Other traders should never have to pay the bill for bad traders. 100% of whatever a trader puts up is his hard cutoff. I would say 70-80 is when...
Hey Mav, let me chime in just for fun. I think there are atleast 2 models that make sense: 1. Model for profitable traders * Give them...
hey dude. I've seen so many posts of yours pumping that shop.. dont you get tired. Why not conduct your business with a little more ethics and...
I hate it when you have to tune a bunch of different things for things to work properly; for most common tasks it should work performant right out...
I do pretty much the same. EOD ES and option trades at one firm; intraday ES at a couple of firms - just for redundancy etc. But now that the two...
A little more info. But if for one reason or another you choose trader status you loose 60/40 status - since all p/l will be treated as...
Awesome house Lescor! -gariki
About an year ago i lost a PC - same clicking sound of hard drive and then complete silence. After wasting a ton of time i reckon the harddrive...
I understand why shareholder vote is required for issuing additional issues; but for splits (both forward and reverse) nothing changes in the...
I would be very very surprised boba even for someone as sharing as lescor to post what you want. Its just a pain to go back all those years and...
these threads on ET are so funny. I just read another thread where some guy was posting a ton of nonsense and saying he is buying crudeoil calls...
I know that. And thats why i care about his capital contribution only a little (but its still useful information). I am more interested in the...
Lescor, is this still based on roughtly 100k of your capital. What would you say your average capital usage was? (i believe you were using about...
Dow 30 is a good list; liquid. Similarly any other liquid list is good. But.. you are exposed to close to 1 correlation. In long stretches...
Yes talk to a good trader tax accountant. But AFAIK, you can carry back only if you trade through an LLC or have filed to trade under "trader...
ah. makes sense. Thanks! -gariki
you're right; got confused between notes and bills. We were talking about t-bills here. 4-Week Treasury Bill Auction Results and Additional...
oops. i meant t-bills; not t-notes. But i get what you are saying about t-bonds and t-notes above. But t-bills given that they are so close to...
No. We are taking about t-notes here. But even if they were bonds and have maturity in the next few weeks, same deal.
oh they do. Didnt know that. But that doesnt make sense because with 0% yeild if they rally past 100 they loose to face value upon redemption. So...
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