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    PhD without the guts

    I guess you are right. I had the same feeling for a while. I am working towards my Ph.D. in one of the field you mentioned, and also do trade stocks, futures,etc. I learned a lot about mkt by trading rather from classroom lessons.
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    Futures-Trader, a Simulator for papertrading your IB account

    mkt is closed today, but i tried using ib's demo. it feeds your software but i can't execute orders. what could be rasons? also, the platform is big. is it possible to scale down, make fonts small, save screen space, etc? thanks.
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    Depth of ES Market

    if someone is on ask side with 1000 or 700 contracts somewhere in the emini depth L2 @x dollar price, put a buy stop order 1 point further up. then you will know wheter that sell is for real or not. If that volume is consumed, the seller of that volume will hurry up to cover his short fueling...
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    Hawaii TONIGHT

    enjoy your trip to hawaii.......
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    e-signal offer

    I am interested to know if it has hottrend feature as in real tick pro.....thanks
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    IB/Realtick deal?

    costly 250+ future depth i get in ib free, but u have to pay 30 bucks to realtick but i like hot trend in realtick.........
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    e mini traders: volume question

    The range is very vague. 0-50 is too large for most retail traders. Average of 0-50 is 25. One tick=$312 and if it moves by 10 point, one way or other that is $12,500-- gain or loss. Except for institutional traders, it may be too risky for average individual traders to trade 25 contracts at a...
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    IB and corporate accts

    how about sending order as market order without subscribing data? do i get real time execution with minimal slippage?
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    IB and corporate accts

    Is this Financial Advisor stuff? If so, is commission you generate from trading others account is enough to cover your 225 fee? thought about being a parttime FA, but not yet started. your experience would be useful
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    New Bull Market

    New bull or Old bear giving birth to new bear!! Lol
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    Cybertrader vs IB

    If you are happy with cyber, keep up a good job there.
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    Reverse positions with one order?

    u can do tha t using bracket trader-- a separate program that you can attach to tws
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    Poll about proportion of bears and bulls in stock mkt

    I just want to have a feel about what proportion of people trading in US stocks have bullish or bearish nature. Please vote in the posted poll. thanks.
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    Mini-Dow futures

    In the past 2-3 months, YM volume has tripled ....check cbot's home page
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    1000 QQQ SSF trading is better than NQ.

    But you can't trade QQQ 24 hrs as NQ does....
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    Trading Futures

    check the education materials about future at www.cme.com zapfutures also have excellent educational materials from diff sources. good luck
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    eSignal delayed data now available with your RealTime subscription!

    are there some ways to use esignal platform and feed data from other source like in quote tracker for free??? silly question but esignal may generate some revenue from business advertizement
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    Anyone been trading SSF since they started on Friday?

    " I have been trading MSFT on both markets the last 2 days. The spreads do suck and since volume is so low you are at the MM's mercy. but the size the MM's show is real and can be bought/sold into. (they will show 20 contracts). My fills have been immediate but at the cost of buying the...
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    Can I not get MD on the SNFE:SPI contract with IB?

    :( it may be because SNFE data is free
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    Anyone been trading SSF since they started on Friday?

    I tried. Leverage is wonderful and you can short in downtick. But I found some deficiencies; 1. Bid and Ask spread is is about 6cents. 3. Price movement is bit slower compared to stock. 4. Execution was very slow in One Chicago (I have not tried Nasdaq Liffe). Hope, they will be improved...
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