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hes post was stpid enuf so why do u hav to fhocus on speling eror, i hate when peple do that

Is it safe? That question always bugged me when I was looking for firms. Now I just don't care too much about it, other considerations are more important (platform, commisions, etc.). No firm is 'safe' and if you can't afford to lose all of your 5k deposit then you probably can't afford to...

Always Low Prices = You get what ya pay for = Someone's getting screwed

LOL....yeah "we need 'at least one' Walmart in every Amerrican town"...the one store to rule them all. :p

Nasdaq was great this month. Nasdaq 100 seems to be up almost 10% this month. Almost straight up, with nice follow through.

"freakonomics"

Another real estate thread - I love it. I love a booming market no matter where or how irrational. The bigger the better.

LOL...he has scalped and he has made millions and he has been at this for well over 10 years :p

Nice analysis. I don't think trend following will ever die either - but considering how popular it is - I'd love to see more of these whipsaws to shake out all the weak hands. Then maybe we can see some real trending markets.

well there goes your credibility :p

For new traders I think the important thing is to build a big and consistent edge. Because once you have that then you can gradually size up and make more money. But if you have a razor thin edge that you exploit by doing big volume you hurt your long-term profitability and you’re not going...

It doesn’t matter. It’s all relative. Traders like to talk about money but not profitability, they like to talk rewards but not risks. The point is the better trader is the guy with the bigger and more consistent edge and not the guy who makes more money by exploiting a razor thin edge by...

I hope the trend followers get shaken out to the point where, most investors just start exiting in mass. That strategy that may have worked really well the the past 3 decades now is just too popular.

I sure do hope sure. That'd be nice. Is there a trading bubble? Too many players, too many machines, etc.

Trading is a negative-sum game - give 100 traders 100 million. And all of them combined will lose 50 million to the broker. The remaining 50 million they lose to each other, maybe 10 of them will take a cut of 50 million and 90 will lose a cut of 50 million. The broker always will make the...

Yeah. Just want to say I'm not attacking size traders and hope this doesn't turn into a flame war. I just want to point out that its the expenses that do most businesses in, and I'm just curious why people take on so much expenses and risk.

Yeah scale up as much as possible and make as much as possible. But let's face it, size is costly - more commisions, slippage, risk, emotions.

Guys who trade small are often thought of as 'newbies' and 'pikers' even though they maybe much better traders than guys who trade much bigger size.

Relax, I'm just pointing out the obvious. If a guy can make 200k trading X amount of shares then just cause you make 500k trading 20x the volume - you make more money but the guy who trades smaller is a more profitable trader - he has a bigger 'edge'.

To all you guys who trade hundreds of thousands of shares a day, why?: If you lose money its no suprise, you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in commisions and fees a year. If you make money and good money, its still not even worth it considering the enourmous amount of risk and...