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Wrong. The sign of a good trader is when he is looking to make a bigger profit. Reducing costs is what kids that trade through Datek care about. If you want to reduce costs dont trade at all. Save a bundle.

>>This has got to be the most ridiculous post I have seen to date. You are trying to convince other ES traders that it is in their interest to have higher costs, more friction in their trading. Then only COST you are paying is COMMISSION. I have no friction. I am smoothly profitable even with...

There 10000 stocks with spread as thin as 0.001 of cent. Why dont you trade them, then. Because you have to wait longer for more ticks to break even after commissions. Why you like emini? because 1 tick and you cover all your costs and make a small profit. This is why it became so popular after...

I ask you why do you try to meddle with one e-mini, when there are 10,000 different stocks to trade that have thin spread (as low as .001 of a cent)? If you like your directional trading so much, choose out of those 10,000 stocks. Leave e-mini alone.

There is an effort underway by some malicious elements ( some even post on this site) to trim the E-mini ES spread to 1 penny from a quarter now. This is going to hurt many of us who moved away from trading stocks after decimalization. Dont let them take away another good trading vehicle from...

>>Is it just me, or are you complaining about not being able to make money with the same methods the much-maligned market-makers use? Number one - I never complain. I am outraged at somebody trying to change something for the sake of change while nobody is asking for this change. Sounds just...

That is exactly what I said. I dont want to sit there for hours. Why should I? There is nothing noble in it, nothing useful. It is a waste of time. For long term holders it doesnt matter what price they get in ( a few pennies more a few pennies less) but for me it does. Lets assume for a...

TEA, your suggestions to reduce the ES spread to .1 from .25 is trying to accomplish what? They reduced the spread on stocks to 1 penny, and what did it accomplish? It accomplished that an individual trader cannot make any money now after commissions. Before I could flip a stock by 1/16 and...

I use free realtime yahoo finance quotes for S&P index. I buy when the index dips, then sell when it pops a little above my buy price, or vice versa for shorting. This is all I do. How do you trade. Please share.

the market was breaking upwards when i placed 6 sells.

These are my trades today from 9:45 to 3:00. All makret orders: (Trade_Date) - (BUY or SELL) - Qty - Product - Price 12/05/02 - BUY - 3 - DECO2 E MINI S&P - 91000 12/05/02 - SELL - 3 - DECO2 E MINI S&P - 91150 12/05/02 - SELL - 3 - DECO2 E MINI S&P - 91025 12/05/02 - BUY -...

Dude, what 63% wins are talking about? Look carefully it is 100% wins, I buy (long) then I sell (short). "Long" and "Short" is how my broker calls buy and sell. This is about $1462.5 before commissions in one day, in fact less then an hour.

I know that the my poll hours are not the same as stock trading sessions, but these are the hours I am either at home or at work, or asleep, so I was most interested in hours between 6pm-12pm, but also want to know how is trading during other hours.

How good is volume, volatility at your trading time.

I know e-minis are trading 24 hrs a day. Is anybody trading e-minis after regular trading hours US. I mean like between 8PM-12PM eastern time? If you are, could you share with me how good is volume at that time, volatility? What broker are you using? Any info will be greatly appreciated...

All market orders in ES. Not bad: TRADE LAST DATE TICK P/L 120402 3Long DEC 02 E MINI S&P 91350 120402 3Short DEC 02 E MINI S&P 91600 120402 3Long...

You cannot trade on emotion. I remember the mistakes that I made on one of my first trades. I bought thougtlessly before the stock dipped, and as it dipped I panicked and sold out. It later came back up and over what I bought it for. Remember stocks go up and down; you cannot always get in at...

With web based platform does CYBER have rapid order entry, or those links (buy,sell,short) on the streaming tools applet simpy take you to web page for the order entry? Based on the orders that you placed what is the ration of shares that go to the venues that charge less than 0.005 a...

Do you really think the guy who wrote such a book would be withholding it because he is afraid everyone is gonna get rich? Market is so huge a place that no trader can influence it significantly. And if anybody ever came up with a winning formula of daytrading they would be trillionaires by now...

Think about what each type of orders means. 1) Market: I want to buy certain number of shares at whatever price. Is this how you buy other stuff in your life? 2) Limit: I want to buy certain number of shares at a specified price. Is this how you buy other stuff in your life? Limit order...