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Barchart.com is free and does percentage charts - without having to overlay an index comparison.

Take trader 71 or the pit bull - those guys use to account for a lot of the volume on the ES, trader 71 now trades only about twice a day, and the pit bull no longer trades futures - he is selling options premium now. Why did these huge volume movers quit - simple - HFT's own the spread - they...

Maybe try Jack Swaggers new seed funder - you sign up (no cost), you give them access to your broker(s) to verify you ROE/draw downs/etc. and describe your strategy & what you are looking for - the site attempts to hook up with people or firms with deep capital that that can write the checks...

Trading has been a wild ride for sure! Trading does more to the emotions/ego and soul than Heroin could ever do - this is something many shrinks are very keen on. At the end of the day it's just not worth taking myself or my trading to seriously. My largest gains were a lot more luck then...

Here are the limits for the CME/CBOT/NYMEX/COMEX http://www.cmegroup.com/market-regulation/position-limits.html

Big deal if some trade has a 7 digit year, many people do this and don't call the press to brag about it. Most end up giving it all back and can never replicate it- just shooting stars. These shooting star kids that never had a job to begin, having borrowed money from their family, inherited...

I never heard of trader Dante. A quick look on the web and he has is not showing his ROR yet he is selling lots of books, classes, and mentoring. Very suspect - looks like he has a full time job promoting 'selling the dream'.

Trading 101 - The Internet is swarming with zillions of broke ass X traders that washed out trying to trade. These sharks target naive newbies. Any legit successful trader selling training will gladly volunteer to show your their audited tax returns showing their ROR and draw downs done by a...

Average risk per trade....think about it...does that actually mean anything? ___________________________________________________________________________ This is not rocket science. even the laymen should be able to understand this. AVERAGE: single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that...

Got it - thanks for explaining. I can see how they could perform so well now. You have some game theory tied in -so it makes sense to account for stomping on that equities ROR wall which is something like 20-25%. I trade mostly futures/commodities 75% and equities 25% although my best prior...

For me, 0.5% is good ... up to perhaps 1% for my highest win-rate methods. Agreed! The 0.5-1% is what many of the most long term successful traders use as the average risk per trade. Pro gamblers apply game theory as does many seasoned traders, and some of the best billion + hedge funds...

Thanks for that run down. The semis have been making huge moves. With the pairs trading I take it you are long on the strongest of the 3 stocks you follow and shorting the weakest? To get the very high returns you must be all with your capital on your trades. Anyway well done!

Yeah.. hope that it was beginner's luck. I've only just started trading heavily. That's my earnings rate for the last three months, and I'm having a tougher time now. ____________________________________________________________________________ Pardon me for asking - just curious. What type of...

I'm not losing. So far I'm earning 42% annually. ____________________________________________________________________________ I hope you realize that ranks you as one of the best traders on the planet as compared to the 5,000 or so CTA (managed futures & commodities) funds. Now add in you have...

It's all about risk management, know what to do and when... that's basically your exit strategy, especially important when in the red. _____________________________________________________________________________ Most of the top traders emerged from having blown up a few accounts before they...

I look back and think, "Why the hell did I do that? That was nothing more than a gamble. I would have been better off putting my money down on the blackjack table." _____________________________________________________________________________ There are some great traders that emerged from being...

I hate correcting members, but I assume you meant SIPC. Funny, the accounts under $1mm tend to focus on the SIPC limits when the $20mm+ accounts never ask or seemed concerned. ___________________________________________________________________________ I did mean FDIC since the equity accounts...

5? What benefit do you get from 5? ____________________________________________ Yea 5 is kind of wacky. The idea at the time was to spread out the capital so it is all covered by the FDIC, they have raised it since so I could now reduce to 2-3 accounts.

I still don't get why so many use IB. I have 5 on-line brokers and IB is my least favorite. The charting + data feed are barely even usable, you have to add a third party platform vendor which is a pain and makes it an expensive and cumbersome broker to use.

I think you misread my post - I implied that IBs data feed is not very good.