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with passive income and free time you can trade MNQ. try to make avg 2 bucks per trade per contract net (10 bucks risk 20 bucks profit), make 10 - 30 trades a day with up to 3 contracts. when capital grows to at least 6k or more switch to NQ 1 contract, add lowest margin futures spreads to...

If you are a construction company for example that participate in various selection procedures for large projects you surely need to invest some money into the process. In many occasions your construction company will not be selected and another one will be preferred So since you are never...

Maybe a more important question should be why you hanker for altered states of consciousness. Is there anything specific you do not like about "normal" reality and state of consciousness? This is a question any "drug addict" should ask himself no matter what substance he or she uses and dig deep...

Any changes with AMP and inter-delivery spread margins? Exchange-traded spreads have been around for decades now ...

That means something what you wrote, doesn't it?

Start swing/position trading (futures spreads, stocks). Add day trading when once you become consistent

61% pretty nice. What's your avg win vs avg loss ratio? Suppose around 1.5 - 2 : 1

come on, pros are still human beings made of flash and blood, no gods made of steel what distinguish pros and amateur is that pros know what needs to be done and how to do stuff properly while amateurs wamble around, chase dreams and search for holy grails ...

Thank you guys, that makes sense now for me. Btw does IB respect spread margins defined by exchanges or do they use own "higher" values?

Hello, I am checking IBs demo TWS to compare with my current brokerage (GAIN) for a possible account move. To be honest spreads with IB are kind of confusing. I am used to straight and clear interpretation and direct access to exchange-traded spreads & order books with correct market liquidity...

Sometimes you see a large volume being developed at specified price but you see only a tiny bid size there. This indicates an iceberg order(s). If such level cannot be breached it is a good indication of market might go up soon ... seen this a lot in Cotton futures spreads for example

It's like VIX (VX) calendars ... not point for them actually

Hello, I wonder whether I lose my order position in queue (for example e-mini futures NQ) at the exchange as soon as I modify the order size. I understand it uses the FIFO logic. Let's say I have LMT 1@10. There are other 100 contracts so overall size is 101 at 10. What happens when I modify to...

When I get into a larger drawdown I always review for possible over-trading #1 cause of my drawdowns. Months with the worst performance cost me the most in terms of commissions paid that month. Yeah, trade less make more

1) Read or re-read any of two Mark Douglas's book 2) everything else will be clear after that

Reverse engineer trading system? Well, definitely not mine while it's a pure discretion. I myself sometimes have difficulties to replicate that but slowly improving :-D

Nobody mentions seasonal effects in commodity markets? Great stuff ... you can position, swing and daytrade it at the same time in multiple markets thanks to generous intra-commodity margin rules.

If you can't pull the trigger the best thing to do is quit and find something you really love doing

use another pair to hedge properly during important release

wild wild west ... they do much worse things than ripping-off clients