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China back. I find their market presence annoying.

Most traders lose money due to money management, discipline, and psych issues rather than TA or FA.

I haven't the slightest why you're so incredibly optimistic given the shit-ton of underlying economic issues out there. You do realize grow and recede is also a normal cycle, right?

Yeah I also have open bugs for complex position stuff (how the new TWS displays them) and one other major thing (like the fact that I cannot use a stop loss on ICE IPE inter-commodity spreads) and they just ignore it (or sometimes acknowledge it and then ignore it). If the customer is going out...

Everything is about volume, levels, context, and probability. He has an edge in that he knows how to read the tape and work that into the current and higher context.

i think you guys are too early to be shorting. It's going to consolidate; what purpose would there be to trap a small amount of bulls up here and then slam it down? They need more. Prediction update:

Booted out of my gasoil spread for -2 loss on a 5 lot. Done with that one. CL mar/jan back to breakeven as of now.

Might also be a good time to start thinking about getting short DX and long certain commodities. When it comes to equities I'm sure there's quite the circus on it's way with many "surprise" black swans in store.

1990-2000 is definitely going to be a supply zone... if it rips up to 2020-2030 I'll be surprised. It's definitely possible, but my perception is that this is the beginning of trap the bulls. I also expect a bunch of chop/consolidation and annoying trading up here.

Haha guys, I am completely anti status-symbol/drive a BMW to feel special, or any of that shit. In fact, I absolutely agree buying a Mac just to run a Windows VM on it would be ridiculous. I'm not recommending that. I'm recommending that for people who want a dual purpose machine (email...

Definitely. Basically any modern piece of hardware will handle almost any competent trading platform. A solid setup IMO, rather than a mini+ext display is the 27" imac retina as the former is more powerful, but the mini should work fine. Alternatively you could just run a windows box for your...

20-30+ charts in 8 or so chartbooks (SierraChart) on a Macbook Pro 15" laptop using VMware fusion an a 4 vCPU VM w/ 4G of RAM allocated to it. Totally tradable so you must be running some hog-heavy platform if you're having issues with it.

You don't need to be copying his trades you need to be picking his brain on *why* he took those trades. Right now you're compelled by the potential monetary gain from the trades when you should be compelled by the potential intellectual and strategic gain from the trades. Forget about the money.

Gotta learn to trade on your own man. Apeing someone else won't teach you anything.

This is lack of liquidity around news events combined with heavy buy/sell reactions immediately post-news.

Not just applicable to spreads but all trading. Only choose good setups. If you commit to so-so plays then keep it small or preferably don't enter at all.

If you have the margin available its not impossible to get out without paying the spread. Go short and let them get assigned - provided you can get short at all (hopefully not hard to borrow, otherwise you'll have to risk a weekend gap on exp)

Sounds like they're mostly intrinsic value by now. You might be able to short and then let them go to expiration.

Closed out my Oct9 ES 1960 calls @ 23.25, bought at 4.25, whoop whoop

Yep, sorry I was thinking EUREX which is 0800 Frankfurt time. FTSE100/Z futures also open then as well but things don't pick up until London open. Come to think of it there might be a small window of time during DST switchover where Germany is offset from London but it shouldn't last more than...