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  1. tommcginnis

    Proof TWS tick is broken for weeks and useless, misleading

    You're in error here -- the IB NYSE-TICK regrettably is glued to using MARK as its displayed TICK value. The closest-but-easily-available would be MID, but no. And of course, there is always direct calculation, but.... no. Anyway, you can see this if you put NYSE-TICK on a QuoteMonitor contract...
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    $75 million mansion is most expensive lakeside Tahoe house ever

    :wtf: Wow! Seriously?? It's maybe 10 miles, as the crow flies. That is amazing... This leanto is on the Appalachian Trail about 10 trail miles south of Fontana Dam (GSMNP border). Ooops. I just conflated Mr. Kazinski?? {"Ted" to his friends} with the numbnuts that murdered doctors and left a...
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    need help thinking through lifespan of iron condor

    If you're not familiar with the underlying, "Yipes!" If you've already lost 95% of what you're going to lose, then opening a 68/67//70/71 IC {as close as possible, to minimize ITM *purchase* of time value; but as close to revenue-neutral as you can manage} might represent a viable reward-to-risk...
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    need help thinking through lifespan of iron condor

    You are in a pickle, and it's way too late to 'adjust' out of this one. You're $3 under water, and have 3 weeks to go. (And on top, you can't even find a trade: dead market.) Time to GTFO. So the question becomes, how do you get 87¢ from the XLE? (AND perhaps, keep the risk at $1 wide? Or even...
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    Is there a way to measure ADR?

    There is nothing bullshitty about the study you present. It is reality. What you intend to use that study for, may suggest further effort, but the math is what the math is.
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    $75 million mansion is most expensive lakeside Tahoe house ever

    I will admit that my version of an "ideal mountain home" is a little more modest..... "Pleasant location; cheery neighbors in the morning; good water supply; federally-maintained access."
  7. tommcginnis

    Need Help choosing Processor

    W-2123 on eBay for $335 Socket R4 LGA-2066 https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Intel-CD8067303533002-Xeon-Quad-core-W-2123-3-6GHz-Server-Processor-W2123/152915885585?hash=item239a7f3e11:g:MpUAAOSwtBdajFdO Intel Xeon Silver 4110 eBay for $550 Socket 3647...
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    What is your FAVORITE indicator?

    I meant to comment on this days ago, but got distracted.:rolleyes: But I didn't realize that my own approach, basically, to consideration of longer-term market action -- like yours, tomorton -- doesn't really involve "indicators" at all, besides perhaps a 20/50/200 [SMA] cut. I forget that as...
  9. tommcginnis

    Dilemma

    Regarding your risk of wrist of RSI:D: 1) Switch mouse hands. It is a trivial thing to reverse mouse buttons: in Win7: ControlPanel/Personalization/Mouse "Back in the day" your fingers never had to leave the keyboard, and the load (per the QWERTY "Origin Story") was shared over all fingers...
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    Hedging Portfolio With SPY/SPX/ES Options?

    1) I don't know. 2) A VERY interesting question. (I mean, from all that's gone on lately, 'it could!') :(
  11. tommcginnis

    What is your FAVORITE indicator?

    Oh, I'm SAVING THIS ONE. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
  12. tommcginnis

    Hedging Portfolio With SPY/SPX/ES Options?

    Not just the multiplier, but exchange fees/broker commissions, as well. On IB, SPX is roughly 1.31¢, while the ES runs ~1.62¢. [so it's actually another 24% more. If you're piling $1k in commissions a week, it matters. If your commissions are $100-$250, it's a pizza.] Ohhhhh, you'd THINK it'd...
  13. tommcginnis

    Hedging Portfolio With SPY/SPX/ES Options?

    One quick observation: The ES equivalent will cost you roughly twice in commissions, as it carries a 50 multiplier, rather than the SPX's 100. A second observation: The ES is a CFTC beastie, which carries SPAN margining, which can be a ROYAL p.i.t.a. , The SPX options are an SEC thang, which...
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    What is your FAVORITE indicator?

    Sexy!! :D
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    Options on ES futures

    Some questions -- particularly those with ready answers via a search engine or from your own account/platform -- are best answered by those posing them, to find the best information, and to learn *where/how* to find that information. (I think I put that well.)
  16. tommcginnis

    What is your FAVORITE indicator?

    net liq. :D
  17. tommcginnis

    Options on ES futures

    Why in the name of Jumping Jehovah would you ignore the original post so utterly?:rolleyes:
  18. tommcginnis

    Overnight Pairs Trade - NQ and RTY Futures - Thoughts?

    And relatively speaking, if the wrong direction is chosen, and the pair do not "cross" again, the OP is in for an extended hold of a crappy trade. Sorry, but there's no other way to tell the tale: it's math.
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    Options on ES futures

    ES FOPS expire into cash, excepting the Quarterly which expires into the front future. (I think. You'll have to check on Monday.)
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