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Can anyone elaborate how they like to spot opportunities? Let's say the have a basket of 4-5 stocks, or perhaps even use some software like Trade-Ideas. How do you manage your focus to finding the right opportunities? I PM'd a few people about their trading setups, and they claimed they...

Beat the market, lost on commissions. Down $40. I had a real tough time spotting stocks I liked and opportunities to trade. I don't know what's been happening the past 2-3 weeks, but it needs to end.

I dunno, the Active Trader magazine article totally skimped on details.

I'm reading the article in Active Trader magazine about IB's contest, but the article doesn't actually say anything about where to find information on this programming contest. I'd like to enter it. Can anyone from IB here comment on it? This sounds like the sort of addictive challenge I...

For those following this thread, I found this: http://www.breakoutfutures.com/Newsletters/Newsletter0303.htm I have to implement it for EFS, unfortunately. Shouldn't take too long. Well, looks like my work is cut out for me.

I don't have 500k, it's just the going rate for low end homes. I have a mortgage I've been paying for a while.

Man, I live in Los Angeles. Almost anywhere in the world is cheaper. :) Save for NYC, Tokyo, and San Francisco. A 1 bedroom apartment in a reasonable area is $1200-$1500 a month. Where I live, there are 4-5 young people sharing 2 bedroom apartments just to save on rent. The alternative is...

I definitely think this should be posted as a new thread. I really want to reduce my cost of living in the US so I can spend more time perfecting trading without worrying about having to get side software contracts to cover the month's bills.

I had a magazine a while ago that talked about how to do this, but I misplaced it. It may have been Active Trader magazine, but I'm wondering if someone knows what I'm talking about -- article wise. I can't seem to find it in any of my back issues. I'd like to write a little algorithm to...

Not familar with the TWS C API, but how is the structure defined for 'c'? If those are character arrays in the structure, then assigning static strings is not going to help you. If they're pointers, it'll probably work; though, they will be pointing to a static pre-initialized data region in...

What's the network access like in the Carribean? I thought about doing that, except if I trade from developing countries, ... my fear is that I'll get crappy fills because of latency and connectivity issues.

25, Los Angeles, CA. Trade stocks and currencies. Flipped real estate for a quick buck, also. Former engineer. Started full-time trading as a prop trader in June '05. First profitable month in Oct '05. Nov '05 was profitable. We'll see what December brings. Average profit is still...

+$38. Not happy with this, but it could've been worse. Only reason the number is this low was because I had one bad read on FDP, and because e-Signal was down during key trading opportunities. I was not happy about that.

+$62. What a struggle. I'll take it, after the previous two weeks.

Is there any way to learn how many shares an order from the floor has to it? I suppose I can go back through the tape and study this, but it seems like it's random how much a floor guy will dump at any given level. Also, I'm curious if you can explain how traders use VWAP[I think that's what...

Finally had a winning day. I stopped after giving some back to the market because I wanted a psychological victory after these past two weeks of pain. Trades that happened above 1260 on the S&P index futures were my downfall. After it broke down, life was good again. ;-) +$99. Quitting...

Can you post a sample of some core position management, or maybe discuss the rules behind how you like to manage your core position? I attempted to do this in SSP today, when I shorted underneath $47. I kept offloading shares 5-10 cents away, partially. Then when it came back up, I'd short...

So it has no relevance to short term trading? Does anyone trade around a core position in intraday trading?

I called Don Bright's radio show about 2 years ago when I first started to have an interest in the stock market. He said he trained his traders to manage a "core position." I didn't think much of what he said, up until recently when I started to re-evaluate how I exit my positions. Does...

Down $260. Worst day of trading ever in my trading history for me. I got locked in a trade I couldn't get out of after the specialist faked me out. I made the mistake of using a market order to get out, and the specialist gave me a fill a fill 40 cents away from anywhere near the action...