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quite expensive Is there any cheaper one? I get used to IB rates :D

Which brokers support the trading of the open outcry futures?

Is the prices of open outcry very different from the electronic one? Is the former still much more active than the later?

Yes. Trading with a 500GHz computer won't give you more profits than with a 500MHz one. The computing power of the current hardware is more than enough for the traders. But the Tech companys always want to sell us somethings new so they need to make fancy stuffs.

Do you think trading is easier than doing business? Personally, I like trading. I don't need to deal with people. No need to sell anything. I can control everything.

I tried paper trade Forex last year. My own feeling is this market is particular noisy and hard to trade. The short-term charts(1-5 minutes) are always very choppy. If you trade by using long-term charts(15min or 60 min), you need to put a wide stop and this could be very risky. There are many...

Do you believe the EMH?

Is the ZF easier for beginners to trade than the ZB and ZN? It seems the ZF movement is quite smooth but the volume is lower than ZN and sometime, it has no transaction for a few minutes! BTW, who are the market makers of the bonds futures?

There were some so-called zero commissions brokers. One of them I remember is the freetrade which may belongs to Ameritrade. It seems there are no one talking about them. What are they doing? Are they ok? Anyone tried using them?

I know so many stock market crashes and I know many victims of them. How many of us know stock market boom? Only stocks of companys that was taken over might gap up 20 or 30%. The indices never able to do so.

The book : One Up on Wall Street

Many of my friends and relatives (at least 20 of them) only buy stocks, gold or bonds and never go short. When I say we can go short to take advantage of the declining market, they look at me like look at a Mafia! :D Even Peter Lynch said futures, options & short sell should be outlawed and...

It seems many traders only long and never short

Does any guy set a maximum monthly drawdown before stop trading?

Did any guy try Quadriga funds? Its performance seems quite impressive but it has only a few years records.

You are right. But when I first learned how to trader, I was laughed by so many old guys that I didn't have enough money. I nearly gave it up. Fortunately, I moved ahead.

I heard quite a lot of people said 10K isn't enough to trade. After trading for a few months, I feel it is OK. 10K for one T-Notes or NQ contract is very reasonable(some may even think it is too conservative). Even I have more than 50K in my a/c, sometimes I also trade one or two contracts only...

When do you trade?

The problem is in the sentence: if you pick opportunities so that the probable reward is at least three times greater than the potential loss This is only what you THINK. How do you know it before the trade? You can set the stop loss. But no one knows the profit. From my own experience...

Are IB, Ameritrade, Tradestation really safe? The last two are listed in the stock market. But I remember the brokerage called Drexel something collapsed in the 80s. I think it was then a big guy in the Wall Street.