Recent content by meltedcandles

I trade on a 2010 17" Macbook pro with 8GB of Ram and a 512 ssd (aftermarket upgrade) hard drive. I have windows 7 in bootcamp as well as parallels. I typically boot my Mac right in windows if the only thing that I am doing is trading. If want to have any other applications open, I run...

If you are consistently profitable trading 1 to 5 contracts per trade, it makes scant sense to have more than $10K (depending upon the instruments of course) sitting on balance with your clearing firm. $5K is a good size deposit for someone trading small with good risk management in place.

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I have been using SC w/ Rithmic for the last 6 months or so. I hated SC at first, but have grown to really love it once getting over the initial learning curve. I just downloaded R/trader and will play around with the for execution. Thanks...

Does Rithmic / SC allow you to place server-side orders? I have been reading through the SC support forum and I am having a hard time getting a definitive answer on this.

Both you and Ol' Yella raise a good point about the ninetrans guy. Not one of his blog readers, myself included, thought he was pulling down anything less than 2 or 3 grand a day. Then he posts his trading statistics and it turns out he's making less than me... and that's bad. I am sure his...

That's a great question. I have only used TOS but I am wondering what others have to say.

I used AVPlayerHD on my iPad. I uploaded all of the course videos right to the AVPlayer and they play great -- no need to do any file format conversions.

Thanks for your thoughts Tonkadad. I've read through two of his new books and I am giving strong consideration to picking up the course.

Can anyone who's purchased Al's course provide a review?

Thanks Swan Noir - I am going to give Rithmic a try. Although SC isn't ideal, it's one of the better charting platforms I've seen, and I feel like I've tried them all. I am a former long-term IB customer -- great firm, just not a good match for me. Thanks for stepping up and suggesting...

I have been considering signing up with Howard. I've always used SC for charting and I am considering TT for data? What do you use data?

Of course it's true that Islam or any other religion for that matter could be a total hoax. That's not what I am debating here. The OP clearly believes it is a religion, so I am saying that based upon what he believes to be fact, Islamic banking is somewhat of a fraud, just like western...

Hey, the muslims are a fan of Jesus Christ too... he is their second most important prophet after Mohammed. The Muslims have their jihadists and the Christians have their self-righteous, constitution-hating, warmongers like Rick Santorum. As far as Islamic banking goes, I agree with...

For most traders who have studied Al Brooks and are acquainted with his primary setups (i.e. "Best Trades") there probably isn't a whole lot to learn from the book. Volman discusses 7 setups and each have their own chapter. I've gotten through the three chapters on trends and 2 of the 3 setups...

I spent some time paging through Volman's book and he seems to be the real deal. He is clearly a better writer than Al and the book is almost enjoyable. Although Al says that his sole purpose is "to take money from your account and put it in mine," I don't think that's the whole truth. Al...