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Hitman, Although my respect for you as a folk writer of sorts grows daily, I have started wondering whether what's happening (as you experience it and describe it) between you and your lady is just a metaphor or psychological substitute of what's happening between you and the market or...

DGabriel, Jea feels that no-one can trade successfully while at the same time lead others' trading moves - there's just too much to do, especially because of his favorite timeframe (1- and 3-minute charts.) Many other trading tutors/leaders follow the same approach - and some who don't are...

I have read it and found it excellent - although at the time I decided not to use Jea's trading style. Definitely worth a few $$ to buy it and a weekend to read.

Bungrider, The condition you mentioned is a necessary (vast majority of the times) condition but not sufficient to define scalping. In my experience, scalping is trading a specific instrument for small gains, repeatedly. The small profit target (in my case, 2 pts S&P and 10 pts Naz) and...

I am glad to see a few other futures scalpers here (e.g., rtstrading, jboydston, praetorian2). Maybe we need a separate thread :) Most of the time I scalp te S&P and Nasdaq e-minis. Sometimes I also scalp the Qs, SPY, DIA and a couple of other very liquid stocks. I use IB for all my...

Rigel, Europe is the right direction, alright (for some of us, the lucky ones,) but you may be looking way too far north, imo. To find true fulfillment and unparalleled excitement, come down to the warmer (hotter) part of the old continent, and try Greece, Italy, Spain, southern France - even...

Dozu, I am happy to see Def up and posting again. CEO of IB sounds good. Although I had seen your posts before, this was the first time I noticed your quote. Interesting. And very relevant to trading. I am thinking of it as follows: "Money CAN buy happiness, BUT not in sufficient...

JPB, I'm an IB user and very interested in this topic. However, I'm not very clear what the trading strategy and related mechanics are here. Can you direct me to some source of information about what these orders are and how we use them? Alternatively, since you are the godfather of this...

How about if we kept payments voluntary??? :)

The few advertisements posted here never bothered me - they actually brigthen the board up a bit, imo. It has been said that some posts are very "informative", essentially in lieu of advertisements - but they really don't bother me either. I have actually benefited from some of them. The key...

Hitman, Great job - congrats - may you have many of these days ahead!

Hitman, Thanks for your informative response and I congratulate you for being willing to present your thinking and motivation in an open way. I think this is useful to others, like me, who are reading this thread. Honesty, as you can see, often comes with a price - but I hope that some of the...

Hitman, Thanks for your response. Your discussion of the way you trade is great. What I would still like you to explicitly consider is my basic question: why do you trade pro? For leverage? More than what's found in trading leveraged instrumaments like futures and options? For...

Hitman, FYI, since you asked, yesterday's trading involved 8 s&p trades and 5 Nasdaq trades. The percentages of course remain the same. Since I'm trying to expand my stock trading repertoire by placing a couple stock trades during the day as well, this is very "active" trading style for me...

Hitman, I liked your second enrty (today) better than the first, in that it gave me a much better view of the financial context, efforts and ultimate results of a prorietary trader. Grist for the mill, as I'm trying to decide whether I want to become one too. We've talked about which pro...

Hitman, Thanks for sharing this - it is enlightening. The curious thing of course is that from one point of view, you really work for your broker - most of your hard earned money go there. That's something to really consider. IMO, you have to find a way to reverse that balance...

Yannis is my name (John) in Greek. I was born in Greece, but have lived most of my life here. Still, I like that name :)

I have worked with Bob Meany at www.edaytradertax.com and have been very happy with his knowledge and professionalism.

Doreen, The capabilities you mentioned, monitoring positions and alerting you at the right time - and conditional/hidden orders, are also available from Realtick and related brokers and their execution addendums. TS6 is a good product but not unique in this respect. Of course you can...

Great picture Cash - absolutely love it!!! Bravo!