Recent content by Pyramid20

X-Study has both tick and volume charts. You can right click on any chart you set up and select "change interval" and then select tick and as for volume, many different calculations of volume (cumulative bid/ask, etc.) are available if you right click and select indicators. I think X-Study is...

I don't get it... You are hoping to make a career out of trading and you have professed that you have no edge in what you trade and that edge doesnt exist in electronic trading? Then why are you doing it? Market makers have edge. Locals on the floor had edge back in the day. Arbitrage...

So basically you guys scalp whippy markets all day (gold, crude, ES). Where's your edge in doing that? There are a number of futures props (at least in chicago) where most or all of the guys in the firm are trading like that. Are guys making a living doing this, and do you know this for a...

Agreed but having an ear to the floor is becoming unceasingly less and less significant because of the serious lack of paper down there. Sure it can't hurt to know what is going on in the bond pit if you trade bond futures on the screen but this isn't 2004 and most of the transition to...

Do not listen to the posters who told you to go stand outside the exchange and approach floor traders. This is old fashioned and sounds ridiculous to me. Further, they think you are wanting to clerk for a floor operation or screen/floor arb operation. You don't want that. You'll waste your time...

More importantly, why do you want to scalp futures? Most futures traders that are successful over the long term are spread traders or have found some arbitrage opportunity somewhere. Most groups that primarily or entirely scalp futures are most likely not generating the majority of their...

Any group with such a low percentage rate of success is not going to be a good one. They will say that "trading is a tough game", it is extremely hard to make it, you have to be good, bla bla bla. Trading is difficult at shops like this that have no knowledge to teach. Good groups have...

For clarification, very likely there are guys at Inverted Curve's big boy firm that are making a relatively non-existent living from their trading (just as there are guys there that are making a good living) I'd be more curious to know the percentage of the guys at your firm (to your...

Good point. From what I know Jump, Allston and Getco are mostly if not entirely automated, and im sure there are other groups on that list where there are "traders" doing as you described above. Most of the other groups, to my knowledge are mostly discretionary and many of them are entirely...

Here is my assessment of the groups that seem to have come up most often on this forum. This is based on my impression of both the opportunity for success/edge/knowledge and how well-capitalized I perceive the group to be. Of course there are numerous smaller groups that are equally as good and...