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Alexander Elder talks about 3 legs of stool to be a successful trader: psychology, technical analysis, and money management.

I use X-trader. Simply put it is the best. I haven't tried all of the other platforms, but x-trader works flawlessly all of the time. Yes it costs more if you don't do really high volume, but if you want a premium trouble free platform- X trader is it.

"Bush wants high-speed Internet access for all by 2007 Meaning more jobs and more stock 100% up room to go." Did he say this in his speech today? I didn't have the volume up.

If your goal is to make a lot of money and you don't have much of any capital, then it is very unlikely that you will become rich trading your own account when you earn "just enough to live." You are going to have to get a better paying job and start saving or you are going to need to trade...

Forex has some advantages over futures: it trades 24 hrs so no risk incurred while the exchange is down and their is always liquidity. However the 3+ pip spreads in retail forex gets expensive if you are trading short term. If you trade at least 1 million in size, look into true interbank...

Move east at least a couple of time zones. :D

O.K. ...the link didn't work properly; let's try one more time: http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/comp_chart/g450_vs_g550.cfm

I have the G450 and have no complaints. However make sure that the G550 will support the monitor resolution and the refresh rate you desire. Judging from the comparison chart http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/comp_chart/g450_vs_g550.cfmit is probably the same as the G450 in this regard: My...

Baron, I am still having the problem of having new messages in my inbox and having the message on the forums page say "TRADERguy, you have 0 new message(s) in your Inbox." Today when I logged in it said that I had 0 messages but when I checked I had an unread message from the 16th & the...

I looked into this a while back. If you get hired for a job the fee is nominal. If you move there with permanent resident status you can't work at a "job" for at least 2 years. If you are planning to trade your own account this should not be a problem because you will simply be "managing your...

The article is misleading because it links the company specific marketing data (sold to companies 2 weeks prior to public release) to the consumer sentiment number and then implies something unethical and illegal is going on because the sentiment number "is included in the Leading Indicator...

Leaks happen all the time but I don't think that you can attribute the price action just prior to the last FOMC release to a leak. I was watching the depth of market for the 10 yr (zn) and so many participants pulled their bids and offers that a spread of about 14 half tics formed and this set...

It's more like 3/4ths of a second on Bloomberg and maybe 2 seconds for Reuters.

It can't be the entire interbank volume because it is a decentralized system with no reporting requirements (although all banks will probably clear through the CLS Bank eventually). If you have access to one of these vendors and could check with them on what kind of volume number they are...

I, for one, am happy to live in a country that allows private enterprise and a free market. If an organization wants to conduct a survey and sell the results, there is nothing wrong with that. You are free to conduct a survey and sell the results....perhaps you could call it "The Harrytrader...

The article is wrong; plain and simple! Think about it...some of the subscribers are the news wire services; why would they keep the info to themselves for longer than it takes them to type it and send it out to their subscribers. I listen to the conference call (as a subscriber to the...

You can't. The best you can do is to check the volume of the CME currency futures. http://www.cme.com/dta/hist/bulletin.html?bullnumber=2004052&pagenum=01&seq=2-16-2004

Harrytrader, You missed my point…it is not 2 weeks, all subscribers—my firm, Bloomberg, etc.-- all get the number at the same time via a conference call and then it is released on the news wires a fraction of a second later. There is not a two week delay!

Luto, You should consider trading 10 year notes (ZN) or currencies. Equity futures tend to lend themselves to very short term trading (especially during the last year). For trading as infrequently as you do, trading in a market that is more trendy and less whippy could prove very...

Subscribers get the release at 8:50 AM Chicago time. The release is in the form of a conference call. The media outlets get the number at the same time as the subscribers and it comes out over the wire services a fraction of a second later (they have to type in the number and press enter)...