Recent content by Panic!

Thanks. Dayjob is also related to financial markets, will still spend my days on a trading floor. :)

Okay, I'm done. Been trading fulltime for 6 months now, but bored beyond belief. Will take the remainder of July to unwind my portfolio, take a nice holiday in August and back to a job in September.

As far as I know, the only way a retail trader can use a dark pool is by becoming a private banking client and ask the bank to route your order via their trading desk to a dark pool. But if you're a small trader, why would you want to use a dark pool?

I planned for 2%/month in the first three months, so it's working out fine. If I decide to continue, I'll aim for 3%/month in the next three months. Largest drawdown so far was 4.20%, while theoretically I'm fine with drawdowns a lot larger. Plenty of room to scale. My main worry is becoming...

Yes, I didn't really see the point in keeping a journal here anymore. Still trading fulltime though. Up a little over 5% since the start of march. Will evaluate at the end of this month, to see if I want to keep doing this or go back to work.

Check your inbox.

Plenty of ETFs listed in Ireland or Luxembourg, I know blackrock/ishares has a ton.

Can you label the axes?

I don't see any issue in shorting a company you used to work for, if you don't have insider info. Don't know anything about the legal side though.

Don't do it dude, at the very least it is unethical. I remember that when I was preparing for the CFA exam, this specific example came up. Once you're short the stock, your interest is no longer aligned with the company's interest. In fact, you could potentially profit from sabotaging or just...

Edited: figured it out. Post can be deleted, but I don't see that option.

See if you can find the ICMA fixed income courses, that's what I went through about 10 years ago and there it is explained pretty well. Sure you can find the pdf versions somewhere. As of which specific securities can be traded by a retail investor, no clue. Don't touch that stuff myself.

Right, think I might have been clearer on the difference of interest rate vs yield. If people start selling fixed income instruments, the price of the instrument goes down. Say we're talking treasuries. If the price of a treasury goes down, it is cheaper to buy, but you still get the same...

Depends on your strategy. Without any details, it's hard to answer this question. I'm assuming you ask this because you want to optimize margin usage without losing money due to time decay. If you're using far otm/itm options, this won't be any issue, because intraday time decay will be close...

Because it signifies that market participants see uncertainty in the near future and want to be compensated for that. In a normal situtuation, interest rates are higher in the distant future than the near future. This makes sense because of the time value of money, and the fact that the distant...