Questions tagged [trading]
Trading means exchanging one item for another such as goods for money. In finance, trading refers to the buying and selling of securities such as stock, options, or futures. Related tags are day-trading, trading-volume, and online-trading.
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Trading on Charles Schwab shortly before the market closing time: "Your request will be processed on a best efforts basis. "
I placed an ordered to buy some ETF on https://www.schwab.com/ shortly before the market closed and I saw the warning:
Please Note: The market closes in approximately 3 minutes. Your request will be ...
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What are the upsides and downsides if one's currency exchange order is routed as an odd lot order instead of IdealPro on Interactive Brokers?
I placed a currency exchange order on Interactive Brokers from EUR to USD. Since the amount was below 20kEUR, Interactive Brokers told me that the currency exchange order would be routed as an odd lot ...
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Tax on stock transaction and day trading
In EU countries like France and Belgium, each stock transaction is subject to a tax from 0.12% to 0.3%. That means that a day trader buying and selling all his assets the same day would pay up to 0.6% ...
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How to properly hedge indices futures NQ by selling leveraged index options TQQQ or SQQQ?
Is there a formal futures NQ vs TQQQ options contracts hedging ratio calculation/strategy to tap on the fast decaying value of weekly expiry TQQQ options thereby creating an asymmetric risk-reward ...
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Do CFD brokers ban profitable clients from trading on their platform, since these clients make them lose money?
Many CFD brokers make money from trading against their clients and profitable clients make them lose money. This is similar to how casinos operate. Casinos ban profitable customers. Do CFD brokers do ...
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How do we trust power of compounding with mutual fund SIP
When I search for SIP Mutual fund plans, often I see huge money returns in the long run.
But when I research, it's usually mentioned as Power of compounding, that's how they're able to return such a ...
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Is my algo trading illegal?
I have algo trading program (written by myself) and when it detects that price are going down it's going to sell shares (if I have one) wait a couple of sec/min and buy the shares on lower price.
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DOW Mini Futures Options Liquidity - Symbol YM
I am trading on the Interactive Brokers TWS platform. That is the name of the broker and the platform they offer that I use. I have noticed that there is almost no liquidity on the YM Mini option ...
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Is the geometric mean of the price really equal to 1?
If we assume that the geometric mean of the price is 1, then the probability of a price drop of 20% should be equal to the probability of an increase of 25% (0.8*1.25=1). If so, then we have a trading ...
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Terminology to describe period of time when return is negative?
These chart show the value of SPY in 1996 and 2009
Please refer to the scenario (screenshots in the link above) where someone purchased 1 share of the market in 1996, and sold at the trough in 2009.
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Option trading to avoid overnight fees over a short position
I do a lot of short selling as a day trader. There is a pattern that I trade often. This one asks me to short and keep my position for several days. The problem I have is that the broker charges too ...
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How to Close Delisted company's short position?
I have shorted OZON and YNDX last year in FEB before suspending trading and after suspending was not able to close these positions. As Companies now are in delisted mode, Broker is not giving chance ...
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Comparing option deltas of significantly different underlyings
Please help me correct or confirm my intuition about options deltas. My understanding is that delta is the change in an option's price given a $1 change in the option's underlying. Moreover it's ...
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selling covered calls below my average cost
I have this stock more than 2 yrs and wont go up , I am planning to sell covered calls all my shares just to return my capital ... example my average cost is 5 and I am planning to sell it at a strike ...
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Red candlestick and volume bar on trading view
On trading view, I get the idea that if closing price is less than the opening price, then we will get a red candlestick on the price chart, and if closing price is greater than opening price, then we ...
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How do the practicalities of futures contracts for commodities work?
I know in principle how future contracts work (and correct me if I'm wrong):
Essentially, provides a contract holder with the right to buy a commodity in the future at a given price.
This part, and ...
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Using two stop limit orders instead of one OCO order
On KuCoin, I want to protect my positions with Stoploss/Take profit, but as we know sl/tp is only supported with Futures trading and not Spot.
So, I decided to go with OCO (One Cancels the Other) ...
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Why the chart on Binance differs from that of TradingView?
I started to study trading just a couple of weeks ago and am currently practicing with binance mock trading (futures perpetual). The problem is that on binance futures website it shows, for instance, ...
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What are the downsides, if any, of purchasing bonds on the secondary market instead of the primary market?
Let's ignore the transaction fees from my broker, which tend to be higher for the secondary market. Are there any other downsides of purchasing bonds on the secondary market instead of the primary ...
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Does a limit buy marker order ABOVE a price threshold exist?
Contrary to a classic limit buy order, I would like to trigger a market buy order only once the price exceeds a certain threshold. Does such an order type exist?
(From what I understood, if I send a ...
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What happens if I place a stop limit sell order with a $1 limit?
Let's say I am looking to sell a Bitcoin on Coinbase if the price drops to a certain level. This sounds like a perfect use case for a stop limit order. So I set my stop price at the level that I want ...
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Is there any currency conversion charge (including suboptimal rate) when purchasing an ETF whose underlying assets are in a different currency?
Example: Amundi Index Solutions - Amundi S&P 500 UCITS ETF C EUR. Traded in EUR but underlying assets are in USD. Assume I buy it from an assurance-vie account based in France. Is there any ...
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How market orders are filled?
When we look at the stock price S of a stock, then if I am correct S is equal to the average between the highest bid and the lowest ask for this stock. Hence since the highest bid is lower than the ...
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What's the difference between Expense Ratio and Ongoing Charge?
I read morningstar's definitions of Expense Ratio and Ongoing Charge:
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/glossary/138894/Ongoing%20Charge.aspx
Ongoing Charge: The Ongoing Charge represents the costs ...
