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OMG. The TIME I have wasted. The VALUABLE time I have wasted. Tradingview is just SO not ready for Prime-time. Dirt for balanced operators, crap for documentation, poor-ass in execution-without-quirks. I went there because I thought I could easily access historical data not available from...

IB and TWS do not exist for graphs (or analytics or news or education or whatever else), they exist for trades. All else is secondary. The sooner you get comfortable with that, the better. :cool:

"Whattttt!?!?!" :confused::banghead:o_O Errrrr, no. What you're contesting, OVn, is Price Theory. You're arguing against 150 years of neoclassical economics, the Chicago School in particular, and Stigler, Friedman, Becker, right to Freakonomics authors Levitt & Dubner. It won't go well. Your...

That was *nearly* a hot-tea spew moment. Saved it at the last second. But oh! The wisdom in what you wrote..... :rolleyes:.....

THE EDGEWORTH-BOWLEY BOX!!! (Sorry, but this seems to be a day where everything is taking me back to grad school...) :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_box

Thank you for the compliment, Sprout, but it's only a difference in vocabulary. I'm not asserting that one party has any more control over the relationship than the other -- it *is* a relationship, after all. And if one sees the Beverly Hillbillies' initial shack, and the other sees the mansion...

"Perception" by whom? If you think [your] red stone is worth $20k, and I think it's worth $200, what am I going to pay? "Consumer Sovereignty." "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandem." (( WOW! DO NOT Google "rhino turds" "images" or "videos". I'm totally serious here. Just don't. Just don't do...

Kinda like rhinoceros turds, right? Yeahhhhh. No. By the way, your insights of how gold is of higher demand than brass miss the fact that gold does not tarnish, which makes it *wonderful* in both jewelry and electronics. Your insight into silver being prized over steel misses the fact that we...

Rhinoceros turds are in limited supply, yet somehow we have managed to keep worldwide markets open without they're being in active trade. What you're proffering Baron is Say's Law -- Supply makes its own Demand -- which does not fly so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say's_law What flies a...

This is not a thread about Trading & Emotions so much as it is about Trading & Relationships. And issues in our relationships demand that we 1) make sense of them, and 2) resolve them. Certainly, others are rarely in a position to help in 'resolving' relationship issues. But as far as making...

I just can't imagine what it would be like without one. I think we'd all need 'gaming' computers -- that's what my big one is/was, and it's now... "mid-fi" or something. :rolleyes: The laptop, FWIW, is a Toshiba, and is flimsy total JUNK. Prior was a DELL that I had for many years/upgrades --...

Good point. I've spent years generating lots of commission :( -- with my own {trend-exploiting} changes, 2019 will be a different animal: EOD signals, once-a-day trades, with spreads (and a VIX>15) in very opportunistic fashion.

With IB's TWS and a massive spreadsheet set-up, my different computers (8-core, 4-core, 2-core) are nearly untapped and running comfortably cool. RAM (16g, 8g, and 4?g), similarly happy. GPU/CPU balance has not been an issue. What has *really* set these guys alight is as soon as I bring in any...

If you were to stare at your screen for a long while, and were to work up in your own mind the kinds of pricing/candle behavior into which you'd wish to gain further insight, and were to *calculate* those behaviors, and then *graph* them -- you'd come up with something that looks terribly close...

What is the difference between a TP exit with a fresh bracket order, and a "let the runner run" trade with a trailing stop? $$commissions$$. Exiting a trade while knowing you're going to re-enter that market with a fresh trade and fresh TP/SL brackets, is just spending money needlessly. :wtf...

Three quotes to consider -- each with it's own, very important, point. Please enjoy. “The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of...

Well! A mystery as to how to match candles with no part <2720 to a declared 2719.x close....:banghead: BUT WHO CARES?!? as the OP gets 3+ points on their long at today's open.:wtf: "Phew!":rolleyes: :D:D:D

Muffhands, I missed where you stated your actual strategy: Are you long or short? Puts or calls? How far out are you trading? This whole discussion pivots on the answers to those questions. Option strategies' individual bearing on probabilities of "success" depend not only on market movements...

If you design a "complete" (in your estimation) data set first, with a minimum of observations but all the fields ("and more!") that you could desire, AND THEN scale it up, you'll be in a better position to judge efficiencies. But the way you're going about it now (methods first, data sources...

Being a cheap-ass ((:D)), I would suggest you go in the other direction: set a minimum-n sample size, of the most current data, and run your analyses. (Let's say, 6 months' worth.) Then run it at 1 year, and see the effect on PnL and risk (and the whole gamut of system checks, right!?!. Then...