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Dropped off 2 times today as well. I also have a JTrader account which was more solid in the past. I was using IB because of AutoTrader front end. Not worth using the UI if the system drops out 1 or 2 times a week. Back to JTrader. I agree that the IB rep is only around to wave the IB...

Very good site on stress reduction. http://www.stressbusting.co.uk/

Doesn't matter what the numbers were: it was funny money. About 2 years ago there were several 'trading contest' sites. They were only popular for a while as once you enrolled and tried to trade as you would with real money, you quickly understood that everyone else was just doubling their...

I agree completely... I remember an ad for the Marine Corps, where the DI was shouting at the Boot: "Boot, ya gotta love the Corps, 'cause if you just like it, ya won't get through the day!" It takes that kind of commitment over a long time to succeed.

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Sung to "Five Feet High And Rising" by Johnny Cash How high's the S&Ps, mama? 1025 and risin' How high's the S&Ps, papa? 1025 and risin' We can make it to the road in a homemade boat That's the only thing we got left that'll float It's already over all the wheat and the oats, 1025...

Any fast market will bring Tradestation to a slooooooow display of data. I have IB running next to tradestation and as soon as I am in a position the focus moves to IB's data. I have tried to increase the speed of my LAN and increased the CPU I am using but it doesn't help. It was not...

Fast, Thanks for your journal. I am also thinking about looking at ESTX50 but it is not offered on Tradestation. What charting & broker do you use? Any observerations as you learn more about Eurex would be appreciated. Thanks again, Mike

You can also email your objections, as I just did, to: info@tradersaccounting.com <info@tradersaccounting.com>

Everytime a tax related issue is raised, be the first to post a reply with: http://www.greencompany.com/ Will the monitors delete every tax related post then? It cannot help the new sponsor much...

Chris, your 26th ego challenge performance helped me a lot to see that I needed to give positions more space and it has been working great for me. This experience of the past 3 weeks is almost over for you as it looks like you will square your position within the week. I hope it is a...

A good article in Wired magazine today. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60854,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 "Not So Quiet on Tech Job Front " AN FRANCISCO -- Tech job postings on two popular online employment sites have increased sharply, a sign that the long moribund job market may...

Is there a better measure of 'tradeability' than average pts/day? Pts/day does not communciate fully the trading range to tight trading range movement of a choppy day. Today both the currency futures (EC for example) and bonds had very good moves that lasted longer than 15-20 minutes...

Go to the best school you can get into. You can now trade the European and Asian markets almost as easily as you can trade the US markets. One good advantage to trading is that it can fit your schedule if you are in school. Use all of your extra time to paper-trade, then swing trade, then...

I trade the EUR/USD during the Asian markets. Many evenings the Japanese market will be slow until the last hour 10-11 pm PST. As the Japanese market starts to close there is some repositioning of trades depending on what people think will happen when Europe opens. The 30 minutes right after...

In an economics course years ago the professor described an example of 'practical economics'. He was in a Central America country and tried to get a taxi. He could see several empty taxis but none showed any interest in taking a new fare until after 1 p.m. When a taxi stopped and picked him...

The implied question behind "What good are we traders for?" is "What should I be doing with my life?" A very good read that asks this question of over 400 professionals is "What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson. Bronson wanted to interview Wall Street pros and Silicon Valley...

India and London closed early today plus banks started buying dollars as several currencies broke through major support levels. Gold has been a mirror image of the dollar for some time.... What is good for the dollar is bad for gold... Just a thought... ramora

ET must be doing something right compared to 100's of 'for fee' sites and many more 'vanity trading sites'. There seems to be a critical mass of experience and inexperience. Several people here I can enjoy cheering for, and also people I can enjoy disliking. Just this week: great...

It depends on the time of day. During the morning when the Europe and US markets overlap the futures market is very liquid. In the evening the fx market will fill closer to your desired price than the futures market (in my experience). I have both a fx account and a futures account (IB)...