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no volatility, and a one way market driven by a few large, arguably overvalued tech names. hedged positions, shorts, backing away from junk debt at near record low spreads, and concerns over debt build up will lead to underperformance.

well said.

One of the partners is going to move on it appears and the broker dealer will be dissolved. They will be refunding deposits to traders this week. Andrew, Chris, and the rest of the team were a great group of people and provided their traders with excellent service. Meanwhile, the fact...

matlab is great for modeling, poor for execution since it's not event based.

oh boy. another one from the left admiring a communist system where government has the power to missallocate capital on a massive scale and do it quicker than here. Soon my friend, you will see that the system you admire is poised to come to an abrupt end, and will be revealed to be the...

would a bullish version of this OTM directional butterfly work equally as well as this? One bearish player positioning for further weakness in the EWJ initiated a put butterfly spread today. It looks like the trader purchased 13,600 puts at the April $9.0 strike for a premium of $0.28 each...

say you thought things would at least stabilize and potentially reverse sharply and be up say 0-4% 1 week out, and maybe at a new high 3-6 months out. What structure would you use that would get a very favorable risk:reward of 1:5 or maybe even better? A bull put spread would take advantage...

tradelink - could one use your software to trade a large basket of equities from tradestation's radar screen?

http://www.marketcetera.com

backtesting exits on your discretionary trades is just one of many features. trades are overlayed on charts, and there are a myriad of helpful stats - time of day, by volume, MAE/MFE, etc. $50/mo. Manual uploding is not necessary as IB and many others supported for uploading trades. (no...

if i'm interpreting rogoff and reinhart correctly, if the debt is external, debt default is more likely, if the debt is domestic - the high/hyper inflation route is often chosen

take a break and review all your trades, see what works, what doesn't. score future trades based on setup, trigger, exit. trade small. confidence is a byproduct of success, not a precursor.

take a break and go back and review all your trades, overlaying them a chart. use a service like stocktickr.com if necessary. reviewing trades has changed the fortunes of many traders. often one thinks they know what they are doing wrong, but it's often biased by a few trades. research...

the market rebounded 100% in the year or so following the '29 crash, the start of the last global financial crises, only to hit new lows. there aren't many global contractions on record to study, but ken rogoff's work is a good start. his research shows most to recoup all losses within 3 years...

you can try pair trading the along with the treasury bond or other interest rate future, while some use the term structure and other interest rate differentials.

this would be a huge opportunity for the US to gain back some of the business lost to London after sarbox, and get a ton of flow, listings, and business. hopefully the leadership of our country will look at it this way, rather than an opportunity to take more money out of the pockets of citizens...

stagflation. not something in the keynesian playbook

this is not all they do, they also may match quotes in the market and provide additional liquidity, but they also provide ongoing quotes - replacing market makers at less costs, and when they are hitting bids and taking offers, it's because they are keeping stocks from getting too far out of...

in the 1987 crash, specialists and market makers refused to answer their phones and walked away, where prices dropped 21%, not an extra 5%. the nyse shut down trading in ge and acn so their specialists wouldn't get hurt - there's your buyer of last resort, not to mention the litany of fines and...

china bubble.