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Go somewhere like www.onlinetradingacademy and buy some class materials or take a class. If you have 50K why do the prop thing. I'd suggest a retail direct access firm and learing at your own pace.

Check out www.cobratrading.com They offered me a rate of .006 per share with a $3 minumum.

Why does he have a goal of trading 1 million shares a month. I only trade a quarter of that and my direct access broker gives me trades at .006 with optional rebates. Find a new prop firm or open a retail daytrading account.

If you were a finance major or a techie, how couldn't that help. It's not going to fix an pschological issues or help you pick stocks, but it can't hurt.

I think the combination of trade ideas www.trade-ideas.com, a news service www.briefing.com and a direct access broker www.cobratrading.com have worked the best for me.

The evidence of successful traders lies in the the fact that there are so many unsuccessful ones giving away money. Someone understands........

Seems to me that if you're successful trading on your own that's the best job possible. No one to answer to except yourself. Why not just step away from the prop firm and trade with your own account if you're doing well.

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A good book that deals with this issue is Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglass.......highly recommended!

If you can trade and support yourself, who cares about a salary listed on a resume?

Does anyone know where to find a blank stock trade journal sheet to record trades?

No money management. Plain and simple. New traders often take $50 off the table and let losses run into the thousands.

Trading with $2500 is pretty much for recreation. You might hit a big score, but more typically your $14 in commissions and lowsy fills with Scottrade will eat away any profit. Normally I'd say use a direct access firm, but then software would eat you up. Maybe forex would be a better fit?

This is going to sound funny, but it all makes sense in the end. I started out as a broker for a firm. I hated cold calling and selling "stocks of the day" that I knew my clients would loose money on. Although I hated being a broker it gave me great insight and knowledge of the financial...

Check this article out on Yahoo finance http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050513/nyse_archipelago.html?.v=2

That must be an MBT problem. I have not had any problems with my direct access broker with trading through INETBK or Archip.

What are people's thoughts on this issue?

What about baskets? How do you count those? I may trade 4-20 times a day, but I might also trade a basket of 10 or so stocks. So if I trade 3-4 baskets is that only 3-4 trades or 30-40?

I think that exits are the most important element in trading. It's all about exit strategy and risk management.

The poster who stated that you can't sue anyone is completely correct. Disclaimers are always signed for this reason. INET would have been the one to bust the trade. I would ask the exact time at which Isand took the trade. I would think that you still have a very strong arguement that the...