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So you ended up moving to Chicago to trade at a prop futures place? What has been your experience so far? How have they trained you to trade if any training. I just had a friend come back from there who went there to check it out. He currently trades stocks too. He said the futures floors...

Thanks for you help. I will try to contact some of these people. I knew it would be hard to find much out here although I think there is a big opportunity for it. I don't think everyone wants to live in Chicago who trades futures. Anyway jpomerenke I PMed you.

It looks like that definition of prop though is putting up risk money and getting leverage on your money. When I say prop I was talking about percentage split and no money up. Futures are so leveraged that it would not take much money to open your own acct so there is no need to go to a firm...

I have been trading stocks profitably for a couple of years now, but I am getting fed up with the current stock trading situation. It seems you have take more and more risk for the same return and we seem to be losing more liquidity everyday. The trading edge/advantage seems to be in futures...

It works for those who know how to use it, just like any technical indicator. You can say the same thing about people who trade off of stochastics, MACD, Gann based trades, ect -- it works for some really well and does not work for others.

I think you guys are missing the point of the topic. It is about spotting market orders over a limit order showing up on the bid or offer because a market order could potentially move the stock. The topic was not about deciding if the order was a short order or selling of a long position. The...

I just wanted to add something I have picked up and plan for now after seeing a bunch of big time traders blow out their accounts. Yes the market is a lot tougher now and you have to be a lot more selective because in my opinion the light volume makes it much less forgiving. A couple of bad...

Good post daniel_m. You are right I should have stated my trading style earlier. I messed up there. I think I would have taken heat either way, but maybe less than I did. Even after I made the post about my style I continued to receive renewed criticism. At that point I had been completely...

When did I state that I was so cool? Reading and comprehension classes are probably offered by a lot of community colleges in your area. You really read in deep into what I wrote and came up with bad interpretation of it. Maybe it is because you have worked yourself up so bad trying to bash...

Go back an re-read the post. I never said anybody would be afraid of me in person. I was making a comment on how different people act over the internet than in real life. They tend to be nicer and more logical in real life. Over the internet they take on a differnt persona that a lot of...

Go back and read the posts again and count how many people contributed on the topic rather than attack me for asking the question. I think Silk and Breakout did. That encompassed 5 or so posts. The rest was off topic. (I might have missed a couple of posts when counting)

As it turns out I have got a few private messages so I have started to have the conversation I wanted to have. Many did not think it was a crazy topic as you thought. Maybe you need to change your thought pattern. I said the weightlifting comment in jest. It is kind of funny you took it...

I don't scalp nasdaq anymore. I scalp NYSE now and I also trend trade both. Nasdaq stocks still have good intaday trends, although choppy. There is still good money there just not so much in the micro time frame of scalping. I like the ablitliy in nasdaq stocks to limit risk becasue most of...

Nice post. I will give you a PM later today after the close.

Good thing I lift weights. :D

I don't know. I did not come here to fight or to pick one. I started what I thought was a valid thread and have been attacked so I am defending myself when attacked. I would rather have a real discussion instead of this nonsense but it seems that all threads eventually end up like this. I...

I do not think the school thing is that important either but you brought it up in your post. I was just responding. Well if you did not read the background on thread by reading the other messages then you are wasting your time discussing topics that have already been covered. Hopefully you...

Might as well continue this thread off topic since that is where it is going anyway. I think you need to go back and read all my post from the beginning. I never wanted to replicate anyones strategy. Good luck sitting at your house figuring everything out yourself. I never knew I real...

Hey assface go read all the posts. I already stated I am not looking for the holy grail. I am putting in the work. Never said I would impliment any of the strategies here because a lot of them would not fit me. What Silk does works for him but I am not ready for the swings that his style...

You probably did not know or do it on purpose but thanks for defending my position for me. Too bad you did not see it when you were writing your response.