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Time and sales won't help a human as it stands but if I could get it to consolidate every second i think I could use it. So just give me information every second. Or just eliminate all the small order trades entirely .

I guess the titlebis abbit morbid. I wanted it to be more "land mine here. Don't step" type sentiment.

I was a day trader for the most part. Never wanted to take overnight risk. I traded the trend mainly. Almost Never trying to pick tops and bottoms. Ive seen an unimaginable number of traders blow up counter trending back tuen. But then most traders blew up after a few weeks atbthe start. I...

Really why is that?

Ok I have a serious question. Let's turn this thread back in the correct direction . Is there such thing as consolidated time and sales? Slow and consolidated enough for a trader to read. Also have traders figured out methods to fight hft manipulation? I hear some exchanges protect yournorder...

I went back to school for a couple of years . Didn't pan out. I got all As but hated it. Then opened up a business making gaming computers and selling them on Amazon. Did really well initially. The Amazon changed the way their algo worked and that was over. Now I drive a tractor trailer. Gives...

Ahh yes that was when I thought hfts were the problem .I thought at the time I should learn to program and become an hft trader. I never followed up on it.

Ok I just looked this up . Bull spread is buy and sell calls. It's the same thing on short side. you just buy and sell the puts on a spread

Explain exactly. I mean , my idea of managing risk was reducing exposure, cutting losses. I missed something.

Hmm... No I never used a ton of cap. I was always a consistent trader. Yes I maxed out my margin on the short ban day I mentioned. Rarely at other times. Quite disciplined actually. That's why the last year I traded was extremely tough and hopeless. It was day in day out failure and a failure...

Wow that's a strong response! Harvard has gone down the drain for sure . But I gotta say I'm impressed with the up and coming generation. Baby boomers sucked. Gen x sucked. Millennials seem to have their head on straight!

I agree that this generation of youth coming up are amazing.

I have very little debt. I own a house and 2 modest cars. I have money saved up for my kids education. I have never declared for bankruptcy. Yet i don't blame this couple. Blame the banks and government. They are the cause of education loan crisis even more so than the housing crisis. It makes...

What can China do? They can mess with our interest rates but that would be economic suicide on their part. They can play games with rare metals but we will just use start opening the mines we closed. Their one and only hope is that Trump is voted out and that a chinese sympathiser president...

Sorry I missed this. I traded equities only. Almost entirely nyse in the beginning to mid. NASDAQ in last third. I trader nyse because you could read the tape then.

Hope is another big one

Do you believe in luck? I've never met a lucky trader.

I'm certainly not looking for sympathy.

My approach to trading today is that what I was doing then will not work today. And thanks.