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I worked for a small money management firm who had 30 million under management. He had a track record of 15 plus years of beating the S&P 500, some years by over 25%. He also managed to diversify the risk out of his fund so that it had a lower risk profile then the market. He was good at...

I have had issues with Internet Explorer 6 with freezing up whether I am running it on Windows 2000 or NT. It will be fine and then out of no where I will click on a link and IE will freeze and I have to "end task". It will get stuck in these cycle where I have to keep ending task. I have not...

I have been told by a friend of a friend who works there that of course it is hard to get into but they do really like the higher education degree applicants and that you cannot really get anywhere at PIMCO without one unless you want to be a glorified office clerk. Then unfortunately a big...

I commend you on your change and evolution. That seems to be the hardest things for traders to do once they figure out how to make money. Once their trading style stops working they still insist on doing the same thing because it used to work and they are unwilling to adapt and change. I had...

So how many emails are you getting about people asking you what you are doing? Everyone of your posts is basically saying the same thing but worded a little differently. How much does your holy grail website cost every month that you are trying to advertise but in a subtle way? Maybe that is...

Has anyone else noticed in the past couple of weeks that the specialist are showing a lot of the 1's and printing thousands of shares or refreshing the size over and over when they do show size so you never get a good feeling that they are ever done with the order? I feel like I am hitting...

Seems also that a lot of people who trade the larger cap NYSE stocks and base their trading off the futures are finding that the stocks are not following the futures that well in a lot of cases. The S&P 500 futures have had some good moves over the past month but the stocks don't seem to be...

Yea I went and looked at some posts by this person and it sounds like a grassroots advertising campaign. There is a lot of the "all I have to do is push the buttons and do what the website says, which tells me when to get in and out, and the money just rolls in".

I have been told employment numbers bring in the volatility

Same thing for me. I wish Ensign would cut a deal with realtick too.

I have been trying out esignal for a month now. All I can say is good thing I did not cancel my Realtick account. There seems to be a lot of bugs and dropped data with esignal.

Birgulino, So when trading 30 contracts at one time and your stop loss gets hit and you need to blow out of your trade how much slippage could you expect by putting in an order in the ES -- .25, .5, a point or more?

So if a trader was trading 50 contracts at one time and say their stop loss gets hit and they need to blow out of their trade. How much slippage could you expect by putting a market order in the ES -- .25, .5, a point or more?

So do you ever have difficulty in getting filled on sizes like that when you want it? I would think you would not have any problems.

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about those products in Europe. Since they got rid of the floors has it change the way the electronic products traded since they do not have to follow the lead of the contracts on the floor anymore in Europe? Are you speculating on the idea of making...

Does this volume that you have posted include overnight volume for the emini or just the volume during the open pit hours. When I looked for volume I could not tell if they separated day and night session volume on the emini so I assumed it included both. What I wanted was a comparison of...

I know that in the US bond market that the volume on the electonic platform has now surpassed the volume on the floor. These seems to be the trend for many products. Is this true for other electonically traded products that have a pit traded counterpart? If so which ones are higher volume...

Jeff, I was told by someone that in the next few months they are going to change the direct plus rule so that you will not be able to use it if the spread is more then 5 cent wide. They will also be showing bids and offers 2 levels deep instead of just the inside quote. Have you heard...

Thanks for the reply. I did not know about this pissing match you speak of. I will do a search and see what has been posted in other threads.

What about speed of quotes updating and refreshing?