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Nitro, Indeed, options trading is more for a 'swinger' than for a scalper :D When you mentionned selling puts, I thought you also have a swing portfolio. :p Cheers! :)

Vladiator, You will probably get some "you'll get killed" posts. :D Unfortunately, unlike on a telephone conversation where when you say something with a smile, the other will know, for posting, we don't really know how the posters said what seems to be mean... except maybe some...

Nitro, ...just an idea, you may look into synthetic long/short with options, it gives you the same risk profile as long/short stock, but it cost nothing (comparing to go long or short on real stock) Cheers! Spring is here !!! :cool:

quot from Don Bright "This question is coming up more and more since the demise of most of the "salaried" trader positions. If you have 3 years experience, did you make money, if you did, then put up some and start your own "business" - keep 100% of your profits, don't get locked in to some...

Metoxx, oh so true! Smart people tend to think, rethink, analyse, reason, counter-reason, analyse some more, and conclude.... :D I know, I am one of them! :mad: and am trying my darnest to be a bit more dumb! :D A trader thinks, but doesn't think too much . You see what...

Klassykat, I followed the Pristine candle stick for a while now, and I think it works well. 3 to 5 down days, a long down tail with hi volume, go long the next day when price crosses over the previous day hi, isn't it? (the opposite for shorts). I like it because it gives you a good...

Halcyon, Please don't take it personally when people told you that "you will g*t ki***d " :p It's just that they (we) all did get killed and/or slaughter when we first started, and trading bring the best and the worst out of us... So when you mentionned your story, we all have a...

Thanks for all for the replies :) I follow more than the E-minis, but also the currencies, grains.... and of course, some bacon now and then :D It's a pit that they trade on different exchange !!!

To save me a long distance call to Qcharts... maybe you guys could help.... Which of the Qcharts, Basic (79.95$/mth) or Intermediate (99.95$/mth) do I have to get if I want to get quotes for the E-minis and other commodities (knowing that there are exchage fees) ? Cheers ! :)

I sure don't want to be caught long in some coffee contracts in a limit down coffee !! :D

the CME quotes, you mean the 10$/mth Globex? It's about the same speed. I am still wondering which I should get, Qcharts or Futuresource Xtra... Qcharts are slightly more expensive, however you get the time of sales, and none of those problems with the firewall that I am having ...

Hi Jmk, You are right, when I turned off the firewall, Futuresource's quote applets work very well. I have contacted tech support at Futuresource.com, and they told me that there are no ways around to deal with the port 4001 closed by the firewall. I wonder what did you do to use...

Thanks TntNeo. I forgot that a limit order is "buy me at best price up to the limit of .... ", and not "buy me at exactly this price of ...." . :)

Let's not forget the Money Management ! Trading is like a business, you need a business plan. For example, you have 25K$ (your $$ or ... better...the trading firm's $$:p ), and you give yourself at least 6 months go 'learn' to trade... 25K divided by 6mth = 4000$ / mth divided by...

TntNeo, Have you ever placed a limit order way out of the range, say bid/last/ask are 1430/1435/1440, and you place a buy limit at 1455 ? I wonder if your limit order becomes a market order if the price, in that moment, does not go up to 1455, and you could get a fill at for example 1445...

Hapaboy, For future quotes, you could go to http://www.futuresource.com/ They have delayed quotes for commodities, but for the E-minis, it's real time snap shot. :D The symbole for the June contracts are ENM2 for the E-nasdaq, and ESM2 for the S&P. For those who are...

Some one wondered why Jeanmichel suddenly started a new thread telling how he traded.... maybe it was simply a reply from a thread by Matrix1955 started on the 20th of March? E mini Nasdaq :buy/sell decision making http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=4577 :)

Salut jmk, Thanks for your reply, I also have ZomeAlarm as firewall. When you said to reconfigure the ZoneAlarm, I supposed you meant to change the 'Security Setting' from 'High' to 'Low' ? Unless you have the paid version of ZoneAlarm (I have the freeware version) that you could choose...

Any of you use the Xtra.com quoting service from Futuresource.com? I registered for the 14 day try (all exchange real time!). The Java-based browser is nice, but I found the data delivery very slow, and unreliable (it's ok once it's loaded). For example, I open a java 5 min-chart for...

Travisdu, You mentionned that you traded the options on future, I can't help you there, but if ever you decided to trade the future contracts, here is what I did when I first started to get use to all those .00000's I went to Futuresource.com, get their contract spec, and look at the...