Recent content by BlackPanther

I am of the unfortunate kind that seems to need a fair bit of sleep, more than most. Should probably start exercising more. But I did read about something called "Polyphasic" sleep - is quite an interesting subject. A guy called Steve Pavlina apparently did it and blogged about it for over 6...

SoCal, I too use tight stops as I tend to only enter high probability setups, although they are mental as opposed to actually placing them and involve me at least initially watching Level II pretty closely. Unfortunately Laser does lack good stops, they have a client-side stop system but I...

SoCal, I believe with IB stops are held by them, and executed when the specified price level is traded through. Whilst MMs/Specialists cannot specifically see your stops in this instance, do remember that a lot of traders tend to place stops in the same place. IB were pretty good, if...

He hasn't asked for anything but help in finding a firm with the lowest fees. He's given details of his volume and trading record - probably so any prop firm could verify these figures and appropriately risk categorise him. Rather than writing messages like "haha", why don't you go and try...

Hey, I'm not a scalper as such, but a user of Laser in combination with an X-keys keyboard with all of the buttons custom programmed for particular types of trades. You may want to look into that too. I am very happy with this setup, certainly beats fumbling on a keyboard to hit particular...

I should really give up eSignal, I meant to ages ago - just grown attached to a few of their features :( Still having some issues, although it appears *slightly* better than before. Got MSCO bid 38.37 whilst NSDQ ask 37.89 on JOYG right now. If only that was real..

What platform have you guys been using? eSignal's been absolutely messed up for me, and not just today. A screenshot here shows some really weird quotes - and there have been much better (or worse!) examples of it that I've been seeing. Laser has however been working fine for me though.

An "interesting" set of responses so far. It seems the majority of people focus on the problems of Brazil, ignoring progress being made... all the more opportunity for those with vision.

Hey notouch, When I was in the UK my ping times to the US weren't too bad - as long as servers were east coast (Interactive Brokers) I recall my ping time being pretty good - around the same as your ping to bloomberg.com. What might be quite a good idea to do, is request an IP address from...

Hey Jorge, My charts are playing up - some of them MNST, GENZ for example have no bars between 13:39 until 14:02. Obviously there is some sort of a problem...

Hi Kastro, An interesting perspective you present, that trading opens the doors to an entrepreneurial future for yourself. Perhaps this is the reason that you don't find excitment/contentment within it - you see it merely as a gateway? Similar to those in careers who are saving up in order to...

Sandy, Excellent & inspiring post. Unfortunately, as a lurker myself (and not quite yet a trader) - I've noticed a great amount of negative and pessimistic people on forums (not just here). I imagine it's because they don't generally have better things to do, and haven't found the discipline...

Volk, I'm new to these forums, but would just like to give you my thoughts: Go for it! We are unfortunately only around on this planet for a comparatively short amount of time, and based upon the past: Neither the stock market nor Law School will be disappearing anytime soon. My...