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  1. tommcginnis

    Looking for someone to talk to during the day

    ... but stay in the game. If something comes up (that might need your attention within 20 minutes), it does much ill, to have to re-invest 45-minutes-to-an-hour, having to re-tool, re-immerse, and prepare a response. Never let *anything* take you out of your game -- including CNBC, so-called...
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    dead head traders

    Oh! And!! This guy's stuff has been informing the Interwebs for 20+ years... just great. If you sit with this, as the album goes by??? There's some powerful medicine. http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/gone.html
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    dead head traders

    How I spent my weekend.... https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1586902-hyryder-2-night-pass-indianapolis/ (Go ahead -- hit "Play" -- you know you want to.... and you will Feel Like A Strangerrrrrrr. (Their open for NYE -- which weather was sitting at -2°F here in Indy -- it was Cold Rain &...
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    dead head traders

    Most definitely: just google, youtube grateful dead europe 72 ...and you will smile, smile, smile......:D
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    Interactive Brokers - Is there someway to see limit price entered after execution?

    Wow. Apologies to the OP for having read this question too fast...... and thanks to the other posters for MUCH better answers.:rolleyes:
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    Trading JOURNAL for options

    Not to sound like a Luddite but, if you take what you like of the journals that you see, and integrate to your own options set-up, you will learn more, and show better analysis, down the road. Check my vote under Roll Your Own.
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    Stop Loss on Options

    Setting a set of alerts will alert you that something might need to be addressed (by some yet-to-be determined method), and would do you well in avoiding "bad fills and a ton of slippage" from GTCs constructed on a single metric. :)
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    Where should a beginner begin?

    Begin what? Trading? Investing? Minding her own IRA? You should begin by finding out 1) where she is, and 2) where she thinks she is. Then, you might query her for 3) where she might wish to go. From a lot of experience, you're likely to find out that 1) she isn't where she thinks she is, and...
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    Stop Loss on Options

    Three things will move the price of an option -- the underlying, volatility, and time. Whether long or short, your trading plan needs a much more comprehensive exit than just peeking at the underlying. You are going to get killed.
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    What was your investment/trading gains in 2017?

    My as-traded gains barely beat the SPX which, as a premium seller (99.5%), is pretty miserable. But I would be happy with that, if I had lesser drawdowns -- minPortVar, if you will. (Yes, there are all sorts of issues with a minPortVar goal, but it's still part of what got drilled into my brain...
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    Interactive Brokers - Is there someway to see limit price entered after execution?

    put the Trade Log button on your tool bar. (how have you ever traded without it?) it's configurable to every trade facet, and is exportable.
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    Automatic stop-loss and profit target in sterling pro

    http://support.hold.com/software/sterling/Sterling_User_Guide.pdf
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    ES→SPX ≈ 3pts! Here comes the interest rates!

    SPX 2684.40 ES 2684.38. The ES has now flashed a return below the SPX. (Meh. It was about 2 minutes. Then it was gone. Now, it's back (2¢!). Now, it's gone. [Fascinating, right?]) I have a very straw, Straw Man that says "Yes, this is interest rates" but that the compounding/twisting thing...
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    ES→SPX ≈ 3pts! Here comes the interest rates!

    I saw the ES 6pts above the SPX earlier this week -- now it's about 0.30 pts above, and has been that way all morning. Never seen this. Don't have an explanation for the flopitude. Front-month for a fresh ES future should be about 7pts below at the start (*now* for Mar18). Woof! The ES is...
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    Does anyone know how to run this KIC/LPPL?

    Find/load the appropriate Java and make sure its deployment matches what the program expects in gradlew.____
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    Developing IntraDay Strategies Using ATR for Risk

    There are several ATR/σ/_S/R_/stop-loss/profit-taker discussions in the past year. Most have a similar set of commenters to this thread, but with (perhaps) more detail. Worth looking up. To address your immediate questions: 1) How many ATR periods? I use 6, but really, it depends on the...
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    Does Elliott Wave Theory actually work?

    Another *inspired* post, V.
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    Does Elliott Wave Theory actually work?

    Elliot's method is interpolation; prediction depends on extrapolation.
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    Does Elliott Wave Theory actually work?

    You can translate Chinese to any language on earth. And then, you can translate it back. And you can do this again and again and again. And aside from some "slippage" of vocabulary or tenses and such, the same story will be repeatedly told. So you see the problem with your analogy? You can't do...
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    Is chart trading dead? (At least when it comes to ES)

    You can't scalp ticks if you don't get 'wash'. Put up a 1min candle graph of ATR with a 6min SMA. Put a horizontal line at 0.50: if the 1min ATR is not averaging above half-a-point for the past 6 minutes, DO NOT TRADE. For me, the sweet spot was ~0.75. Above 1.0, and you're now a B.S.D. (and, I...
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