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Judge the amount of money to trade
I have been day trading for about a year. I got some statistics on a stock market pattern. The latter gives me an 82% probability of occurring and an expected gain of 13% per trade. I'm having trouble ...
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How is it possible to buy call options with a strike price below current market price?
I'm a newbie with all of this. I've been reading on call options and from my understanding, you're paying some "premium" to buy an "option" to buy the stock at a certain fixed ...
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Head & Shoulders and Bullflag Rectangle patterns [closed]
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SELauVQ1Tk
The above video describe several pattern with high degree of success. I would like to implement two of them, i.e. Bullflag Rectangle pattern and the ...
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How to calculate combined win rate of two strategies?
Let's say I have two strategies with different win rates and expectancy, how would I calculate combined win rate without actually calculating each result (only use win rate and expectancy)?
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How do market-makers make a profit in the bond markets?
Do they sell at ask, buy at bid? Meanwhile, investors buy at ask and sell at bid. So, do the market-makers profit from the bid-ask spread?
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Why is EUR/CAD market open now?
As far as I know the Euro follows London times (closed right now), and CAD session is almost the same as USD session (closed right now as well) so why is EUR/CAD market open and trading right now?
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What's the relation between free margin and drawdown? (and leverage)
I'm trying to understand whether different leverages can affect the drawdown in forex/CFD trading.
I have noticed that given the same lot size, the bigger the account leverage, then the bigger is the ...
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Selling covered calls when the contract is over 5x the cost of the stock share
I just discovered that a stock I've held onto a few hundred shares of for a while, which is currently trading for about half what I paid (under a dollar a share) has an options contract for a covered ...
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How would one profit from an accurate forecast of tomorrow's price varience?
If one had a reasonably accurate forecast of the variance of the price of some market security, such that one knows approximately what the price variance will be tomorrow, but not whether the price ...
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Risk Per Trade Calculation
I have a little confusion regarding my risk per trade management. I am unclear if I need to calculate this absolute amount each time with the new account value or the risk per trade is calculated once ...
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Trading options and stocks under $1 per share at Charles Schwab shortly after the brokerage account creation
When creating a brokerage account at Charles Schwab, I see:
January 05, 2023: Funds post. You can buy most securities, but we restrict withdrawals and trading of some securities, including all ...
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When price is sitting at a Resistance Level, how can I tell if it will go "Up" or "Down" [closed]
I am looking for some advice in this area.
I was doing some "backtesting" and charted the following image here (on a 1 Hr Chart):
This is using a "Pitchfork" (which looks as though ...
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How do you analyse components of Index option to help you get more accuracy while trading options?
Suppose, you trade in options, Option index comprises of Many stocks, so how do you analyse those stocks in order to determine the movement of price in options while doing intraday trading?
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When to use a "Take Profit Limit" order vs a "Limit Order" to take profit on an open position?
Assume that I go long 100 XYZ @ $1,000, and I want to close the position once the price reaches $1,100.
I can see two options,
I create a "sell limit order" for 100 units @ $1,100
I create ...
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What happens when I buy a stock?
I am curious about what happens under the hood when I buy one share of APPL at market price on robinhood.
What happens if there is someone else on robinhood is selling one share of APPL at the same ...
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Is it insider trading to purchase shares in a competitor?
I work for a publicly traded company, and part of my compensation includes stock. We've gotten a bunch of (recurring) training of what not to do with this stock to avoid insider trading -- for example,...
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What's the difference between a commission fee and an artificially inflated spread when executing a trade?
I read on https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-11-29/Fidelity-Crypto-is-a-go-4-5-trillion-firm-launches-retail-crypto-trading.html:
The platform promises “commission free” crypto trades, but the company ...
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Why do some cryptocurrency trading platforms require users to use the platform's native crypto token to access the platform?
I read on CNBC:
FTT, the native crypto token that gives users access to the FTX trading platform.
Why do some cryptocurrency trading platforms require users to use the platform's native crypto token ...
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Can I buy index funds without margin and own it like a stock?
I am a total newbie so this might be a silly question but I am trying to buy S&P 500 and own it like a stock.
The problem is that my broker (XTB) only has the option to buy it with margin and ...
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Why less leverage is allowed for cryptocurrency Spot trading?
I realized brokers and exchanges allow high leverage for Futures, Options and Forex listings but not so much for spot listings.
For example in Kraken Futures you can get 50x leverage for BTC-Perpetual,...
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A fee of 1000$ is requested to get refunded from Blockchain
Good Morning all,
I hope to get an answer to this question.
I have been scammed from cryptocurrency platform. I have received many calls of people who wants to help me recover my money.
Recently, I ...
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Futures trading pre and after market hours
I use $tick indicator as a guide for over bought/over sold conditions for futures trading. However it only works during market hours. Does anyone know of something similar that works in pre-market or ...
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Value a stock by Last fulfilled order or by closest ask/bid?
Im trying to dumb down stock pricing.
Let’s say there is only ONE stock on only ONE exchange. You can see ask and bid list and also finalized trade list.
Now, if you would show the current price or ...
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Is there a way for me to benefit from a call option I bought before a reverse split even if I'm out of the money?
I bought an "option to buy" contract of [email protected] for a 0.10 premium. $60 breakeven for [email protected]. Unfortunately the company had a 1/15 reverse split and now my contract is for 6/100 @0.5. Which ...
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Position size calculator which includes fees in the risk
Problem:
I have a position calculator for scalping, but currently it does not include entry/exit fees in my risk calculation.
Since scalping, in most scenarios, requires leverage, those fees really ...
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How to view Chg% in separate pane on the Trading View web application?
Basically I want to visualize multiple ticker's Chg% which is on the right side of the charts in a separately new pane. If someone can explain in steps, I'll be really grateful.
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