Think about the following: a) How much risk in terms of time/capital is each 'trader' taking? b) What rewards do they expect to gain...
I thought "PI" was a good movie about the stock market.
Hi Dizzy, Would you mind giving one example of where it is possible to use a tighter stop? thanks
This is a real eyeopener Dizzy ! Great posts. So what it seems you are able to do is have the risk of a scalper (1pt stop) but have the gains of...
Maybe IB can add a 'trailing alert' to TWS instead. That way the trader can just watch the market when it approaches their trailing stop area and...
OK, so the market does exhibit a normal distribution with the exception of major market crashes? So one can expect most of the price action to be...
Hopefully a math/stats guy can shed some light on this question. Does this standard deviation calculation apply to the stock prices? (i think...
No problem. Check them out for yourself, I believe they offer a one week trial which is more than enough time to assess if they are right for you.
I have checked out the trading room before. I believe it's a great atmosphere for education and developing the right mindset for the newbie...
Hi, Does anyone know of a site that has an historical archive of past trading holidays? tia.
I am experiencing slippage of .5pt 15% of time and 1pt 5% with stop market orders ...for stop limit do you set election price .5 pt earlier than...
Yes he's supposed to be from somewhere in Belgium, and about to take on Larry Williams record trading the ES....
Supposedly she had a commercial hedging program in the metals markets (Watermark Fund Ltd.). But it didn't fair too well...
What NIC card is recommended?
http://www.msnusers.com/EliteTraderUncensored/daytrading%2Emsnw
World co should just pay up to advertise here as well.
Standalone is much better I find having the IE box loaded up while trading distracting. Plus I'm not too sure about IE stability.
I stand corrected :p
Not possible. Any single trade over 30 contracts will be executed AON at one price (not necessarily at best bid/offer).
Easy way is to think of it as the THURS prior to the SECOND FRI of the expiration month.
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