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My broker allowed me to trade 7 ES contracts. At first thought it was crazy to do and my broker strongly advised against it and told me to get good with 1 contract first. Anyway, I got the idea from trading stocks. I had a $36k account and used margin and often made $2,000 per day, some days...

Just saw this thread and wanted to share my own experience. I started day trading with no experience and a $37,000 account I had swing traded from $14,000. I was averaging about $3k per day and I would just pick stocks that had dropped and use all my margin buy/sell buy sell. No one told me...

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Stop creating accounts to support your own posts. Loser.

It's easy to demoralize people when you can hide behind your keyboard and never have to worry about being exposed yourself. You talk about profitable traders but I doubt from your attitude that you would know anything about being profitable. I'm sure you'll decline and even make an excuse...

Thanks for the link. Although the blog entry dates back to 2007 the comments are as recent as August 2010. Good info there.

Not sure why you've decided to write a multi paragraph rant when you have no clue as to my circumstances, finances, and experience but I can only guess that it's because you care. So maybe someone else will read this and benefit but it certainly does not apply to me.

Hi James, I am not licensed and if I don't have to be I prefer not to get licensed. I am not sure what a U4 is but I wouldn't have a problem with filling it out and getting finger printed if it would allow me to day trade. Are you a member of a prop firm?

I've seen all the posts asking for the best prop firm so I won't even ask. I'd rather hear from those of you that are members of a prop firm and what its been like for you. I have the 5K and I have experience. I'm only doing this to get past the 25K requirement to day trade. I don't need...