This may be a long shot, but I'd like to throw this out there. I come from a prop background that focuses on scalping, and I'm looking to move...
Yeah, I agree. Might be because there's probably been a lot more people flocking to online trading since then, as it's a very new industry. Less...
Ah, so you're saying in that case his ability to push it down .15 would be limited as the order could be immediately passed through to liquidity...
So you're saying a specialist will no longer be able to gap/up a stock for a cleanup print but will instead send it off to other exchanges if...
Two threads that have helped me a lot when it comes to understanding the mechanics of the NYSE tape. This is an old one, so some of you might...
I've talked to so many different prop traders and but your experience seems to be par for the course. It's unusual to see this since a clean,...
Your rate is absolutely awful. For the volume you do now it doesn't matter, but you will see once you begin to do even over 10k shares a day that...
Large size for me would be 3k shares. But really, it's such a subjective issue that depends heavily on the capital, holding period, and risk...
I've wondered how often mechanical systems are designed for anything shorter than swing or position trading. I have heard of black box algorithms...
Oh sure, I agree with you that no flexible trader can be pigeonholed into just one holding period, and that these definitions aren't absolute. I...
Thanks for the revision, ChaosNSX :)
Unfortunately I can't modify the poll. Won't be a representative data sampling then. Arg.
Oh god, of course! Sorry. Rewriting post.
Just a quick poll to get a sense of what style most traders on ET seem to prefer. Let me know if I left out a popular option (I don't know much...
They're the same person, or at least a few of them are. He's also on target w/r/t Freud, though the unnecessisary verbosity doesn't help much.
FNYS is not a chop shop. Much more respectable. Chop shops are standard day trading firms that regularly recruit new traders and look...
Actually I forgot, Oldtrader also. Folks like that keep me coming back.
FuturesTrader71 Also, haven't seen many posts by lescor, but when I do they seem to be very insightful.
I have a feeling the market will sell off, but not necessarily because of Sharon. We're at the top of the established range here and today's...
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