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  1. tommcginnis

    About to blow up my account...help?

    Without specifics as to [instrument,strike,expiry], no one can address your positions in any detail. In the past, I have bought-back an ITM spread, and split/rolled it, e.g., with IWM at $150-ish, buying an ITM put spread at $155, and splitting it to $145 puts and $155 calls in the same expiry...
  2. tommcginnis

    It's time to short the market.

    Time for that Market_On_Close order, then? Sheeesh, Scat. :rolleyes:
  3. tommcginnis

    Which indicators measure how parabolic something is pretty well?

    A little caution: Algebra will translate any dual (two points [x,y]) to any graph. But a chart relationship (as per, "90°") will be destroyed as soon as the context [x or y!] changes in the least. Careful!
  4. tommcginnis

    It's time to short the market.

    Okay, I'll try again. :( A commercial product? Whose? Cost? Homebrew? What broker connection, if any? API? What language/version? If you wrote it yourself, how long did it take you? Are you selling it? Terms? Whether commercial or homebrew, if you were to recreate the system right now, what...
  5. tommcginnis

    Do you need to understand where the edge comes from?

    You belabor the obvious: Universal to science (and one might say, to *reason*), models are, each and every one, simplifications of reality. You seek to criticize it for being/doing exactly what was intended. That's laughable. Do you realize that it's 2018? And we still can't define "gravity"...
  6. tommcginnis

    Which indicators measure how parabolic something is pretty well?

    You're doing the Yogi Berra restaurant thing, but with small caps?? "Nobody goes there anymore -- they're too popular." So, if a smallcap pops up biggly-huge, you want an exit triggered (or a trailing-stop tightened)??
  7. tommcginnis

    Do you need to understand where the edge comes from?

    I certainly salute your respect of civility; I only point out that the gears of your science are missing some teeth.
  8. tommcginnis

    Do you need to understand where the edge comes from?

    Patently absurd. Childish in its black/white account - scary implications. (Alright, so, "not your best post," panzerman, but you can only respond in haiku. :cool: )
  9. tommcginnis

    Please, advise a reliable broker

    Okay, just to get real for a second: 1) As you're from Latvia, that's a security-of-operations question for which I have no answers. The place I would go is, http://www.fktk.lv/en/ I would inquire as to whether and to how much, are trading/investment accounts insured? By what company/regulatory...
  10. tommcginnis

    spy options

    Pushing a wheelbarrow full of steaks and pork chops through the lions exhibit at the zoo doesn't make you a zookeeper -- -- it makes you a meal. :wtf: :confused: :(
  11. tommcginnis

    what would u do?

    I would liquidate everything, immediately, until I had a clue. (Or, I would expect to go broke.)
  12. tommcginnis

    Chat room and Trade talks

    Huh?
  13. tommcginnis

    Please, advise a reliable broker

    Fidelity.
  14. tommcginnis

    Which indicators measure how parabolic something is pretty well?

    The difference between J4 and J5 would be the "Acceleration Factor" in the Parabolic SAR -- this might save you some time and screen clutter: https://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:parabolic_sar (...although, the tweaking and tuning and fiddling can...
  15. tommcginnis

    Do you need to understand where the edge comes from?

    This is basic glossary you don't understand. :( Think about why "leading indicator" is not a repetitive redundancy. :banghead: Look up the rest of the family: coincident indicator + lagging indicator. ;););) You'll thank me later. :D
  16. tommcginnis

    It's time to short the market.

    Fair enough, but the OP is a month-wide look back, with end-of-day data; the 'calls' themselves are multiday. So, little-to-no intra-day content intended. (And, it's just straight-up info: NO EGO! :wtf: Can you imagine?? I'm gonna keep an eye on this guy...;))
  17. tommcginnis

    Bond Yield Calcuation with HP-12c - Help, please!

    End-of-period-ism! Full Couponosis! :wtf: (Takes you back, don't it??:D))
  18. tommcginnis

    It's time to short the market.

    Curious as to what graphing/charting program that is.
  19. tommcginnis

    Which indicators measure how parabolic something is pretty well?

    The Parabolic SAR is quite flexible, and has 3 parameters to it. Have you understood and worked on each one? A price|time combination becomes a single point on a graph of time. An angle is a ratio, not a single point. If what you wish is a function which 'increases at an increasing rate'...
  20. tommcginnis

    Anyone using indicators successfully for day trading?

    You realize that you just put all those guys with icebergs, and all those guys posing spoofs, on the floor with laughter, don't you, Mr. RobtheQuant, HFT, OBE, OMG?
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