in the market and make better day traders - by a wide margin. The reasons given are that men tend to over trade, take on more risk, are over confident, and break their own rules more often.

We have barely crawled out of the stone age with computers. Computers innovations move at a snails pace. Little has changed in many respects to a basic P.C. from the apps side anyway. I have been looking for a program for 2 decades now that follows my moves on the computer and can do them...

Breakout strategies tend to have low win rates True - however, a seasoned swing trader typically expects approx 10% of all their trades to account for their profits in a given year. When you lean into your winners with size and aggressively manage your trades so as to take only small loses...

EEM had a big volume spike today - was that you?

Show me the trader that borrowed big from the local loan shark to trade and his stop loss is his pistol he keeps loaded next to his keyboard (don't try this at home)- or someone driving a taxi while trading. Those are the real deal hard core traders that I want to know more about. Who cares...

Wyckoff, who worked with JP Morgan,Jesse Livermore & the big hedge funds of the 20's/30's tried to teach the retail some 100 years ago that big volume spikes were the stop & go for price movement - volume proceeds price movement. Big volume spikes after major sell offs signal the weak hands...

Wykoff (1873-1934) is widely used by a number of market wizards and still works today with astonishing results. Wykoff saw large volume as the catalyst for equities to stop or go at key areas - like breaking out of ranges. This does not apply to futures - at least not nearly as much.

Claims without an independent audit on their filed taxes has nothing to stand on. No equity curve moves that long like in that way unless maybe they invested in a stock that took off. Not even a hit with taxes on that curve. This is dreamy to the naive, and pure B.S. to the critical thinkers.

The IB Roth is odd - with futures their margin is up to 3 times the overnight rate. With TDA it is approx 50%. I still use IB for filling some orders - getting my data feed from other brokers. That way it is a good deal. If I was to pay for all their fees trying to match other brokers I use it...

"momentum precedes price" is a well known theory." It is volume that precedes price - not momentum.

Here is a good overview - I do not, nor would I ever want or need to manage OPM. https://greentradertax.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Trading-Other-Peoples-Money-06042015.pdf

Some ludacris claims being made here - fantasy winnings. Come on people, lets keep it real. Nobody actively trading moves an account in a complete linear up direction way for a year or more - unless they are maybe Citadel. Not even a hit from taxes - fakers always botch that up because they...

Have you checked out ADM? They are global, do their own clearing, and offer API.

Using edges plural is well within reach of any trader that works on it. I have half a dozen edges - it's not rocket science. Being under capitalized, taking on to much size in proportion to your capital, and not having a solid risk mgmt strategy is the opposite of an edge - it the road to ruin.

yes - it can be exported in CVS file in this format: open/high/low/close/volume

The majority of voters nation wide are for legalizing pot.

BuySell2 -There are no zero sum games in trading/investing. With stocks & ETFs it is not a 0 sum game. This is a myth often cited in some trading books written by misinformed author's. With futures and options it is a 0 sum game. Someone takes the other side of your trade - one wins and the...