I look to hold my stocks for as long as I can, so am not a daytrader. For me the easier money is in the longer time frames, I'm yet to match the investing returns I get from property (hold forever) with the returns I'm getting in the financial markets. Net connection is OK, about the same as Australia and half the price like most things here. I have a GPRS modem as a backup net connection, but as I'm an EOD trader this really isn't that important for me.
- 34 years old - Live in Chicago - Work in Glenview - Trading for 6.5 years. Mainly interest rate futures (US and German)
29 y.o., Part time trading, part time learning Started trading in Feb. 05 Started as active trader and witched to swing/short term trading in June/July. Toronto Canada
22 Los Angeles area -trade prop since July 2004, took 1 month off -traded mostly NYSE, a bit of NAZ -trade full time in between classes -computer science graduate student -work 10hr/week designing websites
30, part time trader in Atlanta (grad student full time). Started in equities 3 years ago, and moved to futures and options of futures about 1.5 years ago. Mainly spreads on interest rate futures, and options.
29,.. trading in SF been trading for 10 yrs equities, 6 yrs options, 5 yrs... futures. might move to India soon to take advantage of market growth..
Very curious. Were you trading the SP during a certain dark dark Friday ... and black Monday in October 1987? If so, was this the single wildest ride in the SP500 since then? thank you for your generous reply.