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The ThinkOrSwim platform flat out refuses to run on a non-Oracle JVM. IB may or may not run on non-Oracle but Oracle has made it very easy to install on Linux. It used to be a religious experience.

Your nephew's got the right idea but is being overly ambitious. Best way to start if you're young is buy a *cheap* townhouse and fix it up yourself (if needed). Another option is a duplex where you live in one half and rent the other. I've had a heck of a time finding duplexes because they're...

The option chain on IB only has strikes down to 5. Not sure where those lower strikes are from. I checked the CBOE chain and it looks very much like what you posted. Weird.

Bitcoin exchanges are held to the "know your customer" standard in order to allow customers to convert to USD. That means they're watching for red flags same as banks. Something else to consider is how much cashflow we're talking about. Bitcoin exchanges don't necessarily have that much USD on...

Regular transfers from a BTC exchange to and from a US bank will begin to look like money laundering after a while. If everything is truly aboveboard, why not just do normal USD wire transfers?

IB's TWS and Gateway and Think or Swim are both Java-based, therefore both work on Windows, Linux and Mac.

If it's an IRA I don't think you can use PM.

You can pretty much buy any random recent laptop and Linux will run on it. I run IB TWS and my own custom front-end software on both Linux and Windows with no problems. One of the saddest things is you can't buy an empty laptop (no OS) at least here in the US. You have to pay for MS Windows...

You're not planning on running IB TWS or IB Gateway on there right? Processors in this class do not have enough RAM or CPU horsepower to to run Java apps.

Not to sound like Zero Hedge, but rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind.

Pwned. Fortunately I don't trade such dreadful strategies any more.

I once traded a long straddle on a stock that everyone thought would move maybe 5% after earnings. It ended up making a 20% move where I made a lot of money unexpectedly. Now imagine the guy who took the other side of my trade. That's you.

Some call it the "BS" model too.:D

Be careful changing which model you're using. Futures options (at least ES) are American settled and by definition you should be using Bjerksund-Stensland. Index options are European settled and by definition you should be using Black-Scholes. This discrepancy could be something as simple as...

Got that right. Back in the day I (and lots of others) ran a full BTC node when the blockchain was 1 or 2 GB. Now it's 68 GB and the number of full nodes is much smaller. Everyone's pretty much switched over to using thin clients like Electrum. This doesn't bode well for the health of the...

Ethereum vs Bitcoin isn't quite an apples-to-apples comparison. Ethereum is truly a step beyond the simple ledger blockchain, implementing smart contracts. Smart contracts are a truly brilliant breakthrough.

I've seen this too. In my trading app the submitted and presubmitted messages are only used to update the GUI. Because of this the order will appear on the screen on the first message and be updated a few times with the repeats. It's obnoxious from a code perspective but is invisible on the...

The ban on forex trading in Ohio and Arizona in the fine print in black and white at the bottom of this page: https://www.tdameritrade.com/investment-products/forex-trading.page Unbelievable.

Dude you bumped a zombie thread

He may be an options guru but certainly not a human relations guru.