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Amen brother. I came in late last night, saw a setup, put in a bracket, and woke up with 65 pips profit The other day, same thing...I came home from work, saw a setup, put in a bracket, went out for a drink with friends, came back to 15 pips. :)

I forgot one neighborhood too...Green Lake is decent. A smallish lake, with a jogging path around it, and some good restaurants and bars in the area. The jogging path around Green Lake has to be the #1 singles scene in Seattle. It is definitely too far out for my tastes, however, as downtown is...

Well, alot of it depends on some pretty subjective tastes I guess. What type of clubs do you like to go out to? What type of music interests you? What type of people would you like to meet? Do you plan on having a job too that might involve commuting? I have been in and out of Seattle for...

Last I heard...

A resident or a citizen? Hmmm, good info and I'll look into this further, thanks!

I suppose I am too, but I am still a demo jockey at this point. I've been looking at 120 and 240 minute charts and generally speaking, when I see an opportunity I just bracket my order with a stop that makes sense and a conservative limit and let it go. Then I turn the machine off and go for a...

I saw your post in another thread about this...someone mentioned Gain Capital. They have trading accounts (in addition to the managed accounts someone mentioned) with segregated funds (kept in an account in your name at Citibank), giving them FDIC protection. See...

Tell him to give me a call, I'm up for fishing anytime! But let him know that 5 weight might not cut it. Stuff is big up here...my mom caught a 24 inch german brown last weekend in a spring creek no bigger than a drift boat... :p

You left off the frog...

Yes, but don't frogs belong in ponds? And traders in markets? And, relative to the parable, isn't the freeway merely an obstacle to cross from the frog's point of view? I don't see the connection, I suppose. :)

Two odd things happened to me last night driving the 5 hours home from a weekend in Canada. First, in a blinding rainstorm, I saw a small blip in my headlights for a moment...I thought it was a leaf blown in the wind. My girlfriend squealed that I had just hit a frog! I still don't know if it...

Nah, probably al Qaeda or North Korean traders raiding our market.

me too...

Yes, I took a bunch of hits on the USD/JPY already because of BoJ manipulation...no matter how good a short it looked technically, so I stopped trading that pair for awhile. I don't want to end up like these guys...no rats in my stomach and no burrowing termite algorithms...

No one caught this yet, but my math sucks. At least at the brokers I've checked out, the margin is $1/pip on the mini contracts ($10k) and $10/pip on the full-size ($100k). Don't think anyone is offering 500:1 margin... :) So, hah, you can go ahead and redo all my math. One futures...

Yes, from a fundamental perspective, it dwarfs the S&P and Nasdaq-100 in complexity and number of influential factors. And even from a technical perspective, it's really complex...you have this set of major currencies, and their relations to each other are all tradeable...tracking accumulation...

But of course, it depends on your point-of-reference, right? I agree with you surf...on the dailies, it's hard to find a more trend-friendly market. But the 5 min chart is a mess...which timeframes are you looking at SethArb? I am using monthlies, dailies, 240s and 120s, and they all seem...

Tax advantages are the same for currency futures and interbank market trading. See: http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTRecCurrency.shtml Leverage appears better and more controllable in the interbank market, imho. A mini FX contract requires $50 to hold, and each pip is...

What are the spreads on the majors at refco, typically?

Great work surf, you are one hell of a trader!