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Their equity curve looks like their biasing long on equities and then long on vol in market turns. Which means not so much in counter-trend or even short equity positions... Just eyeballing it, but I seems not-so-much centered on tail risk. No hint (to my eyeballs)...

Way too many people do *not* do what you're doing right now -- trading positions when it's handy, but recognizing that trading component parts is part of the very same game. Question #1 from here is, "What is your expectation for future movement?" That steers a lot of long/short and call/put...

Maxinger, look at the data:

All facts not in evidence from the opening post, to which I responded. One last time, for those slow on the uptake: "Please read my original post." ("WHAT a frikken genius." :rolleyes:)

It is, in fact, rather evil. :(

You're missing the point: how did you confirm that resources were not hogged? Please see my original post.

TWS is planted on your computer, whether native or downloaded. Issues would show up in CPU and RAM consumption. IB's servers are IB's issues, but Task Manager would still show 1) low resource consumption -- even *idle* time, and 2) stalls and spikes in network use. OP should open Task Manager...

Turn on Task Manager, and do some digging. You've got somebody doing a major suck on your resources. I don't *think* it's TWS' fault, but rather a symptom.

Two quick thoughts: • I have done what you did, but kept it at 6 colors. What you have done -- WOW. People should realize that that is not a *graphic* per se, but a *spreadsheet.* • Your work on differences may produce (heh heh!) certain "islands" of discontinuous sloping with regard to...

Haven't forex-ed in over a decade, but there is *way* much non-market factors for both the GBP (Brexit; EU-cuspieness) and the USD (Stable Genius) to take any position longer than a Tweet-snap. It'd be like throwing darts at a butterfly. (IMO.)

No -- and in fact, the opposite. This is the very nature of voluntary exchange, and why trade improves lives. The weaver eats better when they trade blankets to the farmer; the farmer sleeps warmer when he trades pigs to the weaver. The marvel of The Invisible Hand is that, through unfettered...

There are other presentations on the net that might read better for you, but The Fools got this completely correct. Give that article another shot.

You can do this all by yourself: put your cursor on your ET username in the upper-righthand-side of the screen, and a drop-done menu will appear. On the righthand side of the choices, about half-way down, is People You Ignore. Click on that, and input my ET username. Please.

Your goal should not be entry(s) and exit(s), but *trades*. So you need to examine this idea over a good chunk of time, and see how it behaves for each underlying. (Humbletrader's point re "Futures" I would clarify to Indexes.) I used to tick-scalp. I used 1minute charts with T/A that usually...

Ow moi GAWWWWD! That's all my cousins -- Dad's side from Queens & Brooklyn, Mom from Lonn Guyland.

I *told* you it would make you facepalm. I *also* suggested you already knew it. You guys *are* a pretty sharp bunch, but hey -- it was Sunday night. Okay so, ALL HAIL, ETJJJjjjjjjjjjjjj!!!

Nope. Nope. Nope. Annnnnnnnd Nope. You guys are thinking like traders, and like you're responding to traders. You've got to go down a couple of floors. Read his question, and respond to a twelve year old. The BIGGEST part of the difference is ____________________... (As ol' Mom would said...

You guys are driving me nuts. Nobody's even gotten *close* to MOST most most correct answer. Imagine that you're a speaker at a 'retail' financial conference, and it's time for Q&A, and met1989 steps to the microphone and asks his question. Respond -- to the specific question and to the entire...

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"Yes, l know calculating sum of the ATM straddle gives ~ expected move. but does IB not have this calculated for you? or have a choice of showing it alongside the IV it has on the top right for every option chain time frame like other top option brokers." Don't mistake popularity with utility...