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    Genesis Laser

    How is the option trading tools in Lazer? I here they were added. This may be a good thing to compete with the other software that trade more asset classes.
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    Making a living with a $30K account

    Trading prop with a leverage firm and your own account and trading other people money through managed accounts or a fund is not even comparable. I know plenty of traders that start the year out with 50k to 100k in their account and pull in 500K-7500 on good year...
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    GOOG CFO quits

    no more infomatin flow to get the heads up.
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    San jose, California

    I have room for about 5 to 6 traders in Morgan Hill.....South Bay....professional only would be offered space.. I also have 2 or 3 terminal in Solana Beach ( next to DelMar) that are open. I also have some space in Incline Village for CTA or managers in a converted condo...
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    Who gets the "Props" for training..?

    You seem very bright and are asking good questions. It can be done through the Semi Prop shops and you do not have to do the Wall Street route. It just takes time, passion and hard work to get your systems or method down and than contacts made to help you network. My advise...
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    Trading Software - Backtesting and Realtime Scanning

    Yes it is. The back fill engine for brokers and data providers is different per each entity. Most limit the tick data to a few days to month and min data to a few years. The lines of data are just to much.
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    Cbot Down!!!

    IB is not that great when this stuff happens, my broker at a mid tier firm will call me when the exchange goes down and I get email from compliance. I think IB is your problem. All tht great automation with no support = issues when shit happens.
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    Best Broker For Intraday Index Futures Trading???

    Zen Fire is all about the API to the exchanges, Zen is using the Linux based connection for the fastest data and order throughput while TT is on a different style connection to exchange API. Finally some competition for the TT crew who want to take 10 cents out of...
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    Do you need series 7 to trade prop?i

    CBOE member firms will allow a professional trader to trade without a lic...Im me and I can give you a few firms to check with.
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    Trading Platforms Pros and Cons - What is your favorite trading platform

    Ami Brokers and Ninja Trader combined in the best mix that we have found. Ninja has worked very hard to fix the bugs in their new version 6.0 and that is great to see. You may want to look at Neoticker as a third option and some tick precise tool that make it quite...
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    Trading Systems -- newbie

    Look at volume patterns on that price action and you will have better performance.....price action and volume is all you need.
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    Campbell, John Henry Get Losses on Carry Trade Exit

    They lost about 75% of his Assets under managment (AUM)........not 75 % in losses.......there goes those big management fees that mangement lives off of. How sad to see this happening. It most be a new age of risk and money managments methods as these older experienced...
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    NinjaTrader/IB HSI volume bar backfill doesn't work

    Go get the $30 buck plus exchange feed from esignal for the data manager and you can get the ticks and build those volume bars. Can than also bring in tick and trin and cash prem on index cash if that helps you out...
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    Looking for $500 margin and decent RT fee...anybody have experience with IB direct?

    Trade at Global at yout own risk and please do not let this low margin day trade marketing spiel persuade you. if you have $5 to $10 grand than wait til you save up $25 k and start than. High leverage will kill you eventually on small accounts. I have been in this business...
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    Worst call by cramer ever?

    I agree with Uptick....you need fools involved to make the easy money. This will happen at the top of an move and also the bottom when the vicious cycle starts over. You need the herd going strong to see the countertrend moves last and develope into full reversals. I love...
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    RBC Carlin

    Don is a complete marketing whore with no clue of what the future holds for the arcade or prop models.....His $2500 a month he pays to ET in sponsorship goes along way to bring in his next crack addict.......sorry I mean low capitalized trader looking for leverage. Enjoy...
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    Alaron changing Day trading margins?

    Global Futures is the "worse IB" out there and have the worse reputation in this business. They churn accounts on their low margin like my favorite uncle in Greenbay, WI churns his butter daily. Complete scum bages........buyer beware...go anywhere else. if you have...
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    how are prop traders seeing this market?

    Best 3 weeks of action since the internet boom/bust for traders with rules and disiplane to keep each trade in line with the next. There is even so much opportunity that you can hide or make up for mistakes very easily if one does occur. Both stock and futures traders...
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    NinjaTrader tick chart

    It does not back fill on IB data. Try a simulation account and they may have data that you can back fill with. NINJA does save data from some major markets but not all.
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    TT - End of transactional billing w/ GFETC?

    Zenfire gateway is 25% faster than TT on a RT from the West Coast. Been on Ninja for 4 months now and never had an issue. I trade 200RT to 500RT a day and not lost an order yet or had any data or packets lost yet on my T1 line. They need to add a number pad to change...
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