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    Are you a good scalper?

    125 ms :)
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    $500 Day Trading Margins For EMINIS

    I have data for October, in October average dailty volume for ES was 3600 thousands contracts, while for YM just 305 thousands... What it means for me: if we have 2 correlated coontract than it is more reasonable to trade more "heavy" one because more heavy contract leads more light one, not...
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    Who profits when retail traders lose?

    with your "edited" message I tend to agree more ... but anyway if you trade and do it successfully than it means you have advantage over coin toss and over monkey with keyboard... I do agree that discipline is extremely importan, but anyway "edge" should be putted at first place in any trading...
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    Who profits when retail traders lose?

    I partly agree with you. But I don't agree that there is no such thing like "edge". Without "edge" you just toss coin with 50% probability plus pays for every toss (comissions). not every strategy works, not every tactic works, so "edge" is not everywhere. If something works for you fine...
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    Who profits when retail traders lose?

    one of the few things in trading that I'm totally unable to understand is Why many experienced traders do not put "edge" at first place in such 1,2,3... rules? Many put "discipline" at first place and only after that they put "edge". IMHO is should be: 1. edge 2. discipline 3. money...
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    Good Stock Screens on web

    it's possible at www.stockfetcher.com
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    Programmable real-time market scanner

    any suggestions about esignal? I think that it worth to choose the "scanner solution" that is based on most used platform cos you can always find another porgrammer who might help you to create new scanner. TradeStation is a good solution cos they propose subscription without opening account...
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    Freakonomics: "Stocks Surged [Plunged] Yesterday Because....Why?"

    I'm russian living in russia and it's very funny for me to read same shit for russian stock market when some "analitic person" write on financial site that , say "futures for russian index has fallen because investors loose optimism in future growth of russain stocks" but I personally see that...
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    Daytraders ONLY - Execution, Hotkeys, Setup ?'s

    no :) 1. Edge 2. Discipline 3. tools, comissions and other technical stuff if you don't have edge and discipline, what advantage you have over "coin toss" ?
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    Daytraders ONLY - Execution, Hotkeys, Setup ?'s

    opinion from other day trader: I never used limit orders in my life, only market orders, "stop market" for entry in many cases
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    Daytraders ONLY - Execution, Hotkeys, Setup ?'s

    any "mainstream" broker like Schwab or Fidelity are absolutely not suitable for day trading. You have to have direct access broker with full Level2 (DOM) quotes, there are lots of such brokers, just read http://www.elitetrader.com/br/ I can personally recommnd Genesis (www.gndt.com) more...
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    Russia, group

    please check PM.
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    Russia, group

    a dlya kakoy platformy programmiruesh?
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    Russia, group

    Sanya G. - preved !!! vlad79 - a ya ne znaju takogo.... a ti escho prinimaesh $$ under management? ya, blyat', nikak ne mogu reshitsya "sell appaerments" :( uzhe ne znaju kaka sebya zastavit' :) ponimaju chto nado, a ne mogu :(
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    Russia, group

    I doubt there is a least one russian investors, only traders might be here...
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    Is IB good to futures scalping?

    dcraig , learner... thanks guys, I understand, will open an account at IB soon...
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    Russia, group

    "to debt or not to debt" really depends on government... those days russian government follow very conservative spending politics, they just don't spent money, they accumulate as much as possible, now russain "central bank" is the third larget USD holder in the world... i'm very sorry that we...
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    Is IB good to futures scalping?

    kiwi and learner, thanks for reply... I definetely understand that Internet connection is a "bottle neck" , I have an IT background and 100% understand what you are talking about... what I asked is an IB speed, not an Internet speed... so as far as I understand, IB speed not worse than any...
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    Is IB good to futures scalping?

    I hope that customer service is not the most important thing for me in IB, what I need from them is to execute my arder after "button push" as soon as possible... so, what is the time to get my order be filled after I push buy/sell button? thanks for any reply Alex
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    Is IB good to futures scalping?

    mktgw1.ibllc.com - does not work from russian and finland internet connectin :(
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