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What you expected from trading and what you get now?

What you expected from trading and what you get now?

Which software can let the user to combine multiple ticks to produce a constant tick chart(a candlestick) ? Is eSignals OK?

I should say the min. volume of stoxxx50 is about 200k a day in 2002. It happened in Apr/May.

In the financial market there are just too many possible reasons to explain a result. May be there are too many players in the SP, so there are too many different opinions. Before the dot com bubble burst, there were also quite a lot of people playing the NQ. But I observed the NQ usually...

After trading the index futures for 2 years, I get a feeling that the indices that contain many stocks e.g. SP500, are usually rather choppy and their trends are usually short-lived . Indices contain fewer stocks e.g. DOW(30), STOXX50, usually move quite smooth and their trends can last...

Which technical indicators are you using?

So we still need minutes bars AND tick bars. :D

DGBrothers: You reminded me an important concept. A system that captures big trends will be very different from the one that captures small trends. I think it is impossible to do both in one system. My experience is a system that captures small trends will make you exit too early in a big...

I experienced a few crashes of the Realtick today. It was likely to crash when I was changing the studies. Did anyone experience the same?

Did anyone tried lind-waldock? It was listed as the champion of the S&C magazine annual readers vote . But its commissions are quite high. What is the point of it?

DGBrothers: If you don't mind, could you post a chart of your modified indicators? Thanks!

Having beein the futures market for 2 years, I know the system of many brokers will crase from time to time. Did anyone experience the crash of computer system in the Exchange? It seems you could not use a second broker to hedge you position in such case. What could you do?

What is the major difference between FCM and Introducing Brokers?

The market today is not as volatile as people predicted. It proved we cannot and should not forecast anything in the market. We can only follow the market.

I have heard lots of things about the scalpers. As an outsider of the mainstream financial market, I never meet any one of them. I just want to know how many points can a scalper get per trade? In the ES or the SP, would they satisfy to get 0.5 points per trader? And how many trade will they...

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Who decides the prices of the futures? Will the prices of the futures be pushed up if someone buy a lot of contracts? Assume I had money to buy 10000 SP contracts and I continuously buy it. Will the futures move up even if the spot market is not rising? The question is, if I had lots of money...

Some people pay more than $30K commission per month. Is it possible for them to bypass the broker? Can a person buy a license(or whatever they call it) from CME or CBOT and then connect directly to the exchance and trade? How much will this cost?