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My question is that do you need 25k to be able to have access to day trading with margin or just to simply day trade? For example, if I deposit 10k and I only day trade one position at a time, never exceeding 10k, would that be okay? Or would I still need to deposit 25k, even though I...

Is there a significant difference between the two?

whatever time frame you use, you have to see each candlestick as one of the many battles in a war between bulls and bears. each battle starts with the open of the candle and ends with the close of the candle. if it's red, bears won that battle. if it's green, bulls won that battle. if it's a...

what min bars do you guys like to use? 1 min, 3 min, 5 min, 15 min, or 30 min?

is it better to follow a small group of around 5 stocks or have a large watch list and trade where the action is?

what period would you guys use to filter out significant volume?

when do you guys set the support and resistance lines for your opening range? after 30 min? after 1 hr? and also using what time frame candles/bars? for instance, i'm using 1 hr opening range with 5 min candlesticks

anyone know of a book that focuses on how to use the opening range for day trading?

Let's say it's premarket and you want to follow 5-10 stocks form the open to the close. How would you go about it? Personally, I look at the premarket most active, but the problem is that I get almost all financials; thus, I could easily miss a move in another sector.

i just use 5-min candles and one moving average...

i'm a day trader and i lost money today.

RBS

what you guys think about long GDX, short GLD AND long OIH, short USO right now? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=OIH&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=uso http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=2y&s=GLD&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=gdx

what is with people and the free market ideal? you know that our country did not prosper on the idea of free market, but somewhere in the middle between a free market and a controlled market. Face it, with a free market, the peaks of a business cycle would be so high, and the troughs would be...

so the market will rally if bill doesn't pass?

Assume you have 100k. How much would you allocate to one day trade position on average? 10k? 20k? 100k? 200k?

Anyone applying for citizenship in China?

No, we the tax payers have to support this bailout plan. DO YOU REALLY WANNA SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE DON'T?

The bailout plan should have passed already. I'm tired of both parties adding on new clauses to the bill and delaying the bill. Stupid McCain, WTF is he doing? You can almost say he killed wamu. Then the questioning of Bernanke and Paulson by Congressmen. WTF was that? I hate their HOLLYWOODING...

are there any other smoother indicators? i can't get constant volume bars.