Recent content by Nightowl45

if i were these guys i would be hesitant to put up more capital whether i had it or not. it sounds like this firm is in trouble. if they both have positive accounts there's no reason the firm should change the rules and come to them for capital like that, that's bs. get outta that sinking ship...

I thought I remember Don Bright saying 10k full time pro daytraders. Sounds about right to me if you use some reasonable cutoff like NYOB suggested 500k shares traded per month. But yeah no way there's 100k traders meeting that criteria, much less millions. The majority are in NYC metro...

I've been trading equities full time for about 3 years, including time at a fully-backed prop firm. I subscribed to the T3 Live service and was so impressed that I recently joined T3 and now trade in their office. This thread came up in office conversation and I said I was more than happy to...

down 2680 on 30k. tough day for me, not trading well. 10/15 up 1150 on 30k 10/16 down 550 on 82k 10/17 up 750 on 32k

up 2300 on 53k shares. wasn't that agressive in the afternoon, feel like I missed some opportunity, but I guess that's better than being on the wrong side.

down 1750 on 132k shares. new high volume day for me, was probably overtrading. need to settle down.

up 2400 on 47k

down 570 on 84k tickets. pretty heavy volume for me on a slow market day- i am probably overtrading.

up 2800 on 50k

up 1100 on 66k

up 640 on 30k shares today yesterday up 1400 on 12k shares, took off after open

down 1050 on 23k shares. will the pain ever stop...my worst two week run ever. heading out of town.

rough week so far: 9/24 +200 on 23k shares 9/25 (-1700) on 16k shares 9/26 (-1200) on 3k shares 9/27 (-200) on 32k shares After 9/17 I was up 6k net for September. Now I'm down $3k net. I'm up slightly gross but it won't even cover my ecn/taxes. Tkt average about -$1.20/1k...

up 1050 on 29k shares. almost back pos for the month.

down 1350 on 38k shares. yesterday was down 950 on 20k shares. i'm definitely struggling. was up over 6k for the month after monday. now i'm down 1200 for the month. my 3k account is at 1800, i'm cutting back my size to try to avoid blowing out and hope i can get back to pos for the month.