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How come you don't like scalping but don't like letting your winners run either? What is it that you like?

Yeah, I read your post too late. Too bad, I was so much looking forward to following your trading results on a daily basis...

I am assuming you are talking about a straight line in a chart where the account balance is scaled logarithmically. I believe what you propose is possible, and I also believe it is quite possible that you have an edge that the vast majority of traders don't have. But I have one question...

I scalp both stocks and eminis. I think if you were successful scalping something like MSFT or DELL before decimalization, then you will still be successful now, provided you DONT'T go for pennies, but just let the stock run up 0.09 or 0.17 or whatever the ultra-short term momentum move will...

budfox, my opinion is that in the market we are currently in, writing naked puts will earn you more than "buy and hold", or maybe I should say, in the market that we were in until a couple of weeks ago. Right now, this week, option prices are relatively low. Maybe you want to wait a couple of...

Then it might be interesting for you to hear that I personally (being a "retail trader" [Interactive Brokers, options on Nasdaq100 or Dow stocks]) have seldom experienced a situation where it turned out to be favorable to just wait on the offer. Most of the time your offer is only taken AFTER...

If the spread is that wide your best bet would probably be a limit order at 2.95 Wait a few hours, maybe days, but you should get filled at your price eventually.

ctrader, I think ES will be more compatible with your tight-stop strategy than NQ. Also, support and resistance seems to be more important/reliable for the S&P than the Nasdaq.

What is so special about their fee schedule? One interesting point seems to be their definition of a ticket, but they are probably unaware of the great degree of freedom for interpretation it allows.

Eldredge: I believe if the remaining size of your bid is less than 100 shares it does not have to be represented as the national best bid. On a different note, I learned never to use market orders with a size larger than 100 shares last year by trying it with SOES. It seems that a market...

Why not e-mini?