Recent content by Hypersky

So you have admittedly never taken the course, gone through the subject matter etc, but are somehow qualified to authoritatively speak about it as if you have ? Interesting. :)

Out of curiousity have you taken either of his two courses ?

Hehe...no its not Anton. I did manage to figure out how to get it done in IB. You have to create a virtual security that tracks the spread, then monitor the individual long short equities separately in the rows beneath. There's no way (that I know) of creating an executable stop loss or profit...

Sounds like the $25 book at Amazon would be the best option for you in that case.

Clearly there's a business component to what he is doing in terms of selling the courses and mentoring, but from meeting him, I also get the sense of a bit of altruism to help introduce retail traders to methods used by professional investment bank and hedge fund traders. After taking the course...

Personally I see no problem with him charging a fee for his courses and other services. I've bought both his courses and am more than satisfied with what I paid for.

The example you cited involves going long/short two stocks in the same sector, which is probably one of the more conservative ways to hedge. You can also hedge cross sector (higher risk/reward) as well as cross market (even higher risk/reward). It all depends on your risk appetite and world view...

I bought the course, took the test, and am trading in the program. Definitely one of the best investments I've ever made.

I recommend Tradesight. They have a 6 month stock mentorship program for about $3600 . I'm nearing the end of the course and its helped me immensely. The course is split up over 18 modules that are delivered through video presentations and you also get private one on one sessions with...

BTW, apologies if posted in the wrong place. :)

I'm considering opening an account with IB. Does anyone have any experience building a long-short portfolio with them, consisting of say 10 long short positions as stock spread trades (stock 2 divided into stock 1), where the ensuing ratio is traded ? I've scoured their site and found quite a...