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TopStepTrader has a good educational program and chat room (Click on Squawk radio). Daytradingradio has some futures traders and they are developing tools more for ES traders. TDAmeritrade's Thinkorswom (TOS) has chat rooms and a lot of tools for futures traders too.

There are ways to win in futures trading but if you're underfunded, over trade or get too greedy, you're more likely to lose. You should trade like a sniper and not focus on home runs. You should trade 1 contract per $10k. You can get away with $5k to $7k per contract but not advisable...

Daytradingradio has a good group of serious futures traders with their own trading room. They are also developing some unique tools for ES traders too.

For a newbie, the best thing to do is study hard and learn everything. Find the answers yourself to your own questions.

I don't recommend Forex. It's not a well regulated industry. It's better to trade currency futures. I would recommend either you trade equities or futures. You will need to choose your direction first. If you want to work as a professional, go study your Series exams, pass them, and join a...

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If you want to day trade equities, stop trading, work hard, save up the money, and restart trading after you have $30k+ Investors Underground is the best place to learn this form of trading http://bit.ly/1mRR7YH Better thing to do now is to trade futures. More retail investors are heading in...

I use Easeus and I have no problems with them. I'm not crazy with the new interface chosen by Easeus but still use it for its reliability. They also have a lot neat tools to use. I stopped using Acronis after several images failed. I've used Paragon utilities in the past. Macrium is another...

They also hold your funds and prevent withdrawals for a certain time period. They also have higher requirements to get permissions to trade certain instruments. If you want options and futures, you have to meet certain income requirements. They basically don't want to play with small...

See if you can port the ThinkorSwim logic you programmed into IB's API and write your own little program. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041

From the Retail Firms thread for anyone interested. It appears someone saw my recent posts and started another thread. http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/use-das-trader-to-trade-interactive-brokers-account.286119/#post-4015476 It appears market data is handled by Das Trader Pro...

Colmex Pro through Tradenet UK is another overseas alternative based in Cyprus. You can not apply directly through Colmex Pro as a U.S. citizen. It is a brokerage firm geared towards everyone outside the U.S. U.S. citizens would apply only through the Tradenet UK program...

DAS Trader Pro and IB Anybody have recent experience with this? http://dastrader.com/subscribe_IB-new2.php

It appears around April 2014, Das Inc started offering DAS Trader Pro with IB. http://dastrader.com/subscribe_IB-new2.php You can follow their latest updates on their Twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/dassupport They appear to be expanding their mobile software.