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For those that have traded a long time the market conditions we are having is a true traders paradise, a return to the norm -volatility. Disciplined traders that major in majors, not minors - like trying to make a few lousy ticks or points every trade or day have incredible opportunities to...

You don't need a video card for trading platforms unless you need more than 2 or 3 monitors. Modern GPUs can easily handle the small work load of trading platforms, in fact you could stream HD movies at the same time & you shouldn't have any problems. External video cards are needed for...

The TradeStation WebAPI allows integration using a variety of programming languages such as C#, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby or any language that can access the Internet. They also offer ultra low latency colo through FCM360. I don't use this myself, I just happen to know about this since one of my...

I am a big fan of futures, however you have to ask yourself - why do so many of the pros, like those at private equity firms that are real big earners trade stocks? For one thing when unexpected news, good or bad, hits the wire and you see a huge surge in volume with price gaping out of...

Sang Lucci on Chat with trader said that pro traders file taxes in the US once each year. Any real trader that has turned a profit over $1k would know that you file each quarter or will pay penalties. Say you made $1M, if you don't pay the quarterly estimate you would have to pay about $40k...

Any experienced serious currency trader is likely to be active in both spot & futures. In the U.S. you have regulated Fx brokers, some with access into the interbank. Outside of the U.S. there are some good brokers, and plenty of bucket shops - so be very critical. On another subject - novice...

There has never been so mush shorting complacency in 10 & 30 year, history shows that these types of speculators eventually get clobbered. The central banks are active on this market & not just as hedgers - they can clean up on all the shorts any time they please.

You may want to look at IBs 'ScaleTrader'. The ScaleTrader is a sophisticated trading algorithm which allows one to enter a large quantity order that is executed in a series of increments or components, with each component being executed at a progressively better price...

I find it beneficial to segment my risk/trade mgmt by the instrument types: futures, forex, & stocks. This adds an extra layer of protection, transparency, and keeps me better grounded.

No its not - there are countless discretionary CTAs and equity funds that have fully audited closed NAV track records spanning years to decades. Or just look at the Forbes richest traders list, the vast majority are discretionary traders. Discretionary trading is the essence, the core of...

The NYSE is behind this like Robert had said, they do their own investigations. According to a TS posting by one of their staff: if you got flagged as a pro it is because the NYSE found that you have some kind of link with a LLC/Corp, or have accessed research from them that they deem as being...

"Even if you had a balanced portfolio, everything went down" Your typical retail (long only) "balanced portfolio" works as well in bear markets as changing seats on the Titanic. The best professional investors/traders, those that hold longer term, are either making highly concentrated bets...

What risk management mistake did optionsellers.com fund manager do to blow up his fund and clients? Apparently they completely neglected having any sort of risk mgmt strategy. The move in natural gas by historical measures is nothing unusual at all, the volatility had contracted the last 4...

The Think or Swim VWAP code I posted is correct - it is in perfect sync with the multi-day VWAP codes widely used by many on TradeStation & TradingView. It is accurate. TradingView 1 year VWAP Tradestation 1 year VWAP Think or Swim 1 year VWAP

B.S.!! That is about as likely as winning the Boston Marathon on crutches with a broken leg sporting a full cast. I see your trying to start a trading room, never a shortage of Charlatans like you & the naive newbies that are foolish enough to assume that everything they read must be true...

Short squeezes are not only possible in Futures, but even more likely. Stocks have a fixed float unlike futures which have an unlimited supply. Short squeeze applies only to stocks in the true sense of the definition. I have never been trapped in a futures contract in a short squeeze, I sure...

This is what I use to keep an eye on what the bid dogs are doing. https://www.holdingschannel.com/top/

Here is the Think or Swim code for multi-day VWAP - you select the start date, you can day 2 days, 50 days, a year, etc. input startDateYyyyMmDd = 20171116; def beyondStartDate = if GetYYYYMMDD() >= startDateYyyyMmDd then 1 else 0; plot VWAP = TotalSum(if beyondStartDate then (((high + low +...

Check to make sure you have overfill protection disabled. Overfill Protection: Dictates that only one order in the group will be routed to an exchange at a time. This completely removes the possibility of an overfill.

Income inequity has a strong correlation to the stock market. In 1928 it had rocketed up to about the same level we are at now. The richer you are the more likely you are to have investments in the stock market, middle America was buried in debt living way past their means - as opposed to...