I feel the only two paths to profitable trading is you either put on 1 trade a day or 100+. 1 If you put on 1 trade a day then you very...
Well I'm finally done with daytrading. I have almost 10 years trading experience. I probably would have never become a trader if I could've...
Every time you lose money in trading that loss is permanent - it disappears from you life forever. Lets say you lose 1k - you will never see that...
http://www.wbresearch.com/tradetecheurope/hftisdead.aspx If you though HFT bots were tough competition, here comes quantum computing bots that...
I think 90% of profitable daytraders are just market makers. They just supply liquidity without trying to outsmart the market. The daytraders...
Assume I want to buy some DEC 2013 QM if oil prices crash this summer because I think oil makes a big recovery next year due to inflation and a...
I wonder why ES has zero liquidity if you go out more than 3 months. CL, GC, and GE (eurodollar futures) have decent liquidity ten years into the...
There are so many ETFs out there that seem to be constantly decaying towards zero. UNG, VXX, SDS come to mind immediately but there are like 20+...
I'm self employed and I live in NJ. I purchased a BCBS plan by myself and I pay about 1300/month. I basically purchased the most expensive plan...
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Here is what I am looking at in TWS: Edit -> Global Configuration -> Presets -> Futures -> All possible fields -> Size and then the "Display...
2008-2009: Banks were insolvent 2011-2012: Banks + Developed ("1st World") nations are insolvent 2008-2009: Fed + ECB had nukes and all kinds...
I still can't understand why CME has stuck to the 0.25 tick size at $12.5/tick for ES futures. I think switching the tick size from 0.25 to 0.10...
Looks like its been 3 months since the last TWS release. No new features have been added since and I don't know if they are focusing on bug fixes...
ET will not be around in another 5 years. Baron has completely ignored social networking on this site and thus ET will lose what little market...
The game is Capitalism. The goal is to accumulate money. The Cheaters want you to believe that you can win the game by playing fair and working...
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The first 2 years were unprofitable the last 3 years were profitable but I'm stuck in an 18 month long drawdown. I'm just too demoralized and...
I wan't to trade the EUR futures contract (i think globlex symbol is 6E). If I type EUR I don't get an option for the 6E contract, I get an...
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