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OK, so you're saying that shorting a stock requires the same capital as going long. I was thinking that if you're short selling a stock, you would get the proceeds from the sale of the stock. Thus, if you shorted equal dollars to what you were long, the net change to your cash capital would...

Thanks Mschey. Is that assuming 4:1 daytrading margin, or no use of margin?

Yeah, JJ, I thought the same thing.....but he/she did register a year ago, so it's not a slam dunk that it's a spam post.

I have daytraded futures for several years, so I don't know how what I'm describing below works in a stock account. If I were to open $100K in long positions in 5 stocks first thing in the morning, and simultaneously open $100K in short positions in 5 different stocks first thing in the...

Yeah, I know.....cops always come in and bust things up just when it's getting fun. :cool:

Hmmm....looks like we have a bit of a contest between Mr. Rowshan and Mr. Rennick. Setting humor aside, may the best man win! P.S. Mr. Rowshan, just one market call per day? No midday call?

Friday's volume in the S&P Small Cap 600 was 535. No, that's not in thousands. All the data's on the CME website.

jxsbree - Thanks for posting your experience with eMDT. How long have you been with them? From the website, it appears that they don't have a live trading room during the day. How well do you think you were able to learn the method without real-time support during trading hours? Do you...

On the contrary, daily volume in the ER2 in June has been significantly higher than either May or April (with the exception of June 18, when volume was less than 1/2 other days, for some odd reason). And Er2 average daily volume this week was higher than prior weeks.

I'm not clear on this. Is this a daytrading strategy? Or a swing trade (multi-day) strategy? Or is it a combination, meaning, when you can't get out for a quick profit the same day, you hold several days until there's a reversion to the mean (high-valued ETF drops and/or low-valued ETF...

Absolutely! Like we need more power and the resultant corruption in the hands of our politicians. Yeah, let's be like Venezuela and all the other third world countries with nationalized oil industries!

Priceless....you caught RFT in the act!! :eek:

Too bad Italy still doesn't use the Lira....you'd actually be able to buy something with your $$$. Have a great time, just stay away from Naples. They're still having garbage problems there.

QQQball - your photos are definitely a bonus to reading this thread. Keep them coming (no idea where you find them all!). :p

With all due respect, and I do enjoy your thread considerably, I have a hard time understanding how the "ball" "nailed" this morning with a call for "strong" market action. Looking at the YM, it closed at 9:40 (the time of the morning call) at 12047. It proceeded to quickly drop -70 pts...

Open mouth, insert foot. The "ball's calls" are at precise times each day - 9:40AM and 1:05PM. The direction is from those times specifically. It's useless if you have to make judgements like "OK, the ball says short....I'm gonna wait two hours for the ES to rocket up 10 pts, and then go...

In addition to paying for the software and/or the room, does one have to open a trading account with Trademaven, or is the room/software something completely separate?

I'm disappointed that this thread has digressed into talking about stocks. Time to move on. :p

Bill - Thanks for the phone conversation and detailed explanation of what's going on in these posted charts. Sandy

LOL....I prefer "regression to the lowest common denominator" myself. :D