Recent Content by AskSlim

  1. Look out below?

    Did anyone notice? This drop in the stock market started the moment it was announced that two NYSE seats sold for $1.3 mil, down around 30% from...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 23, 2003 in forum: Trading

  2. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    It's not the NASDAQ that inforces NASD RULE 2520. It's the brokerage houses. If you make more than 3 day trades in a week, with US broker, you...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 22, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  3. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    A friend of mine used to trade there, some years ago. I can't say I know much about them now.
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 21, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  4. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    I find that most traders struggle when trading in multiple methods. The problem is that day trading and swing/position trading use different...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 21, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  5. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    I think it is very difficult to dance between many different methods. The problem is the markets change character so often that you have to keep...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 19, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  6. Free Seminar for New traders

    Ken, Your point is very well made. I appreciate when a person can express themselves in the intelligent manner you did here. I learned from...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 19, 2003 in forum: Politics

  7. Free Seminar for New traders

    How is the offer of a free workshop that may benefit traders on this site considered spam? SPAM is unsolicited mass emailing. Anyone on this...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 19, 2003 in forum: Politics

  8. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    Murray, Thank you for your kind words. The statement you refering to reads; "It's how the markets differ from these ideal cycles where the...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 17, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  9. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    No, I do not know how the distributer will handle that. I know it is supposed to be national. Slim
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 16, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  10. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    Not in the form we have them now. I can't see them losing their fanchise, however. The NYSE will figure out how to help the specialist maintain...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 16, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  11. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    This is actually the first month the magazine is on the newstands. It has been published for over 2 years with a subscribership of over 100,000....
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 16, 2003 in forum: Psychology

  12. Commission based on Volume

    Echo is a good company. I'm assuming you are a series 7 and get great use of your funds. That more than covers the difference of getting 1/2...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 15, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  13. ES Tape Reading 101

    Scientist, Excellent reply. It sounds like you are a very nimble trader. And yes, for a scalper or an arb in the e-mini market, the depth of...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 15, 2003 in forum: Index Futures

  14. ES Tape Reading 101

    I disagree with this. It is true that many of these large orders in e-Minis get pulled. It is not because the orders were placed with intent of...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 15, 2003 in forum: Index Futures

  15. Traders' Most Commonly Asked Questions

    During the first 6 months of my trading career, back in 1974, my mother asked me to quit and sell my CBOE seat several times. My father and...
    Post by: AskSlim, Oct 15, 2003 in forum: Psychology