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nkhoi, how did you start trading ? Are you stil trading and making a living ?

oracle, I am assuming you are a successful trader .... right ? Does it sounds familiar? New traders are doing the same thing you did when you started trading..... the only difference is that now you have people telling you NO.

There are many neagative comments in this thread about a trading career with a few positive ones. For those that wrote negative posts, are you successful traders, or you are just negative because you did not make it as a trader ? Although my question sounds sarcastic, it is a true question...

On the contrary, it is the most stressful thing I have ever dared to do ..... It has taken an incredible amount of time, simulation runs, model analysis, studying, etc .. to even decide to do it fulltime. I think is more like 95%. There has to be beginnig to any venture. For some of us is...

Gratitude, I am in about the same situations as you. I am successful at my job but worked too many hrs. I had it with corporate, for now. I feel like I am missing my kids growing up. I have been trading part-time, programmed some models, anlyzer, etc as part of my learning. Althouh I...

I excluded that detail from my original post. I am referring to short-term/day only ...

I am use to analyzing and trading SPY etfs. I am tempted to move into SP ES-Mini trading. For those experienced traders....How diffcult is to make the transiton to SP ES trading from trading/analyzing SPYs ?

I am read the IRS has two classifications, investor and trader. If you are considered an investror you could end up with some large tax liabilities. I read something like if you have a trading loss of $200k and then you have a winning of $100k the irs can tax you on a $300k gain ... I...

I used their "real-time" api last year .. it was just OK since it was not really real-time.. Itwas baout $60/mo and was advertised to me as real-time... At the end they told me the REAL real-time api cost muchmore per month ... Other than that the data I received was good ...

What indicator combines both ?

The specs sound good .. the most important thing for you is going to be network latency if you are trading remotely. ..

Sign up with a "professional" trading group, like Assent, Lightspeed, echo, etc.. they have retail and prof accounts and real-time software ...

You sound just like my wife :)

Like any other business , the only thing you have is the NDA and trust. First, do not use any programmer outside USA (Indians are popular) where you have not legal recourse to legally protect your NDA. Second, programmers are people trying to make a living just like you. Most...

You sold a put @ 32 Strike .... if the underlying is at 30 and you get excercised, then you loss is $2.00 - Premuin you received .... No matter how you look at it you lost some money .....

I like how anyone can read the left side of the charts. Lets see if your chart-to-right reading works out .. AAPL closed @ $186.26

Sorry, I did not see this post ... I am not familiar with these APIs. You do get pre-market quotes through the regular stock observables What indicators are you looking for ?

coodeep07, put the price that short/long on individual postings .... withouth a price it has not merits ...

Nordik, You D man ! Whats your secret ? (like you are going to tell us:-) .. I am sure there are other ones curious about your stragtetgy in this thread .. ... Keep up the great gains ....

How much have you been making ?