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I do. Good luck with your trading.

Thanks, I take it you voted no. I like doubters, fire away.

simple premise in terms of journals, ie another futures daytrading journal. method = whatever works

New year, new campaign. Simple premise: Starting capital: 8,294 Trading ER2 One year into futures trading Start date January 22, 2008

How much capital did you start trading with?

no. should be.

you get the full value of the put. if you bought a put when the stock is at 20, it goes to 0, your put is worth 20. profit would be 20 minus whatever premium you paid for it. puts are also exchange settled so you don't have to worry about counterparty risk. the other party's broker, and...

$4.72 per round trip is what I consider the going fair rate if you trade less than 150 RT's per month, and it gets cheaper after that, $4.36 for 150-500 RT's. one way to do it is to run tradestation or any other app at home, and log in using logmein.com. it's free, and it will minimize what...

TOS = pricey. is their platform any good? you may get a better platform and lower commissions w/ tradestation. strange they don't have ER2. your system sounds like it's geared toward range bound days. on strong trend days, such as strong up day, there are a lot of pullbacks followed by...

I'm curious why you started with the ES? You may get more bang for each car on the ER2 as it moves more. It looks like you're using a stop of 1.5 on the ES, which is 6 tics. On the ER2, you'll get stopped out a lot just based on random noise. ES less so, but maybe sometimes. What's your...

put it on ebay with a million dollar reserve price and see what it will fetch.

lol, did they try to sell you an extended warranty?

List reasons if applicable.

I'll add that since people here are traders, it's a statistics game. Yes, anyone CAN make it without a degree. But what percentage actually DO hit it huge on their own without a degree. It's a seductive draw because hope is an innate human nature. It's the same as trading. Upwards of 95% of...

having only 512 of ram might be part of your original problem w/ etrade. I'm running 2gb of RAM and TWS still takes up more room than I like when running w/ TS.

probably because they are the cheapest, give the most interest, and the most markets. I don't like having 2 apps at once, since TWS is also a resource hog. I think the best broker is the one you make the most money with.

why don't you just open an account with the minimum and see how you like it. then make a complete switch if you do. use the 50k, start w/ 5k at a broker. if you like it, transfer 20k because it takes a while for funds to clear even if you wire. when you're up and running on both, transfer the...

every broker has their pluses and minuses. it's a matter of what you can live with.

I think this question has been asked ad naseum. personally I think the best answer is whatever method best fits the trader.

ooph. at $8 a pop, that's about 20k in commissions. you got raped. it's ok, I use to trade at scottrade and got raped there also.