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I've heard people talking about replaing live trading sessions for practice. I am really interested in this. What software / data is required? Is there a way to do this for free or for a small-flat rate instead of monthly subscription? I already have a real-time data feed from DTN...

I guess that all of this means that even with Straddles you need to have a bias towards one direction.

Hey, thanks for the responses, I've learned a lot from this thread. I like knowing that the $75 straddle should be priced the same with a $72 underlying price, and a $78 underlying, since they are both 3 dollars away from the strike (all else being equal). MTE - you said "Based on...

I know a *little* bit about volatility, but not enough to understand what happened to this DNA straddle. On Thursday, before we knew whether GenenTech (DNA) would get their new drug approved, the $75 March Straddle sold for $5.83 with 32.29% implied volatility. On Monday morning, once the...

I am getting data from IQFeed right now. I should check to see if they offer the asian markets. I didnt think any of these guys did. Have you noticed any differences with how the japanese market trends? How volatile they are? How stocks react to earnings, etc? Do you find yourself doing...

What do people mean on ET when they are talking about 'The Hybrid Market'? Why has the Hybrid market killed tape-reading? Thanks,

Does anyone here trade the korean or japanese market? I am interested in the asian markets so that I can trade them overnight, but specifically I have a moderate degree of skill with the Korean language, and being that my wife is Korean, I may find myself living there again in a couple of...

Excellent, I am going to be doing exactly this on Monday's open. Two questions: 1) Why SPY options. Is it because of the extra liquidity? Would certain equities that are reaching highs have greater swings, allowing for profit goals to be reached? 2) My broker (questrade) charges...

I'm in canada so I dont have the PDT rule. So it sounds like options are a good way to daytrade, at least, superior to equities. But you think the e-minis are even better.. With 1-5k, do you think e-minis are a better alternative than options? One thing I want to do is look at the...

I'm interested in doing some short-term trading, holding positions for just a few minutes, perhaps an hour. I've seen videos of daytraders doing this with equities. My account is very small though, so for now I think I will be looking for daytrade candidate charts, but buying calls/puts on...

I'm still new at this but what I wanted to do was find a way to play volatility. I see daytraders range-trading throughout the day on high-volatility. The extra volatility allows the swings to be wide enough to beat the commission/spread. Since my account is still very small, I wanted to...

I'm looking at straddles as a daytrade mechanism (sometimes only a few minutes in length, upto a few hours). I wonder, what are some characterstics / signals for the underlying stocks that you would look for to find candidates. I'm thinking of the following so far: 1) Price change...

I'm canadian (Hellz, yeah) , thinking of using think or swim canada.. I hear about some PDT pattern day trader regulation in the US. Does using think or swim canada protect me from this, or will I also be restricted to 4 trades per week? Does anyone have any documented info on this for...

I heard a few people talking about JSystemTrader. I am just rolling my own custom backtester in Java..

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Does anyone know of any good trading chat rooms? Perhaps some that have people online during the weekend chatting about stuff ahead of the week (IRC)? Perhaps others where people are trading live and chatting about it while the market is open? Perhaps yet others that have voice...

Can someone point me to a good vector DBMS? I cant seem to find anything. Wrong keyword perhaps?

It seems to me that text files and loading in the data would be prohibitively expensive in the RAM department. I am using SQL relational database but I am going to need to look at these timeseries (vector) databases. I haven't heard of them before..

I see, so even full-time day traders are only making 20 or 30% returns? So I guess in order to make $50k, they are trading with $250k of capital and earning 20% returns. So I guess if they are getting 10:1 leverage, they are trading 25K principal. Is that math correct? So they are...

Why is it that in a lot of literature, and on TV, 10-15% returns are heralded as such a great accomplishment? CNBC and other networks herald fund managers returning 10-15% as best of breed. But lots of daytraders and others are returning 200, 300, sometimes 400% annualy.. Is it because...