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I'm on a tight budget now, can any one recommend a decent broker with a low minimum? Not looking for micro size but mini size

Senario: You are a day trader. You have room on your monitor to watch 4 and only 4 markets, preferably ones that influence your target. What do you watch? my current preferences 1. Target Stock 2. VIX 3. USD 4. Target Stock sector ETF any better ideas

Used to live there but never sampled the sex trade. Lake Tahoe is nice.

The VIX fear index has traded down from its opening level in 18 out of the past 20 sessions. As far as I can tell, this short term pattern of extreme optimism has never occurred before. Any comments?

The VIX (fear indicator) has traded DOWN from its opening level for 13 straight days. I'll bet it's been a while since we've seen a streak that long on the VIX... seems excessive to me.

A perfect candle on the S&P on high volume. Those are rare. In my book, thats a good sign for more gains in the next few sessions.

have you thought about cutting down a bit of the caffeine intake?

Ok, I screwed up. But my point was, if he's wants to go long there are a lot more efficient ways than tying up $75,000. Buying a call or ES future would take much less bankroll

the market is WAY too oversold to be going short today imho. Also, instead of tying up $75,000 of capital, you could have bought puts or just shorted ES futures and freed up $65,000 or so for other investments.

rough day today America's 2 largest banks down each down 14% today. Bank index hit lowest level EVER Dow Jones hit lowest level since 2002 Inflation up huge amount in January Crude oil up 12%

Well be navigating choppy waters for the next few hours with lots of breaking news. 12pm Obama speaks 1pm Bernanke speaks 2pm Fed minutes released. I personally will wait until about 3pm to see how this all unfolds before making any trades. best of luck

CNBC commentators say that right now stock prices are corralating with the US dollar. If the dollar goes up, so do stocks If the dollar goes down, stocks fall.

Until the financial world gets some good estimate on exactly what the toxic assets are actually worth, banks will sink lower. In European trading Monday.. Royal Bank of Scotland slipped 6.9% Deutsche Bank dropped 6.5%, Commerzbank shedded 6.8% UniCredit fell more than 8%. Lloyds ended...

Short the market whenever Tim Geitner speaks. :D Buy if there are any terrorist threats.

While bank stocks are in the toilet, the Semis have shown strength. The Semi index closed Friday at its highest level relative to the S&P since Oct08. We're probably stuck in a trading range until the jobs numbers get better. That's a boring prediction i know -- but thats what the...

There's a full moon out and we just hit a Bradley turn date. Something weird is gonna happen tomorrow...

The biggest components of the S&P are the Financial, Energy and Healthcare sectors. I personally think these sectors are heading higher unless Financials collapse. fwiw...the Baltic Dry Index has gone up sharply this year, indicating increasing world demand for raw materials

From a Fundamental investing view, i think the entire market will be holding it's collective breath ahead of Fridays jobs report. with all the job cuts announced so far, it could be really, really bad. Macy's to Cut 7,000 Jobs

I hate to be boring but we're probably stuck in a trading range for the next couple of months. It will be a traders market with the indexes hovering around their current levels.

If I'm not mistaken, layoffs are considered a cost saving measure that can increase earnings per share.