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An aspiring fund manager has to put together a very smooth equity curve when starting out, you are not concerned with what your exact ROI will be or even how much money you will make. Large investors care more about a smooth curve and small, infrequent drawdowns than about a high return. If...

Smoker, The traders Don and I have seen make good money were using a prop firm, or what some people call an arcade firm since it is not true prop. Firms like Bright and Echo provide traders high leverage to day trade equities, it has nothing to do with futures or an FCM. The trader puts in a...

Smoker, I know of several independent traders who made millions, and I am sure Don Bright would be happy to point out that he knows a lot. However, you are correct that if you want to make tens or hundreds of millions then a large fund is the only way to do that. You basically answered your...

A hard working, reasonably intelligent, and well educated person can eventually get a job in at least the 75k-100k range. Those usually have reasonable job security, health care, paid time off, and 401k matching. If you are an independent trader with your own money you get zero benefits of any...

You need to download and install the thinkorswim desktop software, then make sure to right click on the chart and go to style->settings and you can choose whether or not to "show extended session" and whether you want to highlight it or not for each security type.

TDA/thinkorswim is having quote problems lately. They will tell you they are not, but I have shown it to them in real time this week. You just have to keep calling and complaining, and send emails. More people need to complain so they will fix it. What you are seeing is the lag between...

Yes, I trade them.

Seems to be some confusion here. Thinkorswim does offer options on futures to some clients, mainly those who were grandfathered in when TDA took over. If you open an account now you might have to twist some arms to get them to let you trade them. They have told me they plan on offering them...

Interesting, you go on and on but completely missed the point, but this is not surprising from someone of clearly limited intellect. You are obviously not capable of being a good parent so sterilize yourself and that would be the most socially responsible thing you could ever do.

First off, if you are asking these questions in a forum populated primarily by young, inexperienced (in trading and life), misogynists then clearly you have no business getting married or having children. I don't claim to make triple digit returns but I do make a living trading, and you know...

They charge thousands of percent more than any other broker in history for futures and futures options trades. Anyone who trades futures or futures options with them has to be the stupidest traders ever.

I haven’t tried DD-WRT, but I put the Tomato firmware on my Linksys WRT54GL a few years ago and I have had exactly zero problems with it and I never need to reset it.

+1 for Eset nod32, I have used it for years and buy the two year two computer deal and it is not that much. I like it better than anything else I have tried, and I have yet to have any virus or problems with the software. I don’t use their smartsecurity since windows firewall is good enough...

Then pay a small amount of money for them, and stop playing guessing games. http://www.marketdataexpress.com/

You want to do back testing with regard to option price, and you are spending all this time trying to guess what the skew was based on the underlying? Why not just use the actual historical option prices?

I was able to negotiate a good price for these when they first came out, I bought 3 of them, but not as good as 276. I am still happy with them, you can’t get anything in that price range that is as good as the u2412m.

I have windows 7 64bit and have no trouble with the TOS dde right now. Chrome definitely stops the dde, you have to establish the dde link and have it going then open Chrome. As EEUT84 mentioned, there is most likely something running that is causing a problem, or a corrupt spreadsheet. I...

It is what I would expect. As stated, there are a few things, like chrome, updates, drivers, etc. that can cause problems with your DDE. First I would start your computer and then start shutting down all the running processes and test the DDE. See if you can find one that is obviously not...

Much better than it was. It is very rare to have an actual problem where you can’t trade, but brief quote slowness or stops (measured in seconds not minutes) does still happen once in awhile.

If the FDIC member bank allows a broker to steal money from your FDIC covered account, I think that would be considered bank fraud. But since a case like that has never happened, I am not sure we know what will occur.