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It's time to take some profits. Fast.

The rally is going to reverse at some point so eventually they might be correct.

I am experiencing similar problem now and then but I suspect that API is not the culprit but TWS itself.

Are they in compliance to keep the investors money for 2 days and earn on interest for themselves? Is that what it is?

LoL, it doesn't sound like you are trading appropriately if you are losing 20% of your account on one trade with the minimum lot size. Let's say I lost it after 6 months of trading. This should not make any difference. Again, my example is based upon the premise that one has a sound...

Ok, I have $10,000 in my account and I trade 1 ES contract. My leverage now is about 4:1. I happened to lose $2,000 and I have now $8,000 and my leverage is 5:1 if I decide to continue to trade 1 ES contract. What should I do now so my trading futures would be considered appropriate by your...

Yes, leverage is great in the ES but like I said a good trader knows this and trades appropriately. Can you give some example so I would understand better what the appropriate trading means. You cannot say that cost structure is more advantageous in the SPY vrs the ES because it is not...

ES trading does not have to be inherently more risky. The risk only derives from leverage. But that's the trader himself who sets the leverage relative to his trading capital so he is in full charge of the risk. Nobody forces his hand to use the leverage in case of ES contracts. That's why in...

I am talking about both: how can one easily go from $40,000 position down to $30,000 position so that his risk does not increase?

For the huge positions it might not make a difference. You are correct.

How can you scale in and out if your minimum contract size for ES is about $40,000?

Futures are contracts and therefore they are not as convenient for some people as stocks which are not the contracts. Stocks are more flexible in terms of scaling your position.

Not everybody is feeling comfortable with contracts.

Shorting spy requires half the margin of what sh needs.

Can you please clarify: is it buy or sell on Monday? According to your biases it's S&P buy, right?

How can one be sure that the link above itself is not full of worms?

What good drawing software can you recommend?

Players need to take some chips off the table.

I think you are bluffing.

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