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Hello, Just wanted to see how you guys feel about the current breakdown of commodities and commodity currencies making monthly/weekly A-downs already. (e.g. 6c 6a 6n futures, copper, crude oil, etc.) They all seem so bearish but it seems the boat has already sailed.

TOS $1.50 per contract, exchange fees are included in the price. I had IB as well but I can't stand their platform (tws).

Hi just wanted to ask a question about the the criteria above. Are you talking about expiration of max 10 days? Also, by fading you mean selling the top performers and buying the worst performers correct?

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The commission is too high to day trade with $500 it seems. Their margin rate is not about shorting stocks, looks like they are saying stocks that are selling (a.k.a trading) at those prices they will give you less margin. Penny stocks move wildly without whole lot of boundaries so understandable.

What exactly are you looking to trade? If you want to trade US stocks, there are many many brokers you can open an account with. If you like TDA, just ask them with one of those online chat with agents. I personally like interactive brokers as their commission is much cheaper for trading...

My understanding was that most of the scalpers who traded spreads are no longer in the game due to HFTs. I know few traders who still scalp for maybe 5 ticks and/or 2-3 ticks at a time and are rather successful.

Hi guys, Just wanted to ask, for someone who wants to scalp day trade futures, what variables do you look at to observe the patterns and learn the skill of scalping? I mean aside from the psychology, capital requirement and money management part, what should we really be looking at? Do you...

Tried it out on my ipad. Market orders get filled in horrible prices. I always have to use limit orders. That aside, like mentioned above, no margins so you have to wait for the trade to clear and settle (D+2) before making that next trade. Only advantage I see so far is that I don't have to...