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You are trading 5 ER2, with an overnight margin of 26,250 with only 8 grand? With the volatility we have been having 10 fold returns in a year are definitely possible, but your leverage is unnecessarily high.

CFC was halted right after popping about 10% at 1:05pm. That sent C, GS etc. up enough to cause short covering. Funny, CFC not going bankrupt is enough to cause some panic buying. It used to take good news, not a lack of bad news.

CFC was halted right after popping about 10% at 1:05pm. That sent C, GS etc. up enough to cause short covering.

Interestingly enough the VIX was closer to 30 the last two times we hit these levels, but today we closed under 24. Something to think about. Anyone brave enough to go long at 4:00? Three days in a row it has been a good trade from 4 to 4:15.

Everyone expected the Fed's Kohn to say something to help the market, but it didn't happen. Then everyone expected Bush to say something after his meeting to help the market, but it didn't happen. Now you see what the market does without government intervention. They will do something at...

OK, let's ask the Journal starter, Buy1Sell2. B1S2, do you want people posting the opposite of what they think or what they are trading, and intentionally adding posts with useless information?

Wow, new kid, watch what you say to which poster. Everyone knows ST knows what he is doing and storm/blackguard is just a broken record with no useful information.

Let's ignore the fallacy in theoretical progressions, use $10k starting capital, and the ES trading 1 contract per $5k to make the example easier for others. If we assume the trader has alternative means for living expenses and waits to pay taxes then it will take 257 trading days making 1...

Hey don't pick on blackguard/storm121. Don't you know how hard it is to find a good negative indicator?

Echo and Bright do, but it depends on what you will be doing. You would have to call and ask whether they would want the business or not. You can send a pm to Maverick74, I know his prop firm does options. What is it you are thinking of doing, and how big of an account are you working with...

Ask and ye shall receive. Anyone notice the difference in TOS futures quotes today? They did a major upgrade this week that now allows the TOS quotes to go from normal fast with some filtering to lightning fast. So this whole debate of whether some fraction of second filtering is a big deal...

Oldtrader's words: "you can get a customer service rep faster than you can get a quote. Sounds like they have their priorities backwards." This is an attack on the firm and clearly an implied personal attack on any who would use them. If you did not mean it that way, it was still taken as...

Oldtrader, You really are completely worthless. I only hope you don't have any children to pass on such poor qualities. I realized what I said was ambiguous so I clarified it when I said that the TOS quotes are "some fraction of a second behind" because they are filtered. In most cases it is...

Well, old fart trader has obviously had an onset of senility, or possibly inbreeding and a poor education have made that eventuality moot. For anyone else following along, old fart thinks that TOS has slow quotes yet all the posts on this thread say the quotes are not slow. Apparently...

There was a common response to old fart traders on the floor that turned into the proverbial bitter old men; why don't you just die already. If you are clearly so unhappy with your life that most all of your posts are bitter and attacking, what is the point? Just put yourself out of your misery.

Coming from a poster that shills for IB I am not surprised the concept of good customer service is foreign to you. When portfolio margin came out I called IB 4 times and sent two emails asking about it. Every answer I received was different and essentially incorrect. You cannot compare IB to...

Damn, Atticus beat me to it. By the way, he is the one person here that I readily accept knows more than I do, so listen to him. He posts real time trades all the time; he doesn't run a multimillion dollar hedge fund with a high ROI because he doesn’t know what he is doing. Dberliner, you...

dberliner, The market is dead today so I will throw out a few more things. So you have been on the forums for 4 years, yet you haven't learned that there are few people here who know more than you, and you immediately dismiss their assistance. You are actually naïve enough to ask where the...

Kids now days. Yes the VIX is now computed differently, it is all in the CBOE's white paper. Obviously these numbers are the VXO which are the prior calculations using OEX options. Minor variations in calculations and OEX vs. SPX have nothing whatsoever to do with my point. Clearly you are...