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Do you know what the ultimate goal is for the firm? Are they looking to completely phase out the prop side of the business just keeping existing traders and not hiring new traders or are they looking to have a half and half business model? I heard that the NY offices are still doing OK numbers...

As an update to this I talked to my friend who trades in the LA office and they are shutting it down along with a couple more of their offices -- I think he said Houston and Chicago but I am not entirely sure on that. I still can't figure out why they were spending money buying firms like...

I will check on that with a friend that trades thru there too. Based on what he told me in the past I would not be shocked by this. From what I heard most of the traders they had in that office were the traders that blew out their accts and it was a refuge of last resort for them. Most were...

Well I have to admit there have been a few traders who have come on here and it was pretty obvious what they were doing. However I have seen the same thing from every other firm who advertises and who does not advertise on here. It is not like the president of the company came to this board to...

Maybe because they don't have to constantly advertise to get new traders in the office to fill the seats of traders leaving for better offices. One thing I have noticed, at least on this board, is that I hear a lot of bad things from ex traders at other firms but I see very few posts from...

You should contact the people over at TT. Let them know you are looking for software for a group of traders. I know some traders who went out there and the TT reps took them around to the exchange floor and to some of the prop shops. It let them see the software in action, talk to some...

Maybe I missed others, but it seems Brandon has really escalated the sales pitches. I have not seen other sponsors start this many threads to promote their products. Maybe Brandon is the only one taking advantage of their sponsorship privileges. I guess if it is working for him more power to...

You were initially answering a question he never asked. He clearly stated that he was asking about Nasdaq stocks (like MSFT, QCOM, DELL) NOT the QQQ. He trades the QQQ everyday so I am sure he already knew island no longer shows up there and he knows what the QQQ are. So basically your first...

I can't figure out some of the above responses and how they got confused on what you were asking. I thought they were joking with you at first. It was pretty clear on what you want to find out. Anyhow I am not aware of any recent changes. Mine still show up in nasdaq. Since you have not...

Making money 70-80% of the days trading futures is possible. I know a few people that run that high. You might want to get in contact with some of the prop firms out in Chicago. I am sure some of them have top traders there who are consistent like you are seeking. However currently I don't...

What happened to the "Tradesize" handle. I see these posts with quotes referring to Tradesize but seems every post by him has been erased. I am confused.

I am glad to hear about your change over to futures. I just made the switch and will be going live next week. I got to the same point you did with stocks of almost never wanting to trade them again. I think a break from stocks will be good. I know I will probably venture back at some point...

When pennies first came out I loved it. At the time there was more volume and institutional activity so things had more follow thru. I could risk 3 or 4 cents with the possiblity of making 15-30 cents all day long. It was great. I was trading mostly nasdaq back then.

It would seem the inefficient NYSE market would provide opportunity for the informed trader. My only complaint with the NYSE system is that in a lot of cases now it is not being implimented in the way it was intended to be as evident by the recent GE specialist bust. When stocks are trading...

I would love to see the P&L of traders who come out here talking about all the available money in trading stocks right now. I have noticed many of these traders are newer traders. For the record though I don't count making $100 or $200 a day as being wildly successful. Yes it is nice to pull...

NYSE Floor Trader Is Placed on Leave By Rebecca Byrne Staff Reporter 04/16/2003 06:08 PM EDT Click here for more stories by Rebecca Byrne A New York Stock Exchange floor specialist who manages the stock trading of General Electric (GE:NYSE - news - commentary - research - analysis)...

It seems that some of the firms promote or have the culture of scalping the futures, especially the euro stuff. There seem to be a lot of ex nasdaq scalpers in these firms. However there are some others that have a culture of making a few good trades a day too. Like anything there are some...

It is funny that you name is Holdem since the "Hold" em Brothers just shut their office down there.

The best nasdaq traders I know of all quit in the last two months.

Actually I still hear about Manning too. He is still putting up the big numbers on big volume, but nothing like that guy from schonfeld did that was mentioned in one of the earlier posts.