Mark, Any suggestion on how to find other Tradestation users in my area? I tried posting on their forums - no luck. Similar results with ad for short term traders in a local newspaper. I'm in a smaller city (Buffalo). The local IBD group are just buy and hold folks. Brooks
I am not the great Mark, but there appears to be a daytraders group in Buffalo. try meetup.com http://www.meetup.com/Day-Traders-Support-Group/
Hi Bear, Thanks for the message. I did go to a meeting with that group and still stay in touch with one guy. But they are not TS users and they are discretionary and I was looking for traders leaning more to a system/methodical approach. Brooks
I agree! Skype and webex would be a big money saver vs. a bunch of guys sitting in front of monitors, and only talking when it comes to "what's for lunch today?" I use gotomeeting, and it works well for me. Haven't tried webex. Gotta say, if Bolimomo tells you something about computers, you can take that to the bank.
Trading from home... In the late '70s, I was part of a financial services group.... my share of the overhead was about $7500/mo. We had a "falling out" and broke up the business... I started trading from home in the early '80s. My overhead dropped to about $1,000/mo... most of my current expense is computer and data related. That has saved me ~ $2.2 Million in expenses. Plus, I go to work in tennis togs and can drink beer at 10 AM if I want... What's not to like?
as i sit here looking out my office window at my mountian view and listen to the birds in my yard while i trade in my custom built office i am thinking wtf is this guy smoking. why would anyone want to drive to a city and go to an office?
You're killing me! I still have an office as I manage retail $$$$ I'd LOVE to be able to do this from home wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sipping iced tea. I am seriously considering only having Client meetings at the office, and doing all of my work from my home office.
I used to manage a mutual fund timing service... before the fund managers got tired of our exchanges and kicked us all out... I had the dubious distinction of being banned from trading in > 20 mutual fund companies' funds... :>) Never met with local clients after the initial sign-up. For the non-locals, never met with them personally. A fond memory was a comment from a client.... "How can you be in business of managing money when your phone is not listed?" LOL! Clients had my phone number, of course... my phone is still non-listed.