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I don't know for sure if it's just been dumb luck, but I've experienced a 31% return on my total account since last Monday. I'm ecstatic, obviously, but is this normal for a good week? I still don't know what kind of returns people have been experiencing during "good" weeks. I'm going...

Are you saying then that if a specialist receives my market sell order, then I can assume that it will be reliably filled at or above the bid when they received it? Thanks again to all for the responses!

I understand the issue with odd lots, but are you saying that putting a limit order to sell at the bid should execute faster than if I were to put a market order to sell?

I placed a sell order of 935 shares of SGR at market with one minute left in the trading session. I routed it through SMART, which passed it through to NYSE. It sat pending on my TWS for a good 20 sec before I finally received confirmation. I'm using an NT 4.0 computer with a DSL connection...

This thread seems to have just ended, with very little resolution. So, I can only assume that it ended all well and he's fully rehabilitated, considering that he's still actively posting on ET. LUNDY!!!! YOU OUT THERE?!!!!!

Thanks jrweiner. So should I just continue routing through SMART?

So what's the latest on this guy?

I noticed that it always takes ~15-30sec to get confirmation from my IB TWS when I buy or sell individual stocks routing through SMART. That seems pretty slow, especially considering that every review I've read on IB praised its lightning fast execution (Scottrade, by contrast, often filled...

Are you talking about any gambling, or strictly just poker? (I play craps and bet on sports, e.g.)

There are as many people from Hawaii as there are from Canada! How do you like them apples!

I'll even post the above info on my ET profile so that Jack can check up on me from time to time. :)

Considering that polls by their nature are anonymous, you should feel comfortable that you're not telling people information that can be traced back to you. But, since you asked, I'm male, 34, living in northern cal. Trading for 6 months, swing trading on individual stocks. I grew up in...

Dude, trust me when I tell you that I'm not pitching anything to anyone. Paranoia overload.

Forums are always so anonymous, I just wanted to get a better understanding of the makeup of the ET community. This is not an attempt at making new friends or getting dates. I'd like to know, for example, what % of ET members are from Europe. I'd like to subsequently publish other...

Just trying to get a better understanding of the demographics of ET community. Hopefully these polls don't start getting to everyone, particularly to the more senior members. If so, just flame me and I'll stop. I'm personally in the Bay Area of California, taking up trading as a result of...

I wonder what's the correlation of the poll results with the number of years trading experience. I'm sure that those who are successfully supporting themselves are predominantly experienced traders. I wonder, though, what's the breakdown of those who aren't making a living off of trading yet...

Thanks to everyone who answered the poll so far, and for your comments. I'm pleasantly surprised that a 3rd of respondents are making a decent living off of trading (hopefully there's no self-selection bias to the results). Also good to know that I'm not the only bozo trying to get through...

I'm sure this poll's probably been done before, but I wanted to find out how successful people really are trading. Right now, because I don't want to drain my account, I'm just livin' on borrowed time (i.e., credit cards). But, if this don't work in a few months, I'll be back on the job...

Thanks for clarifying!

How can you define the risk as EITHER the stop loss order OR the total size of the position? Aren't those are two completely different numbers? Doesn't seem straightforward to me. I'll just assume that fan27's definition is how members are calculating it, which appears to be a ratio that...