Good thread.. I'll bet you look at the long-term successful people options, futures, or stocks (just substitute the word 'pairs' for 'spreads') -...
How long they been in business too - Echo, Bright, others they been around > 10 yrs that counts for something..
The whole idea of making an intelligent judgement of how sound a daytrader 'prop' firms finances are make no sense to me. Anyone can lie or...
That long post was nuts.. 'not in it for the money' WTF is that about! Emotional fulfillment? If so, get yourself into Gamblers Anonymous..
I judge it by - what risk is the firm putting up. Must have a contribution? You're a customer. No contribution/profit split = contractor....
THT ain't Goldman. If you have the academic creds - right out of college - I'd go with the Wall St firm over the no salary profit split for...
Pretty decent website at least - THT.. Too bad so often you need a 'top tier' academic record. Those lucky kids already have options in the...
sorry - meant Golden Market Management
Anyone who had traded/trades there have any opinions about them?
This is pretty big.. Your prob of success is levered alot more on your vig than people talk about - they're too busy chatting up (and selling)...
http://www.mbtrading.com/ Brings their commission down to ($1/100,000) 0.1 pip
Brandon, hit me up if you're interested in possibly doing a JV. I've got a few promising EAs. These are real trading strategies, not the...
How much do you have to put up?
Bright has a point.. Asking Bright (or GS) to put your automated code on their system without review - given the attention lately on HFT,...
That's only $250/day. Not so unreasonable.. You don't need any more than $5k put up for that.
Hey - do you guys short vol by selling out of money calls and puts simultaneously - then buying them back when vol decreases - or how do you play...
Seems you could scalp using the future or the spot. This for EUR/USD, not sure about the pound - but, if you need finer granularity than 1...
I think the stocks, gold, and oil taking their cues from the dollar. A dollar rally during the day has been killing any stock rallies. Those...
Was thinking about that yes.
Just looking for some future that's highly correlated to the EUR/USD. I have used options, transaction costs too high. I'm fading extreme...
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