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So today I turned on CNBC at the close to get a quick recap (I dont have bloomberg in my office yet, only the living room TV).....talk about worthless programming! Maria's Closing Bell has this annoying 'bell sound' they play during screen wipes between stories. It gets old real quick, and is a...

Had a few of those errors today, but it wasn't a problem and I was trading just fine.

Fast Money - I do 'appreciate' the first segment where they summarize the market action as a recap. The rest is....so-so, but does provide some periodic food for thought. Mad Money - entertaining and at times a good nugget or two of insight/strategy that I might not have considered before...

If you can handle short-term pain, I say go for it. The exchanges are coining money thanks to the market volatility this past year, yet in NYX's case it's been hammered down needlessly....perhaps because it was so highly-promoted by Cramer in '06. I got in before the Cramer-NYX Lovefest and...

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Granted, while I've traded equities for years but only traded futures intraday for several months, please allow me to pontificate on the subject. After months of research, paper trading, reading, and live trading using different indicators and techniques with the goal of profiting from the...

I am in Northern VA, happy to get together sometime if schedules permit....

I would love to sit thru the SuperDOM meeting but found out about it too late. Is it one of those "same time next week" sort of things? I'd love to get it on my calendar. Thanks

Hi Paul, "Prince" -- Thanks for the info. After a few weeks of exploring various platforms and brokers, I have decided to go with Open ECry as a futures broker....I'm quite impressed with their trading/charting platform running on my new Intel iMac under VMWare this past week in simulation...

*cough* Steve Liesman? He and Santelli should do a "Celebrity Economist Death Match" on Pay Per View.....lol

With respects, I beg to differ. IIRC Santelli had a decent work history in the pits as a bond/currency trader before his CNBC tenure. And he's not a cheerleader or someone drinking the Kool-Aid....something that's more apparent than ever in recent weeks, particularly that ET'ers have begun to...

Hi, all -- I'm experimenting with NT this week and it's not half-bad to learn with in demo mode. Unfortunately, I am not a scripter and am, for the moment, confined to using the Strategy Wizard to generate basic strategies to backtest. My situation is this: I can create a fixed profit...

I have been with OXPS for a year and while their equity/options platform is outstanding (in my view) their futures platform leaves MUCH to be desired. Short list of problems since December (when I think they incorporated the BrokerXpress customers) include: - Flex Charts that don't provide...

Sort of off-topic, but do you ever wonder if these trading system sites ever learned to design a website? I mean, how many of them just scroll and scroll and scroll past tons of CAPITALIZED or highlighted text, testimonials, and such? IMHO such poorly-presented sites detract from any serious...

Nope - max$ loss per trade is a subjective thing for me at the moment. If there's a danger of a SL getting blown thru (ie fed day or econ data release), chances are I'll be at my desk trading it live myself anyway and can work the trade based on conditions on the ground so to speak.....eg I've...

Will I use programmed entries to get into positions when I'm not there? Hardly if ever....but to exit at a profit or stop loss? Definately. In my case, since I hit the gym at 1045-1145 ET and run errands during the lunchtime doldrums I won't leave positions open without protection on both sides...

Perhaps of relevance to this thread, but here's a copy of my note sent earlier today to the Tradestation sales guy I was speaking with a few weeks ago. Based on my research thus far and much interaction with traders elsewhere, as of right now I'm about 99% set to transfer my futures trading...

....wow. Who'd have thought they'd change their mind so quickly?? After Complaints, Econ Data Portal to Stay Open The U.S. Department of Commerce appears to have turned away from its plans to yank the plug on Economicindicators.gov, a Web portal describing its mission as providing...

That's a good start --- but then you can include retail and consumer discretionary symbols as "follow-on" items that will be affected significantly by the credit fiasco. Really to identify "who" has exposure is like shooting fish in a barrel -- everyone's probably got some exposure. Those who...

AMEN! I was very impressed with TS' software based on the pictures and videos, but I refuse to open and fund an account with them just to get access to a DEMO of their trading platform. (Will they refund the interest on the $$ I send them in such cases for the month I demo their system? I...