Recent content by fallingcold

Go to school. It is one of the best times in life. You'll make friendships that will last the rest of your life. You have 3 more years to be carefree and enjoy life without worrying too much about money, and you can still trade part time while at the univ. You may find down the road that you...

Happy Birthday and thanks for sharing your mistake today. FC

I suggest moving on and letting this go, hard as it may be to swallow. Having sued a former employer is much worse than being fired. It doesn't sound like a very strong case, and you could end up with nothing or a "nuisance" settlement. Either way - there's another black mark on your record. Who...

Good one!!!

If you decide to program trade, my advice would be to take a programming course at your local university. Yeah, it takes some time and it's a pain in the butt, but you'll learn it a lot faster and make connections with local programmers. One semester should get you a good start. FC

Another option is to demo trade the US market in the evening. When you take vacation, you can trade for real. Maybe at some point you can move to part time as a step towards your goal.

Go for statistics with a heavy dose of probability and computer programming. The relatively new computational finance degrees look interesting (if I were younger). Pay is good too if you ever need to fall back on that. FC

I think this may actually be a semi-workable idea (and legal) and it's not so much a tax evasion scheme as a tax minimizing scheme. But it's probably not worth it unless you're making a very high income from trading. At most, it only accomplishes for you getting around the limitation you say...

I was looking at PFG as I'd heard their customer service is good and the commissions they were quoting me were good too. I'm new to futures trading so I liked the thought of good customer service. I see they have been two actions against them by NFA and one by CFTC and have 25 CFTC...

anyone? I can't be the only one who reads the fine print :confused:

I'm about to open a futures account. In reading the fine print of one broker I see 3 things I don't like. I'm wondering if this is normal or something I should be cautious about. 1) they list no fees in the fine print or on their web site and when I ask they quote me commissions but say...