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High volume day trading of what - stock, bonds, options, futures or ???

vjay, my explantion was to piezoe. Your explantion to piezoe is correct and you beat me by 2 minutes.

What you are missing is that the short seller OWES the dividend to the person he borrowed the stock from because the person he sold the borrowed stock to is the person that collects the dividend from the company. The payment from the short seller to the person he borrowed the stock from is...

You are obviously not familiar with the New York metropolitan area. Any location within a one hour commute of Manhattan has a very high cost of living and very high housing costs. Even a two hour commute doesn't bring a reasonable cost of living and reasonable housing costs. Some of the towns...

In 1932 the price of gold was $20.67, today it is $875. Relative to gold the USD has lost 97.6% of it purchasing power in 76 years. Even at a 3% inflation rate the USD loses half its purchasing power every 23 years. At a 5% inflation rate the USD loses half its purchasing power every 14...

vjay Thank you for being man enough to admit you were wrong - that is rare here on ET. A little research goes a long way to avoid posting incorrect information.

Today the total DOM size for YM-U was about 200 by 200. The ES-U had total DOM size about 3500 by 3500. YM looks way too thin for me.

The CME SPAN margin credit is 95% for ES/YM spread in a 5 to 6 ratio. You have to ask your broker what they want for the ES/YM spread margin, as the broker margin requirement may be higher.

How long have you been trading? Do you every read any market news? Many important news releases happen at 8:30 AM ET. Today was retail sales and tomorrow is CPI. All the markets react to the news. For upcoming economic news go to http://www.mypivots.com/DeltaT/economic-events.aspx

Who sells oil for $11 bbl/US wholesale? I'll double the price and pay those fools $22 bbl/US wholesale.

Completely and utterly WRONG. For the correct information read IRS Notice 2003-67 The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003—Information Reporting for Payments in Lieu of Dividends.

Properly defining middle class income needs to take into account local cost of living, especially housing costs. $50K is middle class family income in Iowa, but $100K is middle class family income in New York, Boston, LA and other East coast and West coast areas. Allyson Schwartz...

FDIC is for banks. No broker is FDIC insured. SIPC is for stock brokers.

Why don't you read the information at www.indexarb.com and decide the answer for yourself.

Why are you posting absolute crap? "More than 1000 indicators and experts in one archive" can only be worse than worthless junk.

1) Interactive Brokers has an API popular with developers and has customers interested in and doing auto trading. 2) AFAIK Interactive Brokers API. 3) Interactive Brokers API documentation is spotty and changes/fixes/updates are not fully specified. Need to do complete testing with paper...

There once was a World currency with a known value: gold. Gold is boring, fiat currencies are much more fun and exciting.

ICE/NYBOT has done a rotten job of promoting any Russell Index. They need to make some major promotion efforts before September.

It would be customer friendly if you would update the commissions part of your website to explain your NinjaTrader offer. I only see xTrader information there. If you have information on NinjaTrader and commissions on your site it is well hidden. The single page I get by clicking on your...

If the trading software is so good why are they selling it and not trading it? Why hasn't some hedge fund bought them out? A stated high winning percentage is meaningless and is promoted to suck in the clueless. What is the average loss, gain and drawdown per trade in real trading (not a...