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I will first make the disclaimer that I have only recently returned to day trading (approximately 2 months), and yes, I have noticed that the market is behaving a bit differently, particularly the past few days. For example, I am currently focusing on trading ADBE, and it is a choppy, spikey...

Examples of an unincorporated business would be a sole proprietorship or a partnership. In Canada this would be part of your personal tax return each year, as opposed to doing separate corporate tax filings if you choose to incorporate (e.g. 1234567 Canada Inc.)...

Yes, Americans have been deleveraging for the past couple of years (or more), while Canadians seemed determined to set new personal debt records each quarter. We also have a very nice housing bubble in Canada, despite having an excellent example immediately south of us re: how destructive a...

So much truth in this, particularly hiring employees that really, really need the job. For example, there are regular news articles in Canada re: approx. half of Canadians would have financial difficulties if ONE pay cheque was delayed. One!!! How much do these people depend on their...

Just curious, exactly which regulatory category do you think they would be required to register under? There is no "prop" category in Canada.

I definitely agree, and I am planning to resume daytrading in the near future, hopefully this year. Just need to line up a few items first to ensure a greater probability of success (e.g. adequate personal savings, etc.). The positive thing is that I have a very realistic idea of what I am...

I completely agree with your comment regarding institutional money, the CFA designation would absolutely be a key aspect of being qualified to manage pools of money (e.g. IFM and PM categories). I also agree about the HNWI approach, that is actually more along the lines of what I was thinking...

I am a bit hesitant to post what will follow, but I am hoping to receive some positive feedback from our community (this trading forum) about some future plans that I am considering. Please be gentle. :) To share briefly about myself, I have a few months of previous day trading experience...

Not going to state that I am a guru, but I will answer your question. :) To simplify, let's contemplate an ETF that is comprised of a basket of dividend paying stocks, with monthly distributions. This would be similar to shorting an individual company that pays dividends - the short would be...

My guess would be recent lack of profitability. He posted very good results for December ($9,700), January was a slim profit ($275), February was a larger profit ($3,480), and then March wiped out all of February, January and even a portion of December ($4,736 loss). Three months of $0 could...

I have read through a number of your posts, and would like to offer a suggestion (hope you don't mind) - have you considered reducing the quantity of stocks that you follow on a daily basis? There is some benefit to getting to know a narrower universe more intimately.

I would need to read through the document again to be 100% certain, but my take on this particular portion was related to corporate structure, not the relationship with individual traders. It sounds like the issue you mentioned was that various companies in the structure were lending each other...

Thanks for posting this, very interesting read.

I think that you might need some additional time (i.e. money) before pursuing trading again full time, mostly because you have not mentioned another income source that you can rely upon (e.g. a spouse working full-time). That said, I do think that you should definitely pursue trading at the...

For what it's worth, I've chosen to allocate a portion of my portfolio to the theory that natural gas will increase in price over the next 2-3 years. I personally chose to gain exposure via investments in natural gas companies (equities), rather than playing the commodity directly (or indirectly...

Wrong G6. :p

I would love to allocate a bit of the money in my portfolio to this asset class, but not at these levels...

Swift Trade's risk control model is pretty intelligent (I had some exposure to it in the past, essentially current risk allowance is a function of recent performance), but I would agree that it can be a bit challenging to get started there and successfully build size to levels that one can...

I think that we can all agree that it will be quite interesting to watch the market over the next few days...I personally suspect that we will see a short period of optimism, followed by renewed doubts about Europe...I really doubt that the current European woes are over, they are more likely...

Agreed - you do what you need to do in life to put food on the table. Also worth mentioning that an entry level position isn't necessarily a terrible thing with the right company, things can often turn out much better than you would have thought after a year or two.