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  1. tommcginnis

    The market is seeing something we dont see yet—

    Evidence, schmevidence. :banghead: :D
  2. tommcginnis

    Best technical options books as of 2018

    Yeahhhhhhh, Good Luck with that. (Which is to say, I don't know of one. I have tried a bunch, and been disappointed. The best I have found to do is just go for the math explications -- there are a few, but two authors who's books/papers I value are Ross and de Weert, and two subjects on which...
  3. tommcginnis

    If markets are a Zero-Sum game, is the PPT making $ or subsidizing everyone on net basis?

    ((The world is flat. Investopedia sez so. And when there's a short-squeeze in the futures market? That's just external players siphoning off their blood portion...")) :banghead::banghead::banghead:
  4. tommcginnis

    If markets are a Zero-Sum game, is the PPT making $ or subsidizing everyone on net basis?

    pinetboltz -- for the sake of your own trading, pause here and learn the difference between zero-sum, positive-sum, and negative-sum games. Then go *really* think about the difference between a transaction, and a market. This stuff is not hard -- but you're (apparently) getting your opinions...
  5. tommcginnis

    If markets are a Zero-Sum game, is the PPT making $ or subsidizing everyone on net basis?

    Please please please, before any more babblings about what is or is not a zero-sum game, could posters actually just pause and GO LOOK IT UP. (And fergawdsake, not on frikken investopedia. freakin' com.) NO ASSET HAS ANY SORT OF LOCK on whether trades are zero-sum, positive-sum, or negative...
  6. tommcginnis

    Where do I learn day trading?

    Send me US$1295.00 (WAIT! Today only, and for you only {or for anyone else you know or have ever met}, a special price of US$795.00) Then, re-read Palindrome's post. Weekly.
  7. tommcginnis

    Market evolving

    "Patterns" as named entities are meaningless. A Japanese Candlestick is a *wonderful* graphical representation of 4 pieces of data -- 4 observations -- in 1 piece of time. But that's all it is. There is no magic; there are no secrets. Consider this DIRTY LITTLE SECRET: if you take an hour's...
  8. tommcginnis

    Break even calculation

    "If a train leaves a station westbound at 45mph, and another....." so, set them both in an equation = 0, and then solve. More intuitively: put 'em into a ladder: 3*1251 in one column price it up to 1261 (so, 10*300) in a second column (et cetera) And then in a third column (5*1261) and then...
  9. tommcginnis

    Adjusted Stop shortcut in IB/TWS -- not sticking

    No help here, only sympathy. (But I have a buddy who'd love to get this to work, and wants me to assist, and there is beer involved. :D ) My ill-informed opinion is that this is not so much a bug exactly, as it is a software under-enhancement. There are half-a-dozen around, and *sometimes* they...
  10. tommcginnis

    americans. for us europeans: do you still feel like patriots after your government knocked down the

    What's the matter, Vlad? Getting bored? Mr. Mueller taking down your message-mules? Awwwwwwww. ("Trading"?? No. Dumb dumb dumb Shittttttttt, probably. Do we have that sub-Forum?)
  11. tommcginnis

    Market evolving

    Get used to the idea of impermanence -- it will help you survive. As far as how to deal with that impermanence day-to-day? Get used to the idea of "telescoping" -- where you switch from 1min to 1hour to 1day to 1week (or whatever perspective-changes work best for you)...and back down -- a...
  12. tommcginnis

    Its Here

    I totally get you, but I think we've discounted all the positive news (fundamentals-wise) from last week, lost in the noisome Orange Sauce that continues to sway headlines and breed uncertainties (and thereby, sell-offs). That downswing-in-spite-of-good-news reminds me of an S&P p/e below 10.0...
  13. tommcginnis

    Where do I learn day trading?

    What does a MACD reading of 0.0 mean? What's the difference between Williams %R and Lane's Stochastic? (Or between those two and the MFI with flat volume?) Know how to put anything on your screen into a simple, meaningful sentence besides "Buy when it points up, Sell when it points down."...
  14. tommcginnis

    Its Here

    B.T.B.F.D.! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: (("Hello-oooooo!" Single-digit p/es on some of the biggest names out there? Continued U.S. fundamentals' soundness? A decrease of *growth* around the world? And for the first time in a gabillion years, FINALLY prices that reflect long-term average...
  15. tommcginnis

    Its Here

    Possibly one of the best posts on ET in 2018. Way good -- :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
  16. tommcginnis

    Vote here if you think this is the beginning of a bear market of 2018?

    *Really*. *Really*. ... ... ... Tell us about your April trade. The short one that NEVER got green between April and SEPTEMBER. The one that went *hundreds* of S&P points the wrong way. Tell us about that. Tell us about that one. [this is where that eating-popcorn emogi gets used, right?] o_O
  17. tommcginnis

    It's the best time to buy TQQQ

    I could cause Sustained Fusion Reaction to be a doable, economically feasible thing, merely by shorting the market right now. :confused: But I agree. :thumbsup:
  18. tommcginnis

    Bad Catalyst: If Trump Impeached

    Comrade Geenard, the economy is just fine, and does not care a whit about Agent Orange. Please give our best to Vlad. :cool:
  19. tommcginnis

    Vote here if you think this is the beginning of a bear market of 2018?

    Every day, I look at my broken grandfather clock (set at 10:00), right at 10:00, and remark, "Still works." :cool:
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