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Blew the morning gift lay-up in energy but managed to make a little more in the afternoon (not as much as I thought I would), overall a solid day and I am not going to complain. 7500 shares on 6 of 11 shooting, +1092 before commissions, +760 after. Our order entry system went down at...

It was the game of two fills as I got a horrible fill in the morning and missed a critical fill in the afternoon that cost me what would have been an ok game. As it was, I was chopped into little pieces. 11200 shares on 6 of 13 shooting, +368 before commissions, +45 after. This is the...

I trade full time and I came from the IT field, and my answer to your question is a resounding no. If you have no commitment and are single, then this may be an option for you, but if you have a family to support your current income is greater than 90% of the trading population. At my firm the...

An acceptable game as I left early to get some stuff done, 9500 shares on 5 of 8 shooting, +806 before commissions, +411 after, the 3 bullets I had killed me. Fortunately energy was THE sector today, have to trade energy every day from now on, as they have been very rewarding lately. As...

Thomas: The only number that matters is after commission, I post before commission because I like to keep track of how much money is the firm making off me. You probably won't believe this but my worst day ever was back in April when I was blown out for 4K. So I have battled big deficit...

Horrible performance, this morning I was late to work thanks to some Anthrax threat in the subway and I missed the first 20 minutes of the game and never really got into the rthyme. Still, way too many opportunities and I just could not knock down big shots. 4 of 6 shooting on 11400 shares...

Rtharp: I just got it but it doesn't appear to be working, I wrote a filter that checks for Last > 20 and I get penny stocks, anyhow I will get back to you after the support guys fix it.

Lit: Worldco does options at its PTJP hedge fund division, which is the equivalent of our Navy Seals :-) Mrs. D and company are relocating to 100 Wall Street soon, I don't think of anything else when I trade and it is not an issue to me.

Whew, last night I had my first conversation with Tony Oz and I spend about 2 hours reading his trading journals in his first book. This morning I opened the day thinking it must had some positive impact in my trading and at 10:30AM I looked on my blotter and I didn't have a single winning...

As far as top 20 commissions generated, I am not even close, I think I am just average in term of fees. The guy with 1 monitor generates about twice as much commission as me, the problem was that his space was stuck between two other traders and there really isn't any space for another monitor...

Rtharp: The scenario in your description happens about once every month (sure hope it doesn't happen this month), I get really frustrated and try to "pick-up the tempo" and I get hacked to a brutal death, a blow-out. As long as I keep my cool however with really tight stops I...

Chopped up today as I just could not held myself in the black today and lost my third game of the month, SPX and COMP diverged today and I just wasn't short enough during the dead zone when the market finally broke down. 18500 shares on 5 of 13 shooting, +470 before commissions, -149 after, a...

Uptick: Please e-mail me on all requests, I don't check the Elite Trader private message thing everyday. Feel free to stop by, I can even call HR and see what is up with your resume.

First of all, as I said I would like to see YTD numbers rather than single day numbers before I am convinced that going for bigger moves with bigger stops is the way to go, people at my firm rarely make more than 1 point on a trade without paring in / out etc, and there were only 3 traders out...

A gutless performance as I kept on believing the market will fight back, 3 straight games the market sold off only to come back strong, and I kept on believing the market will come back strong at some point. As a matter of fact the market closed very strong yesterday that I really thought I had...

Opened up the second half with an acceptable performance given I got the direction dead wrong. Didn't have a single short during the entire sell-off since I thought market closed on its high two straight days, lost most of my morning gains through poor bottom pick attempts and churning. It...

Correct. As most start with little to no capital at this firm.

I thought Echo is not a true prop. firm in that your own money is traded not firm's.

I just checked and it is not an option.

My best day was 5K back in March. My worst day was 4K which came two days later. That condo is going to wait until late next year given the pace of things. While it is inevitable I will expand my game to include more daily stuff, as my sole income it does push me to put up shots. It is...