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It would be fun if we could see what will be going on behind the scene the first few days of SSF trading. I imagine there are lots of exchange market maker types ready to add fake trading liquidity to keep the SSFs afloat until the real volume picks up. Should be interesting!!

Since it sounds like we have to sell the SSF through the same exchange that we bought it through how will TWS handle this? Will we want quotes from both exchanges? Or am I misunderstanding this rule? Nas

I was already holding Jan and Feb calls before this massacre. My average is pretty low after buying stock tonight. I really think that when this thing shakes out it should be trading well above $25. There is good value hidden behind all the gloom and doom. Could get ugly in the short term. I...

What was with the crazy price action today about 1:30 ET. I have not traded the YM for very long but some one with some muscle was sure driving it nuts for about 10 minutes. I couldn't handle the mood swings and switched to the DIA. I know the Bush speech affected the market but this felt like...

I cant belive how bad THC got pounded after hours tonight. I don't make a habit of bottom fishing but this was just too tempting. It traded as low as 17.75 I hope I still love this stock in the morning :confused: :eek:

Between not being able to short the Q's today and Globex being halted I started to wonder who the hell is trying to hold this market up and why. My conclusion... attack on Iraq must be secretly starting as I am writing this. I am kidding of coarse but something still seems strange about it...

I tried to short the q's today through IB. No shares available. Whats with that?

phoenix .... in your scalping technique do you use the "scratch" at breakeven as a trade exit? I have only been trading the es and nq for a little while but when scalping you will often get a false signal or maybe you got in a little early or late and sense that your trade was wrong...

While we are on this dreaded subject I have this question. What value gets stated for tax purposes when trading futures. Example ... If I trade 1 ES contract is the total trade value for IRS purposes $800 or $40,000 ? If it is $40,000 and I am doing 10 to 20 round trips a day this would be...

I was long a ton of stuff going into Friday morn and I was convinced the market was going to pull back hard some time on Friday so about noon I sold about half of my long positions. The real problem was that I was selling the es at every new rally and got slapped pretty bad. I finally banked...

Yes I am sure I am trading as PDT. I think you are right, once your account has PDT designation that account remains PDT. I have heard that brokerages have slightly different interpretations of pdt rules. I wired more funds today so it shouldn't be a problem but it just seemed strange not to...

I have been buying and holding some options this week and because of this my balance dipped below the $25,000 PDT minimum. I tried to take a long stock position today and got message " trade refused PDT violation" With my other brokerage I could always take as many long positions as I wanted I...

I seem to be really good at throwing in the towel and selling the low print on the chart. I have done better lately by being a little more patient. Just about the time I think I can't take any more bleeding is also the time that buyers seem to step in. I am not advising that people hang on to...

granville x I always watch both. Although I am usually playing the Nas I will watch NYSE Tick also and like the odds when both confirm the same trend. I look to see if the tick trend is increasing or decreasing. In the current market we have had alot of days when the two Ticks ignore each...

I also had problems last Friday and today. I was shorting eminis to protect long positions and lost connection several times. Also hit the cancel on an option bid and lost connection before IB received it and ended up paying high price while they were dropping like a rock. I love IB and have...

I second that. Bullets would be great!! However If the market keeps bleeding at current pace we wont need bullets. Only trend left will be up. :D

I was scalping the Qs a bit today and several times I thought I was in the money while watching T&S and Qcharts only to look at TWS and be at breakeven. Any one else notice this? Is this what we will be seeing alot now because of the Island quote problem. :confused:

My problem has always been my loosers hanging from a 30 foot rope and my winners sold while still just a seed . Its funny some of my best trades have been the ones I walked away from for a while. Come back and find them flyin high. This is the problem that I am working on the hardest. In looking...

I trade several stocks and just started trading es and nq a little but I seem to have a love affair with medi. It has been a little tame lately but usually trades like spitting cobra. I love her violent mood swings even the ass whoopin I some times get when I am not paying attention. I have...

I just started trading through IB and have a question. During the after hours session tonight I posted a limit order to sell 200 INVN @ 30.95 This was pretty far away from the current market. The stock was trading at about 30.45 and I was the highest ask on L2. The current best ask was 30.48...