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Nitro I don't understand your point of view. The sheep are always sheared. Thats the way it has always been and the way it always will be. All you can do is try to be a shearer rather than a shearee.

I don't know who your using but IB has a market depth feature which allows you to see how the bids and offers are stacked up.

I'm new to the game so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I would not try to scalp futures as I dont believe you can compete here, but on a little longer time frame, say 10 minutes to an hour or so I believe anyone has a shot who has a feel for the market. I have been trading QQQ for awhile...

Run: Command: ping www.nextrend.com. At least thats the way I usually do it.

This one may already be on here but its worth repeating: "LOVE YOUR LOSSES!"

zentrader No doubt I'm over my head here but if you want to learn to swim you got to get in the water. I'm trading on a shoestring so any loss is "substantial" to me. Whether I should or should not be trading futures, well ask me again in a month or two and I will have an answer for you...

"I have noticed that on days that I'm down, I start taking unnecessary risks, like going for more size and random trades. " My probem too! I've noticed that if the day starts well I'll usually do well. If it starts bad, it gets worse. I also have a probem with boredom. If no good setups...

Thanks everyone. Very enlightening. It appears that the market did jump 2 points in 13 seconds and back again. The solution, for me, is simple. I will not enter a limit order more than .5 above the ask again. Live and learn.:)

saschabr It was just a single contract at 11:34:40.

m c a 98 What kind of connection do you have? I use IB because its the only one I know of whose software will run on a 56k without messing up. I dont have access to broadband other than satellite for data feed.

mgkrebs I'd have to look it up but it was well into the morning and the market was not moving fast. tymjr If there are many more of those occurences I will definitely look elsewhere. On qcharts, the time and sales on the mini does not allow you to backscoll so I could not...

I should have mentioned that I have a backup quote and they were both the same. I had been watching the action all along and knew where the market was at. It never went anywhere close to 1544.50. I was suprized to see an instant substantial loss on my p/l.

Thats what I thought. The reason I ask is that this morning I had a standing order buy/limit at 1544.50 from earlier. When the ask was 1542.50 I decided to enter and hit the transmit button. The order was filled at 1544.50. I guess I have an issue with IB. Thanks.

If you put in a limit order to buy above the current ask will you be filled at the ask if a contract is available? In other words does it work the same as an ecn?

Everybody would love to be able to predict volume or anything else about the market.

Protrader: You got busted pure and simple. Why dont you just admit it.

Can someone please give me a formula for calculating ES and NQ margin from the current price at IB. Daytrading margin would, I assume, be half of that. Thanks.

"Too much is being put on setups and asking traders to give away their setups. " I just finished reading a quote in "Fooled by Randomness" where he says: "If rational traders detect a pattern of stocks rising on Monday's, then, immediately such a pattern becomes detectable, it would be...

The voice of experience. Nice observation, DAT>>>

cdntrader Touche'