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Limits and stops have nothing to do with each other. If you're caught in a limit move and your stop is beyond it you're not getting out until the limit resets or it moves off the limit and you manually exit. You also won't be able to exit right at limit because there is no other side to hit...

Yep, and this is why I don't use that order - because you have to change it when the orders are sitting as pending in the TWS windows before you submit it. For whatever reason they don't allow it as a default choice for a bracket etc (most likely because not all exchanges support it). Instead I...

Don't target intraday timeframes, trade on daily or weekly timeframes and just do it when you get home after work.

Depends on who you use, e.g. CQG it's listed as 7$, but eSignal you can get basically every US futures exchange delayed for 12$ or instead just about every single futures, stocks, and forex globally for 38$/month.

This stuff doesn't even really trade so the discussion is entirely academic: http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/volume-open-interest/weather-volume.html

Been long since 1.3075 myself (6B).

That's a STOP PRT order not a stop. IB has access to it if you change the order type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube#Resurgence_in_specialized_markets

Personally I think you should be using limit orders because your algo fears are somewhat paranoid (in this specific context, that is). However, if you still insist, you can use stop-limit or limit if touched orders to go market but control the slippage.

S = C - P -S = P - C Just keep those in your head and shift/negate things accordingly (in this case subtract calls on both sides).

More ridiculousness:

Just send me 50% of your profits for telling you to stop being bearish. :-)

This is a bizarre thread. It started with one guys idea for a journal and then another guy shows up and takes it over with no losing day sim trades?

The problem with fingers is that they aren't too precise for fine grained or precise input which is why we all know how to write with writing utensils. Styluses have a time and place so if you find them useful it's best to protect it just like you would the tablet itself.

Show me anyone returning 1000% per year on ICs year after year and I'll start trading them tomorrow. Nobody even comes remotely close to that.

Fair enough, it's perfectly within your right to be bothered by that. The article(s) I was referring to was not the ZH article but the ones I posted here...

I think I've found the millennial. Did you read the articles?

More news on the war on cash: First we have this recent article by Kenneth Rogoff: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sinister-side-of-cash-1472137692 That guy is apparently a chess grandmaster, which leads me to believe he cannot be that stupid as to actually believe what he wrote. It's filled...

Anyone shorting straddles is shorting way less straddles vs ICs for the same comparative risk (but with a more healthy RR for straddles). Additionally, straddles are easier to control with the underlying (i.e. actual delta hedging) because you're not fighting the continual risk of gamma blowing...

Doesn't matter, it's not accounting for laying off the risk via hedging in other instruments, something which commercials are going to be a hell of a lot more than speculative based funds.