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One major difference is you don't need to deal with people in trading, if you are trading alone. Management and sales is very challenging for many people, including me.

Statistics shows 95% of people who start a business will fail. Only 10% of companys that supported by venture capital will survive and less than 3% will be listed in Nasdaq or other stock markets. It seems trading isn't more risky than running business or VC. But in general, many people still...

If everyone thinks IQ isn't so important, why the wall street still recruits quantum physicists ? Are they crazy?

Is intelligence really important for trading? Any Ivy league PhD here? Are you making profits? Any school drop-out make a fortune by trading? Please share your view!

Aaron: From where do you find the date?

I mean when will the liquidity usually move? 2 or 3 weeks before expire? The NQ still has quite a lot transactions in the Z02 but TN moved to H03.

Thank Aaron. But is it too early to move to the next one? Is it because of the Christmas?

The bid/ask diff could be 2/32 or more! 300 bid size, 500 ask size,only 1 transaction! No transaction for few minutes! Is the TNotes market sick? Or many are still in holiday?

No one interested in Venture Capital ?

If you have money, what will you do?

Some markets have much more institution players than small players. Others have quite a lot novices. Do you think we need different methods to handle this difference? Anyone know where can I find data about different types of players in different markets?

Is the slippage of T-Notes changed to 0.01? Wasn't it half tick? Or due to the half day trading, so the slippage increased?

Near every text book says arbitrage is risk-free. If it was true, why didn't all the institutions trade on it and never had any loss?

Only 2 at MIT? I know one is Andrew Lo. But I could find more than hundred or even thousand of them that hate TA! :D Do you also mean the academe sided with the funds and the brokers to 'sell' FA? :D Does it mean the TA guys had not funded any research? Are they too poor? Or they are too...

I never meet a guy working in the academic institutes that accept technical analysis. Some of them put the users of TA in the same level of bin Laden. :D I wonder why they need to be so extreme. Anyone know the reasons?

I trade T-Notes (10yr) and sometime T-Bonds and NQ. I used to think NQ was a very risky game. It was true before 2002. But it is becoming much more quite(or smooth) this year. The chart of it looks like a TBonds charts :D 10K for ES is just ok. But it is very excessive for the corn! What...

For ES or TBonds or Corn?

How much would you use to trade one futures contract? Or how much extra cashes would you keep in the a/c?

Is 3 points for the ES too tight? I think it is OK. Even for the NQ it may not be too tight. Its well-know volatility already gone.

I don't understand why there are so many people swear the PDT rule but still stick to the stocks. Why don't they move to the futures?