Do you have to be a good stock trader to succeed in options trading? Probably no but it would help a great deal. When i see options people...
Sometimes I give market orders to IB on liquid instruments and I always get a fair fill. Over 10 years I do not remember e v e r being...
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The early version of EOD I owned was incredible piece of software but it was slow. I operated it with Yahoo data as I remember. If one clicks...
I do not know current pricing but I want to comment on the quality of various monitors. I purchased 2 new Samsung 21" monitors three years ago...
Just a note on wireless installation: because my brother has fat fingers, for a while he used an external Logitec wireless mouse with his...
I sense animosity and bitterness in your comment. English is not my native language so I may never learn it perfectly. In the meantime if...
I have never purchased a lottery ticket and I do not gamble because I can not influence the outcome of the enterprise and i am not smart enough to...
You can't in 2 tries:) BTW, if you were lucky and placed 4 marbles on each side and they balanced you would know the ninth one was the...
Good looks don't help you in trading so at least on that score the video was lame. Ethnic restaurants alter/adulterate their food for what they...
In NYC, as of now, TWS charts are loading properly. bc
For series that are themselves mean reverting like TICK, ADVDECL, Keltner channels and BB's work wonders. bc
The overswing of indicators depending on their nature(how they are constructed and for what purpose)and on the formation of trend structure on a...
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The rigs in operation count report (the last one was a surprise) is good for a swing sometimes. bc
I would second the recommendations for IB. IB is a truly global broker and they have offices/service centers around the globe including...
Congratulations. Being able to have a distance from trading and the market when needed is an advantage the retail traders have. Cheers, bc
The fist sentence is true for all markets, those factors contribute to an active market :). Prices may very well tend to move randomly but...
Excellent post. May I just add that not everyone is equally equipped to read the tape (as they used to call trading off price action) just as...
Depends on one's style of trading. In discretionary trading or in manually implemented systematic trading being able to discern the change of...
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