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  1. tommcginnis

    Cool trading related pictures

    I'd get my money back for that lettering. Bet the painter was loaded, and the stern was *not* at eye level.......
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    Price Drivers

    Hey Short-Timer. Glad to meet'cha.
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    Price Drivers

    Not to get all geeky or anything, but if you want to think Old School a minute, the initial question is in deep error: there is no contradiction between "market sentiment" and either of aggregate supply or aggregate demand. In implicit form Demand is a function of [Price; Income; Market Choices...
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    [Simple Question] how to send cash from IB to bank?

    As someone noted above, go ahead and set-up the (free-from-both-ends) ACH "method" while you're at it, so you're not paying wire charges to your bank *and* to IB, should you desire a withdrawal more frequently than every 30 days. You don't want to be a'learnin' this stuff all over again. (Again...
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    IB Figure yourself out with TWS so many easily fixable errors.

    No matter the outcome, you just made 8,000* friends. (*No, I have no idea from where the "8,000" might come, but everything sounds bigger when it starts with "eight". Try it.)
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    Vastly different prices for options?

    Checked again, this morning. (I'm a curious nerd -- nothing new...) The PUTS[!!!] were 70-bid-1.10-ask. I suspect you had a put quote from OptionsHouse -- take that 1.10/1.40, subtract a day's theta-burn, and "Could be!"
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    Vastly different prices for options?

    Yeah -- at the close, I got 10-bid-20. Somet'in' be up wit' yore numberrrs.
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    IB TWS layout nightmare

    Any help here? CONFIGURATION/DISPLAY/SETTINGS/[_]Show legs only or CONFIGURATION/DISPLAY/TICKER ROW/[_] Group legs into complex positions vs CONFIGURATION/DISPLAY/TICKER ROW/[_] Hide complex positions
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    [Simple Question] how to send cash from IB to bank?

    This question is answered in triplicate on the IB website, including cute little videos that have even been posted on Youtube (I think). They are not particularly easy to find, but you can search for them as easy as anyone else. There are also IB Help Chat and Help Phone people available, who...
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    Advice?

    "I would offer that, in seeking advice/opinion, you need to provide a lot more of your own personal context -- time frames, long term investment/risk-avoidance aims, your own trading platform (besides "Yahoo Finance"!!) come to mind."
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    Advice?

    This was a rude and snarky post, written in the crush/rush of the trading day, for which I apologize. I found your post hard to comprehend, the first time around. Upon further study, I would offer that, in seeking advice/opinion, you need to provide a lot more of your own personal context --...
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    Advice?

    I would recommend a psych screen and a G.E.D.
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    IB TWS - Freezing & Crashing

    Hope you're up&running this morning, SOES. FWIW, I'm running the stable/daily download (963.3e), and memory consumption is down/level (no creeping-crud RAM consumption), and interaction with other items (especially the Java-based items that sometimes are not so friendly, e.g., Firefox and...
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    Day Trading Article

    $222k for a guy running one of the biggest trading education companies is very, very impressive. His dollar/hour wage was certainly boatloads better then "education" -- but "Multiple Streams Of Income" is a smart life tenet.
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    Zone Detection

    Okay, well, that sound you hear is the collective "Whap!" of palms to foreheads around the world -- in frustrated, rueful sympathy for the whole crowd of unfortunates who are familiar with the chuckleheaded phrase "supply and demand zones." That is all.
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    Hedge

    You forgot about the "And I want no risk!" part..... https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/bag-of-unicorn-farts/
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    The S&P has topped

    The __dirt__ volatility has me bringing the bottom up, and the top down: *not* a happy man. Waiting til maybe this time tomorrow (seeing where Apr28 finishes) before I put anything more on (besides filling in some holes here and there, and harvesting what appears to be in danger). Would love...
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    IB Figure yourself out with TWS so many easily fixable errors.

    Hey now!* 1) Those are there for very good reason. 2) I don't know of any that cannot be {successfully} removed via a check-box, or in your Global Config. * Not really, but hell maybe just, any sort of Dr. John reference.
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    IB Figure yourself out with TWS so many easily fixable errors.

    MAGNIFICENT LETTER, MAX. Along those lines, .... Every day, I open BookTrader/Settings, click twice on the empty Display Deep Book Buttons box (to indicate yes, and then to de-indicate), and then hit Apply. In a place where screen real estate is at a premium, WHY IS THAT STUPID BUTTON THERE...
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    Examples of expertise / mastery

    Hell, man! This is trading! *Most* of what goes on is bullshit-hiding-in-subterfuge-masked-as-magic! The idea *mostly* is HIDE what is simple under Byzantine-fractal-high-floob siliness. *Our job* is the classic Executive Function: filter out the noise, find the nub -- the kernal -- and work it...
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