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upps, sorry! just ignore the post prop futures trading doesn't make sense to me because unlike equities, the futures have enough inherent leverage.

I trade prop remote. I do not do ANY scalping (it's a waste of my time). I rather develop swing trading strategies and trade the first and last hour of the day. Watching a bid/ask spread all day long is just too intense for me. I started 4 years ago with swing trading, holding between 5 min...

there are 2 types of traders: 1) the gut feeling trader 2) the "systems" trader Profitable gut feeling traders exit (?) but they are very rare. I'm a profitable systems trader and can tell you that it is not that difficult to be profitable........if you find your OWN (!!!!) system to...

Thanks. I wasn't aware that the TWS supports Level II. Oliver

Hi does anyone use software to display Level2 in Excel via a DDE link ? Which software supports this feature ? Thanks, OLiver

Thanks. Im particularly interested in sites that list an approx date for the pricing of the secondaries. Do you know of any others ? OLiver

Hi I'm currently using theflyonthewall.com to track secondary equity offerings. I would like to know if someone has other good sites which cover the announcements, rumors and pricings of the secondary equity offerings. Thanks in advance, OLiver

how come Datek didn't liquidate your account on the first day when your account balance fell to zero ? OLiver

no one trading bonds electronically ???

Is anyone trading bonds electronically (not bond futures!)? Any users of tradeweb, marketaxess or similar portals ? I would love to hear from you. What would be the minimum account size in order to open an account at an electronic bond trading firm ? OLiver

no, not really. although some of it is interesting reading material....

I hold a CFA and did the "Series 7" 2 years later. Series 7 is pretty easy compared to the CFA - took me about 3 days to prepare for Series 7. The only new stuff in Series 7 is the rules and regulations that broker face. OLiver

yes, www.starmine.com - check out their institutional product or you subscribe to FirstCall and do it yourself. OLiver

the offering was underwriten at 31.83, doesn't mean that the underwriters were able to place all of those 119m shares. the price action tells me that the underwriters were no able to place everything, and that the buyers of the offering are unhappy with the placing. OLiver

i believe so. but you do not get that many trading opportunities. i would like to form a group of traders, each one taking care of one particular sector and alerting his fellow traders on opportunities during his CC. the problem is that this kind of strategy is very time consuming as you...

Hi James just got your book today in the mail. I read it in about 2 hours. Not a bad book. I'm have found one simple new strategy in the book that will pay for the book many times over. On the other hand, the statistical significance of some of the strategies (15 trades in 10 years) is really...

You will not be able to buy those secondaries on their offering price, except if you have an account with one of those brokers underwriting the offering. The market price usually is higher than the offering price, so it looks like free money, but it isn't. OLiver

last time i checked the SSF there was no real trading volumes. some stocks have volume, but it is all concentrated in a single block trade per day OLiver

this happens if the seller knows that the buyers are wrong. He knows that he is going to dominate trading activity by being a big seller. Look at where FINL is trading 2 hours later ($35.83) even though the overall market is up. The previous buyers must have realized that they were wrong...

I do not mind ending up in the M$ camp. I have heard a lot of good things about VB.Net and in that respect, i probably would like to go with a SQL db from MS. Problem is that they offer 7 edition of SQL server! Which one to choose ? If i take the plunge, I want to end up with a long term...