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and what is astonishing about you is the fact that you knowingly broke the rules and then went on a public forum to bitch about it...Get real.

This might be the most insane thread I have ever read...Basically, you conned the system into allowing you to leverage your account enormously, then entered a position and finally are pouting about it now that you did not get the windfall profit you were expecting... Actually, this is scary...

Anyone have any ideas how much this is going to clog up the pipers...First decimilization, then SSF's having to be broadcast...And, who knows how IB will be able to handle this huge capacity issue since it seems they are already maxed out with the surge of Globex traders in the past six months

I saw that segment today and the traders name was Chris Lorenzen and he trades out of the momentum Securities office which I believe are located at 440 S LaSalle the CBOE building...Strange as this sounds, I believe a friend of mine did this guys mortgage about 3-4 years ago and know the guy was...

I think you miss the entire point...People who post in here are, for the most part, independent traders doing their own thing...And for the most part we are also bullshit detectors..There is nothing wrong with this...if any of us decided to go the vendor route and suddenly debase all of our...

I don't know about that...In alot of instances yes...But a few years ago guys popped up out of nowhere, former analysts, etc...opened up hedge funds.. How about Red Coat Capital...Heard they just jumped ship and left their offices...Guy was a former entertainment analyst and was funded up to...

Agree with your notion that big money does not want the risk...It is kind of like a threshold is hit where someone gets to their comfort level and then says, "ok no more risk"...It is all the people in between who want to double or triple their money in a heartbeat...Funny thing is most of them...

Kinda reminds me of my friend who has the southern accent...Everyone assumes he is dumber than the rest cause he inflects that twang and it sort of eases their suspicion...Then when he knows they trust him he can put the heavy sale on...We had Bubba Clinton, now we have dubya...these guys can...

It seems like we complete a circle every few days on this site...Some guys leaving the institutional side going into the daytrading arena only to lean back to the institutional side with the hedge fund stuff... I have to agree with some of the other guys who say why go for only 20% and...

oh man, let's try that again www.ivolatility.com

LOL... yes, the site is www.ivolatility.com...drop the "they"

Considering that futures commissions are as low as they are, I don't see any margin for error and the brokers certainly aren't going to cough the money up out of their pockets...The cheaper they go, the more volume they hope to capture to make up the difference...

I highly doubt they have the need to increase margins at this point, since the "tabletop" for the NQ has diminished significantly over the past 2 years...The volatility is nowhere near what it was in 2000, it only makes sense that the numbers suggest that lower margins are on the way...

I think scaling time frames is very useful in creating a type of "map of the markets". It helps determine stronger pivot points, levels and overall trend direction. From that you can scale down to a "trigger" time frame and find the optimal entries and exits... While I believe, in theory...

The best free site that I have seen is www.ivolatility.com...They have a pretty extensive database of IV, HV tools and some real useful statistics for evaluating volatility on all stocks, indicies and sectors...

I actually like most of the new E-Trade commercials with the tag line "Times have changed"...But the best is the office clerk for a dot.com who is the "gofer" and leaves work in a yellow Lamborghini, just really had a nice cynical twist to it...Too bad it comes from E-Trade, a company I...

Some of the best material was Jake Bernstein's "Seasonals" which ran on the tube back in 1997-98 before the NFA got a little ticked off and decided to fine him $500,000 and lift the commercials permanently off the air...The basic theme of the show(which was just a few punchlines away from being...

You thing it is embarassing watching a clown like Waxie, just think of what shread of dignity went up in the air for Joe Theismann, a former superstar, who has now turned into the infomercial pawn...sad indeed

I agree 100%...In fact, I would go so far as to say that if one has the proper education and has developed enough analytical skills, then the actual need to return to school to develop another skill set is pretty unnecessary...The real problem is that a high percentage of the population is...

Darkhorse: I agree with your analysis about the current baby boom generation having felt the sting of the current bear market, not unlike their parents/grandparents who went through the same cycle of despair 75 years ago... There is actually an interesting, obscure book written by an...