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I use tradestation. it has what you want. but you don't want it.

hahaha. no.

there aren't that many all in one brokers out there.

tradestation

yes I do.

here we go... if you don't have an edge, experience, a trading plan, or some sort of methodology, you will get killed pretty fast in futures. plenty of futures traders here in YM, ES, NQ, ER2 who would love it if you put money into their market. seriously, before you get killed, slow down and...

you should stop and take a breather. the biggest mistake I see is that you seem to have started as a intraday trader and have justified holding losses overnight. with CPI coming out the next morning, that's asking for trouble. take the advice of paper trading for a while. live fire makes people...

really depends on the person/situation. what do you trade? accounting will certainly help you with the language of fundamentals based trading. ie when a company reports earnings, you'll understand what they're saying besides good/bad. if you're a technical trader, it may not matter as much. it...

other than providing startup capital, few "professional" track jobs - like accounting, or even deal oriented i-banking - will provide you the background to get good at trading. maybe a trading assistant job will give you more exposure?

a job can provide capital to trade. unless you're independently wealthy and already have a bankroll.

where are you from? can you give more details on your situation? easy answer would be to get good at trading your home market, then make the switch.

TS w/ IB as backup for me. TS doesn't clear their own futures, they are an introducing broker for RJ Obrien. With TS/RJO account, your account is not insured. IB sweeps your futures cash into the SIPC/Lloyds insured account. So something to consider if that's a concern. Also w/ TS...

Thanks ZRA. I want to have 2 accounts so when one fails, the other is available. It looks like TS and IB for me.

it looks like IB's futures intraday margins are back to normal? http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/margin.php?ib_entity=llc can someone confirm $2313 initial margin per ER2 contract? ie it takes $23,130 to trade 10 ER2 contracts? TIA

Thank you BB. Do you use 2000i? I have TS8 now, is it possible to export tick data for 2000i to use?

I am looking into TS 2000i and need some help: 1. what tick data vendors do you use with 2000i? what's the cheapest? 2. can you download all the tick data, and work on easy language offline with the tick data and easy languaeg? 3. how does licensing work with 2000i? is there a monthly...

Sure, should get idea from the charts I post. basically try to buy/sell breakouts. A lot of it is just watching DOM and seeing momentum gather.

9/11/07 Net +1879 on 22 ES. Scaled in 15 around 63.75, scaled out 10 around 61.5, covered the remaining at 63.25. Bot 7 at 63.50, scaled out around 64.75 to 65. As they say, had to work for it today...

ah, that could explain it.

My indications for S1 and S2 may be wrong. I have S1 = 47, S2 = 34. I may have to retool something... :D