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destroy the drive... give the computer away... take the write off... be done with worrying about what if someone recovers anything... simplest is best..

+1 ... like everything in life... :)

got inspired by garachen, opened a small account to trade outrights this past week... so here is todays P&L... I dont trade every day... I was working from home today thanks to train derailments this past week, and traded at the same time.. I missed a bunch of breakout trades thanks to...

real estate purchases and swing trading mutual funds (diversified across asset classes), but still keep 20-25% in cash... for opportunities on anything that shows up...

start with low beta stocks... http://www.trade-ideas.com/ http://madscan.com/ https://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener http://finviz.com/screener.ashx

if you are going to cross, you can always do IOC...

did you take into account inflation given you are going back 10 years? was that maxloss a one time? personally, I would use the worst drawdown period... amd double it...

depends on your trading style, your strategy requirements and what you are trading... but if you are retail and trading from home latency shoudnt really be an issue..

IB internalizes a lot of their order flow when you use SMART.. (from what I understand)... as to spread, it depends on how liquid the issue is... the more liquidity the tighter the spread... now, why focus on NASDAQ100 only? why not get a scanner like trade-ideas or madscan and let it find...

you have no business trading if you can not learn to educate yourself... if you know how to participate on a forum, you should know how to handle google.com or even books.google.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470466014/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= and free answers...

you can always go to school online... lower cost and you can take a class every 6 weeks... anyhow, I wouldnt do NT... why not take $500 and open an oanda account and trade fx micro's for a little while... dont worry about only winning/losing 50c or $1.... treat it as if it was $500K... in...

I know what bright charges, I wasnt thinking of them at all... I was more thinking of the other guys with lower cost to entry... $2-5K deposit... keep in mind that Bright requires $25-50K and their focus is pairs, unless you go in with 50K and do whatever you want (as long as it is ok with them...)

hmmm... if an equity only firm is interested on churning only... how does that work? last I checked a lot of those firms charge 0.0005 per share... so, lets assume a trader does 1MM per month... that is $500 in commission to the broker... lets assume there are 20 traders... all trade 1MM... that...

ahhh... so I see your issue now... you make the assumption that most people have strict plans/paths... what I didnt tell you was all the adapting that took place to figure out how to run correctly, eat right, and recovery... all the trial an errors, the continuous improvement process... being...

hmmmm... you are certainly an interesting character... I read a few of your posts, they have all the same "theme"... little value to add though... anyhow, anyone that puts their mind to something, can in fact succeed... to be honest, nothing is hard if one focuses enough... I know this for...

I dont think you would be polluting the thread given it is also related to the goal of the OP IMO... and it makes perfect total sense, I can see how I can apply it to my own personal goals to achieve more... so thank you for sharing that tidbit of knowledge and point of view... really, thank...

you bring up a good point, and this is what I struggle with personally... when I know I have a good chance at being right, because things line up and as such the probabilities are higher, I freeze and still trade the same size and see what I felt materialize... not sure why yet, for some...

lol... I hope you were being sarcastic... I dont call myself an accomplished successful trader, far from it.. I am just risk adverse after having lost a lot and found what "works" for me... which is basically diversifying and spreading my risk around... I mean, if I was allowed to trade...

hmmmm.... in your case, if I was in your shoes... I would talk to Bright... I guess it all depends why you want to trade... if for your own account or if to tell people you are a prop guy.... I personally care about my account more than who I work for (meaning people knowing what I do - so not...

doubtful... 10% on notional on bonds and you are a rock star... more like 2-3% bud... and trading 10 bonds on $5K is ... hmmm... suicidal? (not to mention retarded)... anyhow... I gather you don't get the point, so there is no point to try to argue over it...