Recent content by azdansmith

I have been in the mytrades room and another room for quite some time so I thought I would give my opinion. I trade stocks and options in my IRA and I trade futures, specifically the S&P 500 and Dow eminis. I have been trading full time for almost two years. I consider myself a "newbie" trader...

Perhaps this "horse" has been beaten to death but I will add my two cents here for what it is worth. I trade futures for a living using Ninja Trader/Zenfire. I have automated and backtested many strategies and run some of them automatically against my live account. Even though the NT data feed...

I have had good luck with Vista and the conversion was easy for me. The most important thing is to check with your broker to make sure that they support vista but I would have to think most do. I use Ninja Trader, Think or Swim and Fidelity and they all work just fine with Vista as well as with...

I have three laptops that I use at my home office and then while away from my office as well. I have two HP DV9500's and they work great and I have a Toshiba that works great as well. They are all hooked to external monitors and will work great for trading with almost any video card, yes even...

I have traded stocks, options and futures. They all have their own merits, but personally, I prefer to trade index futures, specifically the Dow eminis and the S&P eminis. You get many good trading opportunities every day and the high margin is a great thing when you learn how to manage your...