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I'd appreciate hearing your take on the following scenario: Joe trader in watching the market identifies what looks like to him as an early Pattern X recognition. Pattern X is Joe's signal to buy. So Joe, seeing that Pattern X is developing jumps in and buys. Joe's position soon is showing a...

Actually for the value that TradeStation6 offers in the way of professional charting / backtesting software and datafeed the commission schedule isn't that prohibitive IMO. Just for the record if they charge $100 for the charting & quotes (and if that is what they are really worth) the...

Good detective work InTheZone and thanks for setting me straight.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but Tradestation's stock TRAD s hovering just over $1, and thus far they have not been able to reduce their cash burn rate or turn a profit as a brokerage. If I recall correctly, they are a clearing member so if they go belly up customer funds might be in...

The retirement plans are a very attractive part of starting a trading corporation. However don't S Corps have the same ability to contribute to retirement plans that C Corps have or am I mistaken? And for that matter would an LLC or even a partnership be able to contribute to a retirement plan...

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I have gotten relatively good response off the customer service chat. Sounds like you would want the funds and banking chat. Link is available off the TWS or the web site.

Try NeoTicker - that takes VBScript. I don't have any experience with it but the developer (Lawrence Chan) keeps making incremental improvements to the software (and pops in here from time to time - user name Lawrence Chan). I think you can buy the EOD for 30 or 50 dollars which would be better...

I think that would be triple the leverage (or more).

http://www.cme.com/risk_management/clearing_house/fees.cfm

I was bored so I summarized some of LW's statements. Simply astounding inter-month volatility! I wonder what his risk of ruin % would be. Trading 1 car per $1K I wonder what the ROR comes out as. Larry Williams 1987 trading record: Acct Cars Cars Closed PL DD% Closed Value...

And since you joined all the way back on 3/23/2002 I'm sure you are quite an experienced forum reader *nudge* G *nudge* e *wink* e *wink* T know what I mean? know what I mean? *nudge* O *nudge* 6 *wink* 9 *wink*

Jeanmichael's trading approach looks similar to approaches under discussion at a few spots I have found (particularly the SMAX system). Several of the list members of the groups/chatrooms listed below use Ensign and have created templates for use with that software utilizing this type of trading...

Honda, Take a look at the following publication from the IRS. Pay particular attention to the bullet points and then decide for yourself whether you meet these requirements or not. http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/display/0,,i1%3D50%26genericId%3D12278,00.html There are other informative...

Quoted from the IRS: Read all the other stuff you probably want to know about trader status straight from the IRS at: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/display/0,,i1%3D50%26genericId%3D12278,00.html

allesim: There are a few ways you can go with this. The first is to create a tool in either Excel or a full programming language like C++ Delphi or VB etc., and pump Data Vendor #2's quotes into it (by whatever mechanism Data Vendor #2 allows eg: ActiveX, DDE). Use this tool for your order...

Actually corporations salaries are 100% tax deductible so there is no double taxation on money that is distributed that way. The double taxation comes when earnings are distributed via a dividend. Most expenses that you can take as a corporate trading business could also be taken by an...

Monday Morning Written by Lindsey Buckingham. Monday morning you sure look fine Friday I got travelin on my mind First you love me, then you fade away I can't go on believin' this way I got nothing but love for you So tell me what you really wanna do First you love me then you get...

Getting a little impatient Sabena?

Contract specs for CME index products (follow the links for each product for detailed info on contract expiration and other useful info): http://www.cme.com/httpwrapper.cfm?wrap=/wrappedpages/clearing/spex/equityGroup.htm Also some basic info on the ES is located at...