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Contracts are like helmets. They protect your most important assets. You don't build a helmet from junk you find lying around, and you don't buy the cheapest one in the store. You find one that fits your specific head correctly. If you're not sure whether it is protecting every part of your...

I used to recommend IQFeed routinely as a great data provider; but I agree that the feed has had significant lag problems for the past several months (at least since April).

I'm very happy with Mirus Futures and the Ninja/Zen-Fire setup (my account is with RCG, but they also clear with Dorman). The commissions are not the cheapest (0.96 per side, plus exchange fees -- that does include the TT settlement fee of $0.10 per side that's normally paid through Ninja...

Cash, I believe that when successful traders try to qualify and minimize your successes by way of their own biases, what they're really trying to do, in a ham-handed fashion, is let you know that it wasn't easy for them to get where they are. It's human nature for them point out the...

Why not just hire clerical temp workers for $15 hour if they're not going to be making decisions? It sounds like you just need some warm bodies that can follow directions.

I know which posts are yours before I open them...

EDIT: In almost every case it's better to go with the unbundled for futures. There are only a couple of non-USD denominated futures for which you will pay higher commission when using unbundled. The contract volumes noted in the unbundled formula are across all the different products you...

The ER2 options on Globex are $3.62 / RT for bundled (on the page cited above, the ER2 futures fall under the "All products not listed below" row). The bundled RT charge for the futures contract is $4.80, and the unbundled is $4.72 on the first 150 RTs, $4.32 on the next 350 RTs, and $3.62...

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BNB, What are you looking to get from a mentor? Are you looking for a trading strategy, or are you looking for someone to help you trade your existing strategy? Have you looked at other futures markets? Personally, I don't like the index futures, and I can't trade them well. You might...

www.TradingRooms.com has great functionality including chart sharing and voice chat. And it's free.

eSignal is just a charting and data service. It's a not a trade recommendation service.

The more experienced I become as a trader, the more I get out of this book each time I re-read it.

It's equal to 5 mini contracts, but it only trades on globex from 5:00p to 8:15a (CT). Do you really want to trade the pit contract?

File a dispute with your credit card company.

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Gambling on trades makes a bad trader, regardless of timeframe. There are plenty of day traders who are not gamblers, and who don't treat their trading as such. Don't be so narrow minded. The OP's problem is that he listens to other people for trading ideas and doesn't have his own edge.

The exchange fees and NFA fees go to the exchange and the NFA (they total $2.32 per RT in the e-minis for non-members). The brokers see absolutely none of that. They are probably getting some cut of the xtrader fee, however.

You can't use xtrader with IB, but IB has its own DOM (booktrader). Check out Sweet Futures. The are the retail division of Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), one of the biggest futures clearing houses (your account would mostly likely be with RCG if you went with Global as introducing)...

It's a lot easier to undertake risky ventures when you're young and don't have major financial responsibilities, family, etc. There's always time for a regular job later.