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Well I trade mainly nyse stocks. .004 for nyse and if they route the shit out then its an additional .003...Occassionally I trade nasdaq and end up paying .0065 because I take liquidity often...Again, so much ridiculous fees...I need an all in rate and no sec fees...I'm going hunting.

Besides, futures trading is not cheap either. I traded the ym and cl for 1 year and came out flat. Huge commissions when scalping 5 contracts at a time... Someone said $500 a day is nothing. I would not say that when you look at all those people below us. The other day, I responded to a...

I understand, but picking up 3 points on the es most days is very hard..What futures do u trade? Only the es or also the ym and cl(oil)? If I were to go the futures route. I definitely need to trade more than one market because the es and ym are not always volatile and some stocks are always...

No, I make 500 gross on avg and I net out 250-300 on many days unless i get lucky and hit it big in just one trade in whcih case i get to keep at least 450...

Don't give up yet. It took me 8 years just to find out what type of a trader I am. You have to give it more time. 1 year is nothing. You have to discover your personality first.

I am with a direct access firm now as a prop trader. I don't understand how finding a decent software will cut the middle guy out...Please explain. thanks

No bro. I have an edge in stocks and I can't do it in futures. I am not going to give up stocks for these low lives who just lease a freakin software and sit on their asses all day ripping us off. I'm going to find a way to get rid of them and their fuckin base rate.

I make almost $500 every day scalping equities and all these fucking assholes want a piece of it. The fuckin broker wants .004 for executing orders thru their shitty, half-ass software; the fuckin nyse wants .0008 for removing liquidity and they give nothing for adding; fuckin NSCC fee of .0001...

Thats nothing buddy, compared to POT that is...:eek:

I am moving to midland park, NJ in bergen county. I am just trying to find out who has the fastest DSL service there. I dont want cable service and I am looking for at least 10 mbps download for trading.. Any Idea? I hear verizon is running a monopoly there. But their max dsl speed is 3mbps..

I want to approach it this way. Is there a good book on how to do these things? I'm pretty good in math but how the hell to apply it on stocks?

The real reason why trading is difficult: Manipulation

Yes thats true, they are giving me a rebate. But the rebate isn't free, i still have to do 400,000 shares a month to get that...

As a "professional" trader, I am paying $335 a month in fees already to echo trade. If I sign up with esignal, they will charge another $335. Echo's quotes are really good. There is no way I can use those quotes huh? :(

So it does not matter if sterling does not support ninja trader? Is it really possible to grab the signals from ninja trader and send it to sterling for real orders without any lags in time? Thanks again fellas.

Ok thanks a lot guys.:) Yes the Sterling pro (EchoPro) software supports RTD and DDE connections to Excel and Active X API language. I was also told that I should hire an outside programmer to do this. Where can I find such a programmer? I will also look in that link for my "stupid"...

Thanks a lot Shreddog. I agree, This thing is daunting... I dont even think this is worth a shot. But maybe with excel? You have any idea I can do this with excel? I don't need level 2 data at all for my automation. I am just going to use 1 minute charts. If someone can help me do this in excel...

Thanks a lot. I dowloaded the project example. There is a bunch of files in there. Which one contains the code?

Hi I am using sterling trader pro with echo trade. After almost a decade of screen time, I have come up with many scalping strategies based on chart patterns. I want to code these strategies and employ it with sterling trader pro. I know it takes active x coding to implement automated trading...

Notice that he also said he is bored with his career. It's not just his wife. To the OP: Sure you will get a lot of excitement in trading. But is it worth giving up a stable 160k job? Because I bet trading is the most stressful job in the world and less than 5% of traders are making over...