please think for a moment about the following: when a new trader starts trading, he will make certain losses and blow at least a few percent of...
i guess the ultimate logical step would be: simply forbid daytrading for every private trader. advantages for the "big boys" (nasd members,...
that's right - but there are probably lots of traders who started trading this year and learned about the rule when it was already too late.
airspeed - better send a tape :(
why don't you guys write a letter to president bush? this rule is a serious intervention in the free market access. the point is, that in a...
i haven't yet traded futures - but for what i have watched so far, i guess there are at least the following advantages: futures (i think mainly...
dkamp - the problem was fixed - but not completely i guess. the livecharts quotes didn't correspond with the tws-quotes for the rest of the...
DT-waw - i noticed the same issue, the livecharts seem to have a problem today with e-mini quotes as well as nasdaq-quotes and some other ones....
i guess for many traders there will come the time, when one asks himself about all the sense of what he is doing. i mean - you sit in front of...
thank you Kirk - as far as it concerns the STOP-issue, i also read that there are some troubles. but that's no thing for me too - i never...
the thing with the one routing option would also be an advantage for me i guess. as i read in another thread - trading the minis with ib...
thank you all for the very helpful postings. what you said is pretty exactly what i considered about this topic. i plan to trade the nq...
ok - just another amateurish question: it seems that futures-trading (for example the e-mini nq) has certain advatages: high leverage, no...
thank you all for your replies. things are much clearer now for me. but the fact that futures aren't solely used for their original purpose -...
tntneo and tradex21 - thank you both of course - for every short there has to be a long - but isn't it mostly the same for stocks? what is...
i wonder about the following: aren't (also) the futures a considerable factor, that contribute to the current downtrends? if so - i wonder,...
i guess one point is, that EVERYBODY should consider daytrading as a business just like any other one. and like in any other business there can be...
great topic of course - after watching the markets for several years and trying different styles of trading (in various markets) i started out...
ok guys - i catched it. it's certainly a question of trading style - for example trading extremely illiquid markets can sometimes be a big...
as far as it concerns protection for the broker - i guess a broker like ib was not at risk at all - since they will strictly liquidate any bad...
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