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  1. tommcginnis

    This $13 Million Florida Mansion Comes With Its Own Wall Street-Style Trading Room

    It reminds me Trading Places... "Mortimer! Why don't you show our young guest to the trading desk...."
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    WSJ: Trump wants to buy Greenland

    Whoa whoa whoa. There is a LOT more agreement in this thread than people apparently realize. Mebbe it's time to reread the comments and take the fingie offen the mousie-clickie??
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    WSJ: Trump wants to buy Greenland

    Were Greenland open territory, then just like Seward's Folly, we should jump on Trump's Bump with haste. • Arctic-facing natural harbors • Surrounded by friends (allows concentration on technology, not boots-on-ground) • Crap-ton-loads of known and of suspected high-value mineral resources • No...
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    Risk Control using Patern Recognition?

    You said, "the crux of the biscuit." :D:D:D Forty-five years.
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    What is the edge in your trade?

    As retail/semi-retail, we have three sources of edge (should we choose to use them). 1) Size: (or rather, lack of it)... we are small enough to be able to enter/exit markets without triggering price movement, most of the time. Large funds may take a month to do what we might accomplish in a 6.5...
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    Does IB have DTBP limitations?

    I recall this being of some importance... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_memorandum_account
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    Removing the golden handcuffs

    That is a fanTAStic set of developments. Fingers crossed for ya -- you've certainly paid the dues. Way big :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:.
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    The S&P 500 will top soon at 2925-2930

    In saner times, such a 'tweet' would've triggered a bipartisan 25th Amendment resolution, immediately. Now? It triggers Pence-ive recognition of what would follow....
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    When do day traders pay the tax and how to do it ?

    Step 1: be profitable. :cool:
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    Poker -- Has your knowledge of poker improved your trading profits?

    :vomit::vomit::vomit::vomit::confused::vomit::vomit::confused::vomit::confused::vomit::vomit::vomit: :wtf::confused::vomit::vomit::vomit: o_Oo_Oo_O :wtf::vomit: "Phew! Glad that's over." Nope!
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    Poker -- Has your knowledge of poker improved your trading profits?

    I'm going to disagree: they both involve quantitative position assessment and risk management. Ooo! Same as better-level poker. :rolleyes: {Additional random thoughts...} Bridge seems more like the option market than futures scalping. Chess more like fundamentals' investing. "Time" which...
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    Why isn't IB up here defending themselves?

    Whatcha need there is a G.F.L.A.W.H.* to shorten the distance to a globally reasonable amount. :thumbsup::thumbsup: I have opened a ticket on it. Purdue, MIT, and CERN are collaborating. Should be good. IB should take note. * Glass-Fiber Local-Area Worm Hole
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    any good book on reading company financial statement

    Used price of $3, ridiculously simple, but it provides a breakdown in a pattern that speaks to me and reminds me of all sorts of other implications. https://www.ebay.com/p/How-to-Read-a-Financial-Report-Wringing-Vital-Signs-Out-of-the-Numbers-by-John-A-Tracy-1993/946332 Also a fan of the...
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    Clarification of margin requirement of future contract

    Make this trade on your IB paper account. Read all the click-through trade/margin effect screens. Pull up your account window. Re-read what HobbyTrading wrote, and what IB says about margin (and the definitions for each Account window field) until you are satisfied that you can convince a...
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    Which Trading System Or Strategy Is The Most Profitable?

    Search YouTube for "profitable trading system" -- if there are too many, add "for free."
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    Unique multifractal analysis

    You choose: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=great+story,+bro&t=ffsb&iax=images&ia=images
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    What's your personality? Which one makes the best traders?

    Investors? INTJs: respecting rules Traders? INTPs: "like to improvise" Ultimate success? INTJ traders -- (who no longer care to "perceive" anymore...!)
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    SPXU and SPXU1

    Tom -- What FSU said -- Tom :D ("Protection" begs "protection from what?" FSU nails it.)
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    Does trendline work?

    Again, a question: Just what do you think algorithmic programs are programmed to hunt? Thousands and millions of them out there, all tuned to hunt for conditions where some MA (no matter how computed) moves above-or-below some other MA (no matter how computed) to trigger an entry (whether long...
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