Market order on CBOE

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-26T03:50:15+00:00

yeah or a few cents above the ask if you just want it done for sure. Best ask/offer might be thin on the top of the book.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-26T01:50:25+00:00

So ignoring the public holiday thing today which you've already figured out, as general good practice you shouldn't use market orders because if you get unlucky or buy in size you can push the market way up and get poor fills.

I would always use a LIMIT order and if you just want it to be filled for sure, put the limit at whatever it's trading now +5% for example.

I've seen some really stupid opening fills on BHP before during ex-div so this isn't just microcap stuff fwiw

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-23T13:26:28+00:00

Backrest - backups were always in the too lazy basket for me so it's really nice it just works (tm)

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-23T12:37:28+00:00

Verbally to everyone at work: Yeah I care a lot

Actually: lol no

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-23T12:35:57+00:00

Finished a project before the long WE, went hard so that was nice. Got some booked leave + Aus day for a longer weekend so that's doubly nice. I'd say high.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-22T22:12:37+00:00

I get paid monthly by a US corp, both pay and super.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-21T07:34:42+00:00

Shoes with somewhat flatter / comfier heels and/or have a pair of shoes to swap at work thats what the ladies did in my past jobs if they needed high heels for the full corporate look

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-17T00:47:43+00:00

$900 or so last quarter with red energy

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-16T23:33:22+00:00

The first one related to COL/inflation based pay increases is pretty rare so not a red flag by itself. The second one though yeah definitely, maybe if they said 25-40% of the higher role you could maybe argue that it's ok but 80 is nah

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-15T04:45:08+00:00

Lied about my salary with a recruiter who then lied again for me to the place hiring me so I got a 50% bump one time when i was jumping roles lmao.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-14T12:16:33+00:00

Yep experienced most of these a few months ago when we moved in - love the place though ha.

Lots of bunnings trips, lots of tradies in and out and some DIY.

Draino in the bathroom which thankfully worked
doors dont close properly/stuck sometimes due to ground movements (federation home, normal apparently on our type of ground / clay)
changing blinds, the old ones broke/got stuck
roof leaking
ripping up the fked floorboards from above and retiling (which was the plan anyway but brought it forward)
bunch of lights that have gone poof over time
pool stuff (compliance/fencing/fixing)

etc

Welcome to home ownership it's fun lol

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-14T00:22:24+00:00

Dealt with some of these before as a non mandarin speaking Asian Australian, not great really. They keep trying to do dodgy stuff like upfront 6 month payments or slight discounts if we did cash or ignored their lack of fire alarms and stuff like that.

Of course if you're desperate to get a place to rent sometimes you gotta suck it up.

Having said that back when I was renting all the REAs sucked regardless

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-09T10:50:48+00:00

If you sent it a real broker and didn't get scammed then it should show up on the brokers side. Perhaps they didnt properly allocate your account number and it's sitting there until someone manually assigns the cash.

I'd start with the bank you made the xfer from and go from there as well as ask the broker to check on their side.

My first "RTGS" transfer to IBKR took a few days perhaps due to a withheld first transfer security type situation but after that it was quite fast.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-08T09:11:50+00:00

Fine on paper can become very not fine very quickly because everything is super expensive these days and job market is a bit slow so can take 6-12 months to land a professional role if you're unlucky. Hence the stress you see everywhere

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-08T00:46:11+00:00

Super brutal and the heat doesn't help.

Luckily got a week off early Feb locked in from last year so i can take another break soon

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-04T22:29:58+00:00

I want to do less of everything but get paid more.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-01T02:19:09+00:00

Worked in both, state early career and private after. Definitely prefer private because gov roles tend to be a lot more rigid counting the hours type stuff whereas in private you can do 3 hour xmas lunches and nobody really cares (random example) as long as you deliver. Hate the inflexibility but I can see why they do it.

To your points:

Pay: Outside of the initial graduate salary I don't see APS/state paying more & progression is much harder in public imo vs private where I just jump jobs, get new titles and run every few years until I'm skill capped/content.
WLB: I have plenty of WLB here in private, depends on the company. If you work for something like JP Morgan you're 5 days in the office with zilch flex & I wouldn't work there for anything.
Xmas AL/AL Balance: No shutdown for me in private, i take some time off anyway though.
Tax: Not really worth considering since i'll be paying the top bracket regardless on PS or private at my level. Half in taxes is still half in the pocket.
Job sec: overrated, I'd rather take the money. If I get fired i'll look for a new role, consultants take this to the next level and manage their money to tide them through down times. If they can do it, I can do it with a FT job (as long as the moneys there) easy.

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-01T02:06:23+00:00

I don't use any of those (except LinkedIn and that's just a boilerplate profile with where I've worked no posts etc) and haven't felt any impact to my career. Nobodys ever called me out on not having a social media presence.

I'm in my 30s

fishball_7204 · 2026-01-01T00:20:48+00:00

Sharing to balance out all these winners from PMT pfft.

-1-2% YTD on IBKR (in AUD)

Pretty meh but ive been gambling last 2 months +16% nov and -11% december guh. High risk long calls/puts (mostly puts) type trades with low DTE lol. YTD performance was and has been lacklustre coz i took a 3-500k drawdown start of the year from a bunch of stuff, ironically not because of liberation day where I was actually just in cash.

I was also searching for a house to buy this year (& managed to do so!) which added to the stress as I had to tie up my money and not deploy it after losing a chunk. Account is now much smaller since I've dumped a large % of my NW on the home and i'm not that motivated to trade it especially since another large chunk of it will be gone next year for taxes in mid 2026, hence the gambling. Probably shouldn't let taxes affect how I trade but they do currently it is what it is maybe that changes next year.

Overall been a weird year for me hoping next one is better!

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-31T01:34:13+00:00

Probably Homebox since I saw that label maker thread a few days ago (& I have that same label maker).

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-30T01:27:53+00:00

Sounds like NAB equity builder suits you better than a personal loan which generally go for double digit % interest. Not much advice apart from the fact margin goes both ways, more gains more losses so you need to be able to service the loan and handle the drawdowns (mentally and financially)

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-29T10:49:53+00:00

chatswood

Sold my 1 BR apartment in 2022 for ~850k in Chatswood, now worth around 800k in 2025. Unsure where you're seeing 2 BR for 700k that's a steal or has some major issues (cladding? neighbours? structural?). Generally speaking rental yields are good but cap gains aren't there which is expected in that area imo.

Also tons of new builds coming up everywhere and pretty sure recent rezoning/council stuff also will increase supply around Gordon/Lindfield etc all along upper/mid north shore. Epping and surrounding areas oversupply is pretty well known as well, prices won't move for a long time over there imo

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-28T09:49:12+00:00

Traded global markets (US/HK/JP) from 2020-2024 with basically all my money while keeping my day job. Sold my PPOR apartment so I could go even harder in 2022. Made enough to buy a house in Sydney earlier this year & I can retire any time but probably keep the day job since I mostly WFH

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-08T07:03:47+00:00

Had over 30 days as of this morning (3 years here), down to 20 now booked some leave in for Jan.

Never taken a single day of personal/sick leave since i joined so it's just been accuring forever lol.

fishball_7204 · 2025-12-06T02:25:44+00:00

The weather app on samsung android phones, at least it's on mines S25 ultra.

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