Recent content by zlmtb

AMP SUCKS - I just closed my account there. They charged me for two extra months of platform subscription fee and one extra month of CME data fee. They are not to be trusted! During 2014 they repeatedly charged me for my CME data feed despite the fact that I had completed a data fee waiver...

I called Advantage today. They said they will honor existing commission structure, intraday margins, and platform fees. I use SierraChart and they won't be offering TT-Fix as a data feed for that platform as ILQ/Velocity did. Instead they'll use CTS or CQG. All accounts with a balance...

My handle on stocktwits is the same as here: "zlmtb". I trade SSO long& short posting under SPX, SPY, and ES_F. Stockvader and parrparr both seem to do well and post their trades under $ES_F.:)

I'd like to hear how this type of "wireless backhaul" connection has or hasn't worked. I live in the mountains west of Denver Colorado and currently have access to Comcast Broadband for day trading. I'm considering moving to an area that doesn't have fiber optic broadband or DSL service...

I short SSO regularly. I like shorting it better than buying SDS because the shares are currently cheaper, and it seems a little less "whippy". I trade with Fidelity ($6.99 per trade if you ask for a deal or threaten to leave) and they usually have shares available. When they don't have...

I just started reading "Trading for a Living" and in the first chapter he makes a point of emphazing the impact of commissions and slippage on profit. So the author does encourage the reader to watch bid/ask spreads and slippage on trade executions. Definitely a good point. So from that...

I'm new to this forum and trading too. I sucessfully chose and invested in mutual funds in my IRA accounts over the last 15 years and decided to give day trading a try. In my first month I got killed as I've since found out many traders do. In desperation I went by Borders and picked up Day...