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For the sake of this argument, let's assume the payout to you is 80%. Trader X is a part-time trader. Generates $100,000 in profits. The payout to Trader X is $80,000. Trader Z is a full-time trader. Generates $300,000 in profits. The payout to Trader Z is $240,000. Which trader is a...

How do you expect to prop trade if you sitting on a plane? Prop trading companies are not looking for part-time traders.

Check out http://www.pairtrading.com to see if they have what you're looking for.

Byteme, Thanks for sharing your experience and insights. That's what I want to do. Replay historical data or original data across the LAN that feeds into my C# trading app. This is mainly an intellectual exercise. Perhaps I will look at RabbitMQ as a method of delivering and subscribing...

I'm really asking this question as a method of delivering original data.

Yes, it is 2009 :-) http://www.rabbitmq.com looks interesting (C#.Net, WCF, Open Source).

Does anyone know how to create/develop a server-side data feed? Usually, we're concerned with receiving a data feed on the client-side. I had an intellectual curiousity to create a server-side data feed that delivers data every 5 minutes to the clients. Does anyone know how that is...

Assent trades Equities and Options. Does it also trade Futures (e.g. eminis)?

I have no idea. Here's a thread I saw... http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/trillium-trading-offer

Congrats on your invitations to the interviews. Let us know how it goes.

I'm looking for a website that can help me find futures contracts that have negative correlation with E-mini S&P 500. For example, http://www.sectorspdr.com/correlation/ is a correlation tool for Select Sector SPDRs and stocks. Another example, 10-year U.S. Treasury note futures (TY) and...

The value of SPX is changing during overnight market hours? Interesting, according to my thinkorswim chart, the value of SPX doesn't change during the overnight market hours.

Ok, arbitrage keeps ES and SPX close together. In general, the futures price tends to move first, creating price inefficiencies in the cash market which the arbitrage programs try to exploit. But, when SPY is not trading, then the SPX's value is not available, so during the weekend or...

The ES emini Future contract has a 1-to-1 pricing relationship with SPY ETF. When SPY is 94.00, the ES should be around 940.00 (a factor of 10). But when makes the ES and the SPY stay close together? Suppose the market closes on Friday and the SPY is 94.00 at the close, the ES continues...

Using the formulas above, once you've calculated your MTE, you can calculate how many contracts you can trade based on the size of your capital. Contracts to trade = ( MTE * Capital ) / Contract Margin For example: 1) MTE = 40% 2) Capital = $20,000 3) Contract Margin = $5,000 1.6 = (...

And??? If they're not using Van Tharp's Expectancy to measure their multi-strategy, multi-instruments, multi-whatever, then what ARE they using? You can't claim that they are not using Expectancy if you don't know what they are using instead of Expectancy.

But you can still jack...

By the time you get laid, you'll noticed that virtual sex is not the same as real sex :) Of course, why can't real sex be just as easy as virtual sex? Because they are not the same. Different emotions for different strokes (pun intended). Likewise, virtual trading and real trading are...

Exactly.

Honest? Stop trading... 1) Buy books on trading and read everything you can. 2) Read about the different trading styles (intraday, intermediate, long term). 3) Read about the differences between trend-following versus counter-trend. What are the pros and cons? 4) Read about how CTAs have...