Its not so much the learning path but the crazy-ass language you were using. If anyone on this site, no matter their level of experience, can decipher what u said, I must say I'd be impressed! lol
If your concerned about liquidity and trade intraday why would you be interested in trading for investors , virtually any return per trade traded intraday would compound you up to your liquidity concerns (1000lots)( considering your already at 100 lots )???
In C you can move $25 million worth +, sometimes closer to $50million, before you'd take out an entire level and make it move a penny.
why in the world would you want to down leverage to enter the world of stock trading? Seriously...anyone trading 100-1,000 ES lots need not trade stocks...I'd forget it!!
If you are planning to scale up to 1000 lots you should look into the big contract. I've traded well over 100 lots on the ES and partial fills are common, depending on a variety of factors. I tried 100+ on the TF once -- only once! What a nightmare that was. I was on the wrong side trying to get out at b/e and just about chewed my fingernails to the bone waiting to get hit. If your game is good on the ES I think you should look into the big contract before jumping to equities. You may even find some arbitrage opportunities trading the two but obviously so is everyone else in the your position. Isn't competition grand.
I tried this. It works for about 1 or 2 trades and then the MM or Specialist catches on pretty quick and all of a sudden the gig is up. If the OP tries this it will blow up in his face. Been down this road. It's like an ant trying to pick a fight with an elephant. At first the elephant doesn't even notice he's being picked on but when he does he just squashes the ant. Remember, it's not you against a MM. It's you against an army of MM's.
Wow, you are the second person on this short thread to recommend trading the big S&P without a clue that it does no volume. Jan 13, 2011 Volume March ES 1,670,930 March SP 11,931 :eek:
Thanks for the reply. Advantage Futures is a great clearing firm with aggressive rates for volume traders. It doesn't correlate well with the ES, but another futures contract that does good volume is the 10 Year Note on the CBOT. On Jan 13, 2011 volume was over 1.2 million contracts.