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Technicals ultimately need fundamentals. Just as the Bull run was technically over several times over a decade, the bear run, technically could be over, but is probably not as fundamentally we are not done contracting the economy, but alas just getting started (18 month lead time accounted...

Um I am not so sure about plenty of money thing. I think more accurately, if one had an excess of say, 200-300K cash flow (profit) a year guaranteed, it would be like sim. Once you make a bunch, the issue is cash flow-generation and capital preservation. A bad martingale loss would set one...

Best one I use is heartrate and breathing. They provide solid feedback on your reactions. A lot of the "state of mind" stuff, one has to go around in their head and correct things. I think it is easier to just keep on track, and not go "off", rather than psychoanalyze yourself ad nauseum...

Actually, I think these markets are easier to trade. More opportunities for proficient traders. In other words, if you are having serious issues in this market as a trader, then you have not arrived. Probably the first thing those struggling have to do is realize they did indeed "confuse...

Cold brew is not drip, btw. Different process, more coffee used etc. IMO, price increases are just playing catchup. Rents: Landlords got burned in the pandemic. We ended up giving away about 25% of our rent for two years. (300+ units) I had one property and after building and leasing...

Sometimes. So the way I play it is I do a basket of 3-7 of them. Then manage the exits to eek out a profit overall. It worked for many years, but I moved on to greener pastures, pun intended.

It really depends upon what you are trading and how you are trading it. Having more screens space filled with stuff you don't need is counter productive. At some point there is more information that one can take in, or if you do it can be exhausting after weeks upon weeks of it. I saw that...

Hard to take a post as serious when the OP cannot count to 100. Perhaps he does not know what 100 is? A lot of good people cannot count that high... For all the blathering on about inapplicability, he forgets that strategies have a time and a place. There is no universal strategy fits all...

I ran a single contract ES strat for 2 weeks on paper and then tried an actual account. Day 1: 2 errors. Day 2: 4 errors, Day 3: 7 errors. Errors were things like fills that were anywhere from ~12 seconds to ~4 minutes late. But the killer was the orders were so late, I already generated...

All sims in C2 are super-auto-magic fills. Best price after the fact. So yes. But that strat looks nightingale-ish. 9 contacts? I thought the max was 3. Overnight? Oh my! You can search for C2 and see other comments I made. Summary is the position syncc engine is not very accurate...

File and then do your 2nd consult, then amend if needed. I think the key aspect here is how aggressive you want to be with your filings. Some CPAs do whatever you want, some will advise conservative filing. Personally, I go conservative, because audits are a huge time sink.

CDs can be liquid. I have sold a lot of them before maturity. You just need a dealer willing to put out bid request. Does Schwab do that?

Yep. After the TA is when the rubber hits the road. You can take valid TA and turn it into negative expectation. Likewise, you can take barely positive and turn it into a reasonable, risk adjusted system But all that takes work. IMO, people ask this question, either looking for an easy...

No, but it is doable, but not worth time to get accurate. For the workbench-prototype-model as expressed in EL, I use a generous fixed padding: "through 1 tick" fills + 2 ticks for slippage+comms. I expect if you take something that is a MC workbench version and try to actually trade, you...

OTH, I made a 3 deposit notification of incoming funds last month. They credited the funds immediately even before the funds left my bank. It depends upon the amounts, and your account risk. Those test deposits should be within a business day or two. I would check with them to make sure the...

Yes, they match up. But more importantly, if they do not, on occasion, I can track it down and figure out what "other" shenanigans the order-sync engine is doing. A lot of the issues comes down to all the strategies feeding into the a single execution engine instance. So I just keep it...

Did you not hear about the new IOC? JK. Yes I ment IOG. Sorry.

Hi MB, I use what amounts to MIT method. I hold the data and conditions in MC and only transmit the MKT order when the conditions are met. For me it does not make sense to fight the executions engine of the EL-MC until one moves to the API and eliminates the EL execution engine. e.g. if...

You have to set the amount manually. Otherwise the bracket order will default to the open position amount. This is possible with the hot keys. One of the advantages of using a gamming keyboard is that you can create macros that run multiple hot keys in TWS. These macros add the extra layer...

L88, Here is a list from a Bloomberg article. Note the dates the FOMC members are speaking. Ordinary scheduled announcements are pretty simple to avoid. However, the speaking engagements are harder. Sometimes nothing happens, but other times, something is said and it moves the market...