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Exactly. Everyone has such a short attention span, they forget how much money you've made over the years. Volatility is just a byproduct of an aggressive, but winning trading style, which most of the chicken littles here on ET can't deal with.

Nowadays, popular and hard to borrow stocks are charged a high interest rate. Thats probably what he was referring to.

Let's not forget that neke makes regular withdrawals, so he doesn't have all his eggs in one basket. Plus he has a job. Not a cheerleader, just pointing out the fact that he makes a lot more than the trolls that criticize his trading. In the end, trading is about making as much money as you...

As expected, we have the trolls come out in droves berating neke for his down month, forgetting the fact that he is up 50K this year, trouncing the benchmark S&P 500. Let's not forget the long term winning record that neke owns, which the trolls WISH they could achieve. If you trolls haven't...

It is clear that this is an argument between two parties: One party (large traders, institutions, and spoofers) that wants no special parties (like lobbying HFTs) to be favored over others. The other party (front running HFTs) who want to handicap others (spoofers) who hurt their...

Buying or selling in front of large order flow is front running. HFTs will take out the offer, hit the dark pools, and sit there with an iceberg buy order in front of a large buy order they know is legit.

If the HFTs weren't hunting for large orders, then spoofing would be totally ineffective. Obviously the fact that HFTs react to new orders showing up on the order book means that their algos factor in large changes in bid and ask size into their buy/sell decisions. The reason you see so many...

It is clear that HFTs are doing their best to make their order front running algos more profitable by trying to eliminate spoofing. They are using the CFTC, HFT loving exchanges, and the ignorant public to do this. Spoofers are now considered evil, deceptive, and bad for the markets, and even...

It was so obvious that it was gonna be a bust. Less liquidity, more exchange fees relative to size, and no interest from Institutions.

The DAX isn't like the S&P where you can make a smaller contract and have tons of liquidity. The DAX isn't even close to being the most popular Eurex contract. The Eurostoxx 50 volume trumps it by a mile, even adjusting for contract size. Eurex just wants more exchange fees, if they really...

No one is going to trade the mini Dax. Most of the futures exchange volume is institutional, they love big contracts. The only reason the ES trades more than SPX is because the CME won't allow SPX to trade electronically during RTH, a savvy move by them, but annoying for us who like to pay as...

That is the area near the low from July which was a somewhat panicky bottom and also lots of other traders looking at 2040 as resistance. I don't view it as a long term area of resistance, like I do 2060, which is the end of 2014 level, a huge psych resistance level. 2040 should be no problem...

Just curious, if on most of your stop outs, you get right back in on the same side, what is the point of having the stop? Just to avoid a potential deep dive intraday? Seems like a commission churner and just adds to slippage and transaction costs.

I am bullish ES over the next several days but bearish ES intraday. Looks like classic fail at resistance of SPX 2040. Probably closes near lows today

You may want to look at the financial situation for AMP. Not saying that its not safe, but AMP's net capital is much smaller than your average FCM. http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@financialdataforfcms/documents/file/fcmdata0815.pdf

Tradestation Futures is separate from Tradestation equities and options. You have two different accounts and have to fund them separately. If you want to trade futures and equities and options, you are better off with One broker for equities and options and another one just for futures.

Actually there are many more stock traders than futures or forex traders. But the attraction to futures and forex trading is just one thing: leverage. You can make or lose a fortune quickly if using full margin in futures.

So which broker gives you good options fills and which broker gives you cheap commissions but bad fills?

You definitely have some gamble in your trading. Ed Seykota says everyone gets what they want from trading. Seems like you want excitement more than maximizing account growth. And maximizing account growth happens by avoiding excess volatility in the account. A $100,000 account that gains...

Stress and depression are two very different things. I receive stress from trading but am not depressed.