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Qcharts basic is all you really need, and the $10 a month emini feed. All other quotes are delayed, CBOT 10 min, other CME 10 min, New York stuff 30 min. But of course you can pay the fees and get realtime.

I have 2 cards both Nvidia, 1 tnt, 1 Geforce, and have no problems. It seems to me the problems were due to drivers not being updated. Sounds like you may be refering to the activation issue - by making the system think it is a new system, it requires reactivation. I run Qcharts 4.1, with no...

I am using XP, only 2 monitors, and only 3 chart windows, with about 20 charts, trading platform, watch and listen to Bloomberg over the net, have 4-6 browsers open and a couple misc programs; I have 640 mb of ram and that is more than I need. I have a peice of software from the MB maker (ASUS)...

It seems to me that trading income is not considered ordinary income, therefore not subject to self-employment taxes.

Here is a very, very simple system that buys strength and sells weakness. No other indicatiors are needed.

I think I would tend to agree that your stops are a little on the tight side..for this kind of position trading, but if it pencils out, then maybe.. If you actually plan on trading the DJ, you will have to find a broker who is willing monitor your trades and enter stops after entry and move...

I am trying to understand broker commissions, and I am not sure if my current broker is being straight with me. The commission fee, i.e. $22 rnd; not including the exchange fees and various other fees - does the broker receive this full amount or a portion of this and the FCM a portion...

I haven't used their 9.95 service - I use Qcharts with feeds for the CBOT and e-mini. $119.95. I've been using them consistently for about 6 months and for about 1 1/2 yrs total. I been satisfied with everything about them. I tried others also and for the money at this point I will stay here.

Preface this with - I trade commodities..everthing is done soley off of charts; no news etc. I use MACD and Sto..trading divergences between them and price. On 1,2,3 and 5; use the 1, 2 for entry and 3, 5 to keep me in for the longer moves. I do not use candlesticks, prefer the...

I trade through a small town broker (Kalipsell MT) Treasure State Futures, he does have a web site, (VERY basic); clear through RJO, and trade via the net on their (RJO) Market Center Direct. I am currently paying $11 rnd. As I live where I do, I prefer to keep the business local.

Such hostility! Can't disagree without it? Maybe you ought to read the tag to your posts! I would have bet and lost - I lost about twice what you did. Will agree the leverage can hurt but, it can also help a lot faster also. Trading the S&P and the NAZ today, on a day basis is really...

I would think this would vary from broker to broker. Mine will allow me to trade (day) on 1/4 margin for a 24 hour period (0000 to 2359) thus I can trade the minis for roughly $1000.

This of course is one mans opinion. BS? That again is a matter of opinion. I would be willing to bet that I lost less money in my 4 1/2 yr learning curve than in the above 3 1/2 months. A little clarification - the learning curve came during which I was holding down a regular 9-5 therefore...

If you want to trade, you will do what it takes to learn to trade within your personality. Most people will give the above type of advice. I will give the following.... My advice would be to forget stocks and look into futures. There are places you can open and account with $1,000 and start...

I know guys who go for .5 to 1 in the ES on 4-8 cantracts and 3 to 5 in the NQ on 5-10 contracts and that is to me is scalping. I guess I figured true scalping would be trying capture the spread (most floor traders). I trade for 5-10 pts on the NQ 7-10 times a day and I don't think of...

Gave it a trial today and for the next couple days, from realtimefutures.com; I cannot see the benefit (at this point). The prices being quoted where right in line with the ES (the spread was generally about 50 and the ES was mostly somewhere in between). What I mostly didn't care for is the...

Tom_P Thats the best I've heard in many a day... Thanks I neede that. :D

BIOMECH.. You mentioned that part of the reason is that you want to work on your execution... If you have not traded, those here will confirm the fact that the execution in real trading is much tougher than the execution in paper trading. So if you have the money to lose on the learning...

If ever there comes a day when we off floor traders know something before the floor...there will no longer be a pit to trade from...perhaps then we shall be closer to even.

The IB gets the $17 and Refco gets the $1.28.