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  1. tommcginnis

    Machine Learning and Neural Networks

    I'll dig out my notes and see if they make sense without the verbage -- regardless, it's (I think) an interesting collection. About a dozen slides, IIRC...
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    Machine Learning and Neural Networks

    Great thread. I gave a presentation recently on how, as "Machine Learning" tools in Python become more popular, the ease of making drastic procedural mistakes (and thinking that your results are nifty!) increases dramatically. After going through lots of math and through lots of Python history...
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    Fine Strategy

    Peanuts are legumes.
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    Selling a Put, the opposite end of this trade

    The question is incomplete. I surmise the OP goes toward volume versus open interest.
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    how do you guys config your IB trading layout?

    There area as many IB TWS/Mosaic set-ups as there are traders. Spend the first 2-3 years finding out how to match your set-up to your trading. Save set-ups AND take screen-shots. Tweak quarterly. Save again.
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    Fine Strategy

    Your description is of an iron butterfly around $27, but you have another [unmentioned, imbalancing] Buy of June puts at $24.
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    Beginner Question on Line Charts

    "...supposed to hit every print..." Oh god no. Your single line would be a mere blur through the millions of trades in a day, and market price info would be slowed to molasses as everyone, in essence, applied for by-tick timeXsales data. So, how to speed things along? 4 data points are...
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    Any tips for me i have been paper trading for a month made 1786 thousand with a 10k acount and im 14

    One of the best posts of 2019. :fistbump::fistbump::fistbump::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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    Can't place orders

    And how's that workin' out for ya? :wtf:
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    Can't place orders

    You were trying to place the order before the market opened. :banghead: On your order presets is a box that says, "Allow trades outside RTH." Your box may not be checked. As well, a long-standing glitch in TWS denies outside-RTH trades from transmission unless the entire Presets page is...
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    Future Options

    When you're done moaning about IB being too high (which is, when your research shows you just how inexpensive IB is), you should run a side-by-side comparison between ES and SPX options, focusing on bid-ask spreads and hour-by-hour volume, per strike. :wtf:
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    Trump at it again...Jaw boning crude oil.

    The only thing "transparent" about Agent Orange is his flaunted sociopathic disconnection from truth/facts/reality. That is it. ANYONE -- whether family, friends, business partners, and now whole regions of the country -- who relies upon his word as his bond has been burned. The day my...
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    Another newbie looking for educational references

    Guy Cohen (sound option basics) and Alexander Elder (sound business basics) are about the only authors I recommend, earliest books being the best. Brett Steenbarger for your head, and Van Tharp for a different slant on expectancy. Al Sherbin for later on.... I can not remember ever having never...
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    What's it like to live in Puerto Rico and trade futures and futures options contracts for a living?

    Your question asks the blind men to describe the elephant they're touching: there are at least half-a-dozen "Puerto Rico" community types available. Your biggest constraint right now is internet signal, then sewer, then electricity, then water, then healthcare services, then food, THEN shelter...
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    how to separate trades into different strategies?

    As well, any QuoteMonitor pages (and their trade-related labels) can be set up to be strategy specific. And can be changed with a mouse-click or two.
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    Kim Klaiman's Steady Options

    Reasonableness will get you nowhere. :D
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    The Best Trading Proverbs

    I thought that was Master Yoda, spoken millenia ago, in a galaxy far, far away...?
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    Three indicators you cant live without??

    Heart beat. Respiration rate. "active" EEG. :D
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    Any tips for me i have been paper trading for a month made 1786 thousand with a 10k acount and im 14

    Right away, start on a second 'curriculum' of teaching yourself e the Normal Distribution and the basic idea of Reversion-to-Mean phenomena. Go back to Mr. Bollinger's Bands and see if they are breached on top as often as on bottom. Find some data and develop the MACD: describe in a single...
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    How many round trips per day per instrument scalping 3 to 5 ticks

    My big "Ah-ha!" moment in tick-scalping was realizing that what made for a rich, ripe-for-harvesting environment was not a random thing, and that I could see that portrayed with a Technical Indicator or two. :wtf: And so, watching my trade experience under different market conditions (and as...
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