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I'm setting up a home office for trading over night, early AM, etc....so after three years I finally won't have to drive to the office at a ridiculous hour. Anybody have a good site that sells desks that would work well with a lot of monitors (thinking 2-4 plus a laptop)...and I'm thinking...

I've thought of using the normal number pad to the left of the keyboard (what I've always used) however I was under the impression most macro programs could only program the regular keys? As well, I'm a little nervous about having my orders go through a macro program, then my front end...

Anyone know of a good, programable keyboard (or for that matter, joystick, etc) to be used for scalping/trading? I am a scalper, and I'm switching front ends...some of the key strokes will be different and I'd like to get a key board that I can program most (or hopefully all) of the keys to...

Thats what I do :) w/ a group of locals there are probably 30 of us. Like someone said, you have to either be w/ a group of have membership. I don't think there are many similar shops, just a few considering its a type of trading that requires unbelievable commitment to learn to do well.

holy crap. I'm like babe ruth calling my own shots here. I TOPPED monday (in winners....though made about $200 less w/ fees). I hope the market stays busy like this. Good trading to all.

Word. Pretty weak for a PPI day, in my market at least. So so day, but still a good week thanks to yesterday. cpi tommorrow. Historically, I trade better on PPI but I think we're about to witness a 'black swan'.

To the two or three guys that are more or less flaming me....I have to ask...what exactly are you insinuating? I had a screw up, fair enough, but i wasn't trading with your money, was I? Seriously, I'm curious. Are you all such good traders that even the idea of a mistake (by anyone) in...

I had my second best day ever today. I was fortunate in that some of my favorite type of trades presented themselves and I loaded up. My goal now is to turn this into a very good week, which it should be. I say this because there are some pretty good data points coming out...meaning there...

I like it much better when I do well on a friday...leave the week on a good note and feel good about the weekend. I usually do well on fridays....I broke a personal record this year during one of the friday jobs numbers.

PS, I apologize if I made any wrong assumptions about you...but you really are sounding like a guy that read a few books...rather than somebody who's spent years making his living in the trenches of this business. Regardless, point stands, nobody is really in a position to tell me anything...

You're wrong. You made a boat load of assumptions about my trading, based, I assume, on what you consider good trading....and its apparent that I trade much, much differently than you. Am I right in guessing your retail, and you trade patterns on charts intra day? I'm a proprietary trader for...

Thanks for taking the time to reply, but I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say you and I are on different ends of the spectrum in what we do.

I've been having an alright year, was up every day but 2 this year, till today (gross positive...net negative several other times w/ fees). Anyway was down a bit going into the close and pretty much figured the market wasn't great oh well, it happens. A market I trade goes 00...

when the floor was big in chi town, the people that made the most were the t bond locals and the eurodollar brokers. Those guys making 10m in a year wasn't news. Brokers on a busy floor can absolutley kill it. I don't know about brokers now, floors are just less busy. As for locals, there...

Here's the thing about cme currency futs...I don't really want to hedge with any specific currency...I'd rather just be more or less market neutral w/ all the major currencies. With that in mind, I'm thinking buying a few of the PHLX calls with a long expiration might be the ticket (on a...

care to tell me what doesn't make sense? This pipe dream you have of scalping futures is something I've done professionally for about two years now, and I clerked for others that do it the two years before that. A good day for me is taking home 5 or so times your account balance. I...

whats your goal here? do you want to do this professionally? If so, why not try to get backed by a shop? There are some around. I trade in a similar fashion, to be successful at what your trying to do you need: 1.) to be leasing a seat (dramatically lowering your fees...more than...

Late to the part I'm sure, but my assets are mostly in cash (US dollars) right now. What strategies are some of you guys using to hedge your own assets as the dollar devalues? I'm not really looking to 'trade' here just a way to hedge my cash. I was thinking something along the lines of...

Did anyone mention that there was a problem w/ lagging data with all globex products today? specifically this after noon starting around 3ish eastern. I trade eurodollars through a direct line to the merc and there was definite freezes / lags which does not ever happen. Called the merc and...