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On a good day, I might make just around a couple grand, but I usually just average around 20K shares traded for the day. My question for those of you that are trading 200K+ shares a day, what are you guys trading, liquid small-caps? Am I the only one who likes to trade stocks over 100...

How serious is this CEPH news?

How much money are you talking about? The more capital you have, the longer the time frame (in the most general sense). Try daytrading stocks with 10mil and see what kind of percentage return you get in a year.

Is the news that comes across esignals ticker even tradable? Or is it all stale? I'm just talking about the news headlines that come with the premier package.

learn to edit your posts please

You might as well ask yourself why bother swing trading, when you can ride the longer-term trends, such as oil or gold the past 5 years or so? Even less decision-making, less aggravation, you can check your position once a month or so, etc. When you've answered that question for yourself...

Doesn't being left with large orders at the ask a natural consequence of strong buying immediately prior? If I have a huge and urgent buy order to place I will naturally sweep all the lots offered at the nearest few ticks, what's left will be the largest (sitting) offers a few ticks from where...

Can anyone with experience with both platforms outline the main advantages of one over the other?

What's a French defense (besides 1.e4 e6)?

When one eventually leaves a prop firm and takes his deposit back, is the payment differentiated from a regular monthly profit check so one doesn't pay tax on a deposit refund?

Does net/share traded count at all as a reflection of trading ability? For example, say you can consistently pull 1k daily trading just around 10k shares using a total of 50k BP in liquid large-cap names - is this more impressive than someone who pulls in 5k a day trading 300k shares on 1mil BP?

What about situations where price and market movement is based mainly upon a predatory basis? When market players catch wind of an LTCM on the ropes that needs to liquidate, they will push the price further against them despite "rational" value. How does EMH deal with this situation?

Where is the best place to find out which stocks are moving pre, during, and post-market?

So sad when traders realize they can't trade and spend their days trolling on forums. Have fun watching from the sidelines hoodoo.

Both NYSE and nasdaq. Is a separate set of keys for each required?

Don't be mad because I didn't take you up on your offer. Try not using all caps when you pm your next mark.

I don't mean how to set them up, just which keys are essential that might not have occurred to me.

Can anyone describe the "must have" hotkeys for intraday equities? For example, do you normally need individual keys for each ecn, or is that overkill? Help me build my list beyond the following: G - Hit bid (-.02 limit) H - Lift offer (+.02 limit) F - Join Best bid J - Join Best Offer...

Is access to NYSE open book, ARCA and Island books worth their respective monthly fees?

Offer "incorrect" odds?