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Actually my son trades bitcoin. And he didn't have to ask. Must be in the genes. :D

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Well since the scope of the project hasn't been discussed putting a dollar amount on it is kind of meaningless.

Is Cramer even a thing any more? I haven't heard his name in years.

If you use a straight stop order for entry you end up with a market order after the stop triggers. As others have pointed out, a limit order to catch a retrace is better. On IB you can enter a stop/limit order to catch breakouts but also get a better entry price. Obviously if the market is...

Come on. A pic with his mom? Where's the pic with his Glock and his GF with the big butt?

You've probably doomed the market to another year of levitation. Thanks for that.

Good. The less complaints the feds hear from retail traders the better, otherwise they feel obligated to "do something."

Owning stock is insanely dangerous. Properly managed option positions are much safer than stocks and can have the same upside potential.

A lot of Python apps use PyQt for the GUI which is just a binding to Qt. Qt in turn is a C++ package and used in many, many C++ applications. Like most power tools Qt takes some getting used to but it has a rich set of add-ons for graphing and other GUI stuff.

I have 2 main objections to Python: Indentation rules - Every mainstream language since Fortran-IV and COBOL uses braces for if, for, while etc statements. They stopped using indentation for a reason: it's too error prone. No types - I remember when "strong typing" was first being mentioned...

Because it's a toy and only has application within the MetaTrader platform which sucks.

That's not really fair. There's a huge code base in certain fields that isn't going away and it's not like you get to pick the language to use on a project.

No GUI? How about no braces? I mean, the last time I saw indentation being used to enclose if or for actions was...what? Fortran IV? COBOL?

I'm afraid C++ is still pretty much *it*. It's still widely used in wireless telecom and embedded programming (my fields). I was bitching in an earlier thread about how much I hate Python. That's really only because it's so different from C++, my main language. The fact is there's a huuuuge...

I use quantopian and really like it overall. I don't fall into the paranoid camp, fearing someone's going to steal my Holy Grail. Particularly since I have no Grails to lose. The one thing is I absolutely detest goddamned Python but it's become so pervasive that I've had to bite the bullet...

Dude every time you close a position in a cash account, no matter how small, there's a tax consequence. Period. If it's less than 1 year it's short term cap gain, if it's > 1 year it's long term cap gain. The only way to avoid this is to trade in an IRA.

Say what you will about the USG but I must commend the Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. They generate very nice, readable reports and have an easy to use search function. To find Rep. Chu's other transaction reports go here and type in "chu" for the last name...

Haha sorry I was just sarcastically echoing what someone else said earlier. Regarding analyzing her trades, I was able to import them to Excel from the pdf file (no mean feat). If anyone wants to make sense of the trades to glean a strategy from them here's a csv you can open in Excel or whatever:

These threads pop up periodically. People want to transfer funds from a cash account into an IRA by intentionally losing money in the former and having a big win in the latter. You could theoretically move more money than you're allowed into an IRA that way. It's like doing an unlimited...