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Looks like you're getting back on track. How many long/short trades today?

1) futures only 2)There are firms that don't require licenses to use their capital. The true firms do require them, but they will pay you a small salary and not require your own money ( of course these are extremely difficult to get into). 3) I daytrade both. Some firms will allow you to trade...

Many people trade other products that TOS doesn't offer. (different futures, options futures products)

I have TOS for one of my accounts. They are an exceptional overall broker. You won't find better service, and they're dedicated to consistently upgrading their platforms and systems. Hope it goes well for you. I would just encourage you to develop a trading system while you paper trade, because...

No problem, and yes if someone was to trade goog then it might be a little more painful. But with someone so underfunded they wouldn't be able to buy many shares anyway. It's the added leverage in futures that would make it possible to burn out much faster. With just 5k you have the ability to...

Not sure where you got I was afraid of futures. I trade futures myself, but I wouldn't throw a complete newbie into that forum without learning on a slower scale first. Yes, most brokers will liquidate your assets at pre-discussed levels but it remains that you can lose majority of your capital...

nothing will prepare you for daytrading like live trading. Unfortunately it usually means you lose some portion of your account learning. You can day trade 3 times a week in any margin account without getting into trouble. I wouldn't think of trying futures at this point as the probabillity of...

Nice work today. I noticed that from just before 10am until around 11:30 the markets went into chop mode. I think I will refrain from this time period for awhile.

If you use this method in the current market what range outside the support/resistance areas are you placing orders? I've been getting stopped out more lately with stop fishing and reverse. I've had success with this setup but not as much lately. I would appreciate reasonable answers. I don't...

I'm currently using Infinity too. Haven't decided if I'll stay. I'm not sure I like their DOM that well. I don't use trailling.

are you moving up both your profit target and stops? I think in this chop I'm going to have to move up my profit to tick scalps. I also need to work on a good reversal/fade strategy.

Yes, active all day. My machine is a dual core 2.4ghz with 2gig ram (planning to upgrade ram). I'm connected to high speed cable with fairly big pipe.

I didn't have any problems

Yes, for good part of morning YM was chopping. I got stopped out a few times. My auto bracket doesn't seem to be working right and I've missed some moves due to other things.

I know what you're talking about but I don't trade charts for entry, only for setups. I put their price feed against my Transact and it was identical. As stated in other threads, the TOS chart may lag by a few seconds in a big volume move but the price feed is dead on. I know that the Prophet...

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I just didn't adjust my targets accordingly to the market action. I'm willing to take the easy stuff, what the market gives me. But my targets were set a little to long for the chop. Of course I screwed up and got in a little late on one and while the setup is normally good the follow through...

NinjaTrader platform allows customized programming. I think Mirus uses it. Not sure what you mean by the last part. Conditional orders (limit,stop, etc) sent to the broker will stay live whether you're software is running or not. If your talking about your custom program running without the...

I wondered about that when I saw your first name. It's been years since I was in there but it was free then and then you guys moved to a paid room. Sorry to hear about your split.

Hansen's chat free? I thought they charged for theirs?