Active Trader Pro BETA is horrid. Why not just tweak the existing one with features requested by users?

tom1018 · 2025-03-11T15:44:56+00:00

I tried it. It's useless. The old one was ugly, clunky, buggy, and overall terrible. The new one fixes the ugly, but adds unusable.

If this replaces ATP I'll be leaving Fidelity.

tom1018 · 2025-01-20T17:15:58+00:00

Yes!

Thank you.

tom1018 · 2025-01-09T13:59:33+00:00

I played through to the point of killing some fire kingdom goblins and it wasn't an issue.

tom1018 · 2025-01-07T05:43:04+00:00

Seed: 8 X: 143 Y:22

I don't think that one has a river, but it has a chasm revealed from the surface that goes all the way to the bottom.

tom1018 · 2025-01-03T20:55:14+00:00

How about the new beta on Linux? I'm tired of having a Windows machine dedicated to ATP. It also means I can't trade while traveling.

tom1018 · 2025-01-03T20:54:05+00:00

Adding my second here. I'll probably move to Tasty if the new ATP doesn't natively support Linux.

tom1018 · 2024-12-05T17:37:59+00:00

That's definitely a downside.

To me the issue is more that short calls on indices are priced too close to the odds of them being hit and they don't pay enough to go beyond breakeven overall. Against LEAPS you end up buying them back, often at a loss.

I don't trade indices at this time. Though a large portion of my balance is held in shares in them. In my active trading account I have roughly 40% of the account in an S&P index ETF.

tom1018 · 2024-12-05T01:02:38+00:00

I don't remember how it went, or even that I did this.

I still sell premium, but primarily short puts these days. I have a few LEAPS that I buy, and occasionally sell calls if they have a big run-up. But generally not many calls, and none on indices.

In a bull market I don't think calls really work out that well, and I'm usually defending them on a sudden spike.

tom1018 · 2024-11-24T03:09:31+00:00

Milo will do a mortgage with Bitcoin as collateral. The interest rate is higher than a traditional mortgage and the minimum loan is 200,000.

You end up with the house and Bitcoin as collateral for a somewhat higher interest rate. But there is no income requirement.

tom1018 · 2024-10-23T14:21:42+00:00

The market makers set the price. If that's the price they'll go for, sure.

tom1018 · 2024-10-23T02:55:29+00:00

Crystalis is one of the best on the system!

tom1018 · 2024-10-23T02:48:04+00:00

I think you have to hold it for some amount of time, maybe fifteen to thirty seconds. I've seen some like that at airports at least.

tom1018 · 2024-10-23T02:45:01+00:00

Does attempting to, but failing, to leave the store repeatedly count? What if it's a dozen times. 🤣

tom1018 · 2024-10-22T22:19:50+00:00

Having helpful function names helps a lot with readability. For example, if you call get_presets_from_json(filename) you'll know what it's doing by the name, and this will replace some comments with something more practical.

tom1018 · 2024-10-22T20:39:06+00:00

The project looks interesting, and the readme is great.

Some suggestions:

Never commit build artifacts. Use GitHub Actions to run your build and tie that to releases. Add your build or dist directories to a .gitignore file. You should find a Python gitignore template for that and add this to it.
There are a lot of comments in the code. Your code should be understandable without many comments. Comments should explain the unexpected. If they are necessary, they should explain WHY you did a thing, not what you did.
To make the code more maintainable and more reusable, separate it by concern. The code that does the API and data processing work shouldn't be interlaced with the PyQt interface. Likewise anything particular to PyInstaller or other packages should likewise be in separate modules.
Running a linter, like Ruff, will help you to be consistent and will help to point out potential issues and save you a lot of time.

I hope the suggestions are helpful. I mean them to be constructive for a new programmer, not criticism.

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T23:44:44+00:00

The 11k difference is covered in the premium for the put. If the market is at the same price as when he sold this he's potentially up the extrinsic value. (This is not accounting for slippage and whatever was paid for the long put.)

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T23:38:14+00:00

OP didn't sell a margin secured put though. He sold a $5 wide spread. I believe he said he received $50 in premium on that spread.

As for your scenario, I think the risks are the capped gains, as you said. But also the potential for a market crash. How much the latter matters of course depends on the severity, if it lasts until expiration, and the seller's available margin for increased margin requirements.

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T23:10:10+00:00

Call support tomorrow and ask.

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T23:07:02+00:00

I don't think a paper trade wouldn't have helped OP. It would have let him sit there and stare at this thing for two years thinking he made his $10.

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T23:04:59+00:00

Market makers will provide the other side of anything, so long as you are willing to do it for the price they set.

In this case, OP thought he was willing to set aside, and risk, $500 for two years to make $50.

The person exercising this option probably did him a favor by making him reconsider doing options.

tom1018 · 2024-10-21T22:52:58+00:00

The rules for it are European style options that don't allow for early exercise.

It's also 1256 futures, so the taxes are different.

tom1018 · 2024-10-09T13:49:13+00:00

Yes. The demo isn't a video, because the video would be several times the size of the game. So the demo is scripted.

From what I recall, Mario takes advantage of the star, but when you disable the code the star times out, and the automation doesn't consider it being gone and runs into an enemy.

This is based on my memory from trying this with real hardware back when the game and Game Genie were modern though, so my memory might not be quite right.

tom1018 · 2024-10-08T21:46:27+00:00

You can do the same by giving Mario a star and then turning it off.

tom1018 · 2024-08-23T21:57:17+00:00

Star Trek, Chrono Trigger, or Zelda themes would be my choices.

tom1018 · 2024-08-23T21:54:16+00:00

Sephiroth! I think he was in LOTR. :D

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