Why does OP restrict his search to "NYC area"? If he were ambitious and motivated, he'd be on the lookout for opportunities in the other 93% of the US also.
Because I live in southwestern CT. I don't think I'll be able to afford rent. I get the impression that the vast majority of opportunities are in NYC or Chicago.
> I live in southwestern CT Maybe call Murray -- an ET sponsor -- and see if he'd meet you and share his wise counsel? He's in Stamford, I believe.
I don't know who this Murray is. But Googling I found Brean Murray, Carret, & Co, LLC in NYC. That might be an opportunity.
Hmm the main question after your post was why you havent tried trading so probably you need to fix this Maybe not best quality, but ninjatrader is certainly better than Yahoo Finance - you can replay and trade each day in real time and its free of a charge. You also need some headstart of how to trade - I would recomend Mark Fisher book "Logical trader", I would skip all those stories books like Market Wizzards or Reminisences for a while, they will make a lot more sense after at least some trading on simulator with some kind of system (my recomendation ACD from logical trader, but you can try something else). I also have some replay data of CL so if you want I could send it to you and you wouldn't need to download each day separately (for some reason ninja only allows downloading one day at a time). Good luck!
Thanks. I downloaded Ninja Trader, but it doesn't provide the real time data. They recommend Kinetic, but it's not free. ACD is really expensive. I guess I won't be able to find real time data for free? Does your CL data work with Ninja Trader?
You can get FREE data from Zen-Fire, set up a demo account with Mirus Futures. Actually, eventually you will have to execute 5 RT's/month for free data, or they whack you $25.
I just looked up Bright Trading. They want $10,000. That's not what I'm looking for. I want a company who will invest in their employees, not have their employees invest in them. A company that invests in their employees shows me that they truly believe that they create winning traders. A company that charges for training tells me that they just want money and don't care how well their employees do.
I'm not Jane Street or bust, but I don't want to pay $10,000 to get screwed either. I'm looking on Linkedin and see that some people at Jane Street didn't go to top schools, although clearly most of them did. I also see a lot of people who went to UConn working at what looks to be some of the better firms. I don't know what else they did to get the position though.