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This is my first day of placing real e-mini trades.. heck, 2 days ago I didn't even know how much a tick move would cost. Going to post semi real time trades here throughout the day and will continue through the days if I get the motivation to do so. Vaguely my method: 10 min...

Datek charges an inactivity fee per quarter, so leaving $10 in the account doesn't really make the streaming free. IB has satisfactory streaming, but Datek is noticeably faster and allows more than 40 symbols at a time. However, Datek doesn't do futures feeds.

lol, that is the best quote ever.

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Smart routing is supposed to find the best possible price at the time of order, so that would be logically be the best method. Now, some people may claim occasional worse fills.. but I've never done any comparisons to worry about it. IB smart order fills take like 2 seconds and slippage is...

When do you determine when to take profits ?

Get plenty of sleep and frequent sex.

and if you have self esteem issues, 1-800-tonyrobbins

Cause you have to learn before you can earn. I believe in me.

Fear is waking up late and getting gapped past your stop. Otherwise, trading is very methodical for me.

Tell them it's better than being a Mime.

To get rich. My first go around was during the back end of the .com era. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, and eventually just went to a buy and hold strategy with subpar results. Got disillusioned and quit 2 years later. Came back once my friend showed me technical analysis and...

First step is to become an information sponge. Find highly rated trading books here or on Amazon and then either buy it , or go to B&N and read it until you find out that you need to own it. Learn as much as you can about trading, patterns, psychology and how the system works. The key is...

Trading in the Zone is a must have.

Down -25% in your first 2 years isn't that bad.. With a 60% success rate, you apparently have a working method. The key is risk management and hanging on to your profits until your system makes you get out. You shouldn't have any losers on your trade log that will be large enough to hurt...

Post some of your winning and losing trades .. How do you decide what price to get in or out? How do you determine risk control ? If you want to share it, what is your "edge" that you follow by ?

I have no idea to the true answer either, but my interpretation is to buy on retracements relative to the MA and sell on oversold conditions. Typical hold time 1 to 10 days.

ET phone home ?

1- If I get price improvement on a limit order I am charged multiple tickets for every differnt price. I thought 1 order, 1 ticket. Who are you using that charges multiple tickets? I've never heard of any brokerage that does that. I'm using IB and it's cheap and fast as hell , really...

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