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Trading is compared to brainsurgery; you don't expect to learn brainsurgery in a few weeks or few months. Even Livermore said it took him about 5 years to become a satisfactory trader. Most people will not learn it even if they spent 50 years, it's that difficult, I think. Most of...

I appreciate the helpful advice I received from you and other people, nyc-hotshot and others. Thank you.

I'll try this AOL DSL free for a month. One thing I realized while hooking up this stuff is that, I now only have DSL (the one wall phone jack now hooks up to the DSL modem.). I do still have dial-up available; but first, I will have to unhook this DSL set up and re-hook the dial-up if I...

Natalie, This website, www.personalitypage.com? recommends INTJ men to hook up with ENTP or ENFP women. But the site says that ENFP's dislike mundane tasks like cooking and cleaning. If anything, they are the things I would like a woman to do for me. Yes, love is blind in the...

Q1) If I will only follow 1 stock intraday, with a dynamic real-time price, one intraday chart, and real time Time/Sale for that stock (and maybe L2 for that one stock), would 56k modem be good enough? Q2) Dial-up or DSL, which is the best ISP for trading? What's the difference between...

There was a thread asking what Myers-Brigg type people were. Many respondents were INTP or INTJ men. (I am an INTJ.) Now, if you are an INTJ male and a trader, what type of females would make the best girlfriends/wives? One personality-type website recommends INTJ men to hook up with an...

I have personally never met or heard of another trader in Houston. Are there traders on ET from Houston? I know there's Tradesman, but anyone else?

The rebate is shown as .002 and up to .005. I called the broker, myTrack; actually I think TRACK is their own ECN. They told me that the rebate is .002 but up to .005 after volume rebate. I asked if there's any volume rebate for someone trading about 1000 shares at most, and they said...

I signed up with a DAT broker. Their smart routing system lets me enable only a certain ECN's & preferencing methods. Initially I decided to enable only ISLD, INCA and SOES; partly because ISLD and INCA give rebates to orders adding liquidity. I noticed that Track ECN also gives...

What do people think about MyTrack, a DAT? I originally looked at IB, but a MyTrack customer told me bad things about IB, and recommended MyTrack. But I wonder if the higher commission is worth it ($12.95 on MyTrack vs. lower commission for 1000 shares on IB). This is my first time...

The under 25k stock traders live under the pattern daytrading rule. Now IB has $1/contract commission on SSF; or $10 for 1000 share equivalent + the commission per side. This comes out to be similar to discount stock broker commission for about 1000 shares. So I think I will be able to...

Yes, $1/contract on IB; Well, I guess I'll be adding liquidity; SSF will be the solution to my problem-pattern daytrading rule for under 25k traders. Q: how does IB offer such low commission compared to other brokers? I might sign up with them

Damn! I talk to another person at mT; he tells me I can't set preferences on their i-Routing, that it will look at all ECN's and preferencing methods. One reason I ask some of these basic questions on ET is that when I call the broker, if I ask N different people, I get N different answers...

I might be wrong (I'm an under-25k) but SSF contracts will charge about min $5/contract. So for 1000 shares equivalent, that's $50 for the contracts alone and then the roundtrip commission. (A day trade will be about $150 RT) No, I will trade stocks for about $20 RT comm.

Thanx nyc-hotshot, I signed up with myTrack (I might sign up with another broker in near future) about a week ago, I just got my funds credited. Anyway, I believe they have "i-routing" and I can enable ECN's, SOES, etc. (in which case the i-routing would only look at the enabled ECN's and...

Datek had told me that stops on NASDAQ stocks are activated when NBBO reaches the stop activation price. One question: what if the NBBO on Time/Sales never reaches the stop activation price, but there is an actual transaction done at the activation price. For example, if I'm long at 20.10...

I signed up with a DAT broker; I'm wondering if I should use their smart routing or simply route to Isld each time. (first my trading style: intraday swing trade for about 20-30 cent profit target (or 2-3%) before commission, hard stop about 5 cents (or .5%) ; trade only the most liquid...

First, I'm new to L2 and DAT ... On my broker's Time and Sales I saw symbols C and S: Broker explained that C is Cincinnati and S is Nasdaq; and that ECN transactions don't show on T & S; that Cincinnati is a new exchange somehow linked to Island. Questions for ET masters: 1) So if I...

I'm in Houston, also trading at home; why do you need an office and commute? I trade in my pajama and bathrobes.

A daytrader told me that IB holds stops internally and sometimes fails to put them out to market when the stops are activated. Thus a trader will see the trade go against her beyond the stop set. In such situations, IB makes the trader eat the extra loss, saying that it was a system problem...