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What style of trading are you doing? Rebates? 1,2 mil shares? Damn, that's a lot!

Isn't that a London Stock Exchange small cap section?

I didn't say there were no opportunities. Of course there's always opportunity. The problem is what is the *COST* of that opportunity. My point is, that cost is much too high compared to any reward in strict daytrading where all positions are closed at EOD. Yes, in hindsight, there's always...

Hydro, I don't think strictly daytrading is viable in this environment. The guys here who seem to be making some money are doing so primarily because they take their positions home for a 2-3 day swing. After accounting for commish and especially spreads, whatever you make in a 'decent' day like...

DT, Can you show a screen shot of the total shares you traded *TODAY*? This way the day traders can compare with your swing trading strategy. It appears that most of your profit is from overnight positions (nothing wrong with that). Thank you!

Just split the load between 2 machines. Usually, charting on 1 and broker platform on another.

I think after a few years in this business, one takes on the attitude of being a skeptic to many things. I know I've become that way as well.

Usually depends on your budget and whether you'll have critical stuff/applications that need 99.9% uptime. Is RAID important? What numbers of monitors are you planning. What programs do you run? Details like that. Also, don't get rid of your current machine. Add it as part of your network...

So, what do you suppose your buddy is doing that you're not? Does he share stuff with you?

Problem with these 'scanners' that pick up unusual activity is that they also pick up activity in crap stocks. IP is a dog. It doesn't move. Maybe only good for option 'writers', not buyers. Go for what moves, not some dumb scan.

That would be nice but 99% of 'loser' systems accomplish that by the old 'death by a 1000 cuts' and when commissions and spreads are properly accounted for can never be reversed and profitably traded.

Maybe if you meant you could afford to lose $1500/mo for 2-3 years, you might learn something, but *earn* money? Why should any idiot off the street be able to just start making money as if it just *grows* on Wall St. This game has always been hard and has gotten more difficult in last few mos...

Goes to show how much you understand things. Those were totally different periods with completely different reasons for the disparities. Mainly, back then, it was high volatility in tech that caused it to outperform the S&P. No comparison with today in terms of the underlying reasons...

The 'play' in the last 4 days has been long tech/short cyclicals like(metals, energy, chemicals). It's also possible somebody big was long the commodities and short NDX and was forced to close those positions. You just never know in this game.

You have to buy the book!:p

So...you're long $590K and short $555K overnight?

I could post the account where I'm up $28K today and keep quiet on the account where I was down $30K. So, where's the value in that? This board is becoming more and more hype and no substance. Pffffttttt. A LOT of schemers and scammers here SUBTLY and not so subtly pushing their wares, prop...

If you don't know what you're doing with options, why don't you get a book first? That's how most people learn a subject.

LOL!LOL!

Elliott wave? On currencies? Keep dreaming.