i've followed the thread a little off and on, and that post hit me like a ton of bricks! so God gets the credit for the good things and you get...
my policy is to do whats fair, even if its not in my personal best interest. you cant control other peoples actions, only your own. granted, i...
i have never been involved in a trade that someone wanted to bust, or a trade at a price that was "clearly erroneous." but i would suggest the...
if i remember right, i was not impressed either when i opened my account at IB. but i wired the money and i was trading within like the next day...
please let us know how it turns out.. i definitely wouldnt sell now, not with a big profit for padding. IMO wait a week to be sure, and then...
whew, now that i have my 100th post out of the way! (see the "suggest a tagline" thread, it was a doozy :)) i wouldnt've even noticed except i...
the blind leading the blind.. http://elitetrader.com a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gamblers Anonymous i was just going along with the...
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vhehn and limitdown got it right.. look people.. do you think the prop firms are in business to hand out money? you think they should be a...
it's pretty simple.. there's all kinds of support trendlines between 905 - 925. if the spoos break a few of those.. time to short! personally...
are you sure its an MM and not some homebrew traders program?
i dont think there is any regulation against shorting an IPO.. just most brokers dont do it because the shares are hard to locate for a while. i...
you were right.. you were going long (i.e. buying) a butterfly spread. whoever took the other end of the trade was risking $5 to make $0.35, and...
plum is correct.. they are electronically traded mini (referring to the margin requirement) contracts on S&P500, nasdaq-100, and dow indexes. i...
save your money until you have a small stake ($10k+) and then start trading emini naz-100 and S&P futures. the leverage and commissions are as...
sounds like they are simply doji candles. basically a squat is a bar with a higher volume than previous bars, but producing a lower price...
you need as much 'screen time' as you can get.. since you want to focus on TXN, watch it trade as much as you can. watch the price fluctuations...
at the profit target, there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't let half the position ride with a trailing stop.
if it works, it shouldnt be hard to get money to trade it.. one contract is $2k margin ($3k to be safe). heck.. if it works, i'll code it, fund...
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