Recent Content by Chitown

  1. Eurex Comes to US Markets

    Nice try but as was mentioned before there is no way to get a good fill on Eurex or any screen on any order of size. Too many institutions have...
    Post by: Chitown, Feb 26, 2004 in forum: Index Futures

  2. Eurex Comes to US Markets

    Most media outlets were saying that as well as all the Chicago newspapers had huge articles about Eurex putting CBOT under.
    Post by: Chitown, Feb 25, 2004 in forum: Index Futures

  3. Eurex Comes to US Markets

    Forget about the Ags. Bottom line is every media outlet was touting the Eurex as the end of the Board. There are locals in the pits doing as...
    Post by: Chitown, Feb 20, 2004 in forum: Index Futures

  4. Eurex Comes to US Markets

    So much for those "BIG PLAYERS". Eurex is doing about 1-2% of the volume of the CBOT screens. Today I think it was about 1/2% across the board....
    Post by: Chitown, Feb 20, 2004 in forum: Index Futures

  5. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    The "same income" isn't an assumption. Both positions offer the same...28k draw. So I'm not sure where you are coming from but feel free to...
    Post by: Chitown, Dec 17, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  6. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    So if you had two offers to be a prop trader, one at a futures firm and one to trade equities, with a 28k draw at both, the futures firm looks...
    Post by: Chitown, Dec 16, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  7. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    I was wondering if you could give an opinion on pros and cons of trading equities or futures...assuming Pay and commissions are the same (I know...
    Post by: Chitown, Dec 16, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  8. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    Great post Momo...both positions that I am going to interview for pay about the same...30k first year but both are a DRAW! I always read about...
    Post by: Chitown, Dec 15, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  9. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    Thanks, I have interviews with a futures and a equities firm after the first of the year in chicago. Neither requires a cap cont. I have heard...
    Post by: Chitown, Dec 10, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  10. Prop Job trading Futures or Equities

    I am wondering what would be the pros and cons of trading the two. From the perspective of a job seeker looking at taking a Proprietary trading...
    Thread by: Chitown, Dec 10, 2003, 23 replies, in forum: Prop Firms

  11. Pit Traded "realtime" charts?

    NO shit, I was just making a point, tool, that your supposedly real time quotes aren't close
    Post by: Chitown, Nov 1, 2003 in forum: Trading Software

  12. Eurex, Chicago Exchanges get ready to rumble

    They are passing buttons out at the CBOT...."LIFE is better without YOUR EX" They are trying to do what they can to limit the Eurex. It didn't...
    Post by: Chitown, Oct 31, 2003 in forum: Index Futures

  13. Pit Traded "realtime" charts?

    The market reporters are way off, they usually have a bull horn or speaker to remind traders that the boards (at the exchange reflecting the pit...
    Post by: Chitown, Oct 31, 2003 in forum: Trading Software

  14. IB Mobile Trader w PALM i705

    OK, the other handheld available is the Compaq iPaq not a Samsung. Both Compaq and Dell have agreements with the Board. The handhelds are...
    Post by: Chitown, Oct 29, 2003 in forum: Interactive Brokers