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Yes, Def, Are the multicurrence accounts for the near future ? Anybody known if you can get daytrading margins for the Dax like you can get for the Mini's ?

Yes, computers systems are not infallible. But I just talked with someone at IB and he told me that for the Eurex market their system was down 2 minutes in the entire year. A little calculation comes to a reliability of 99.99885 % uptime. To be really...

Yes, the market makers are there for the initial liquidity but they don't have to be there at all Look at Eurex, there are no open-outcry pits like in the S&P and it's working so fast and it is so tranparent. What are the disadvantages of completely elec- tronic...

Don and Gene, If you can trade succesfully on the stock market, why you should not be able to trade succesfully on the Forex market ??? You have spreads to overcome in both markets, there is enough movement in both. One is not better than the other. Just...

Well, a nice evolution is going on in the marketplace. Island's share in volume for the QQQ grew from 5.9 % in january 2001 to 28.73 % in january 2002. Same thing for the S&P futures. ALready 40 % is done electronically when adjusted that the E-mini is 1/5 of...

Correction ; The moment I stopped to look at......

Funster, Your frustration with the trading game irritates me too...... Go back to your old business and leave trading for what it is (Random; of course)

Funster, No I don't make 70000,-$ a week with trading. You knwon what your problem is, you are too much focused on the MONEY, my man. The moment I started to look at my intraday profit or loss numbers, I became more focused on my trading and my...

Analogy ; fuel = learning money don't consume too much fuel before you reach cruise altitude...

I like to compare reaching that level of spirituality with an airplane that is climbing to cruise altitude. A beginning trader starts on the runway. He has his seatbelts around him. The airplane accelerates and takes off. Take-off and landing are...

MBT3 You say it so beautifull.....!!! Yes, you have to reach a level of spirituality. When I'm trading behind my computer with "smooth jazz" on the background I'm not anymore from this world. I enter another world, I feel like I'm...

Just like MBT3 I spent night's investigating and looking at the S&P 500 futures charts. And ONE night I saw something, I tought about it and started to look if there was some value in that idea and YES, EUREKA, it was there .... That was the night I started...

Things should be made as simple as possible but not any simpler... Albert Einstein.

THE MOST VALUABLE THING IS INTUITIUON... Albert Einstein. Where do you think he got his idea for the relativity theory ??? There are things you cannot explain.... Just like traders feel it is time to take a certain...

THE ART OF TRADING The road to mastery begins with the science-- the rules of your system, but it ends in the art. In the art is where the trader becomes superior.

The science of trading ; Before there can be the intuitive leaps made by an experienced trader, there must be a rigid adherence to the rules of the system... This is the science.

Yes, it's not random at all ! Even on a very short time frame of minutes, what most think of as noise, is just not noise. But that takes experience to see that..... It's like after 20 years knowing someone that you can see with great certainty how...

That's correct ! However there are a few banks that make up to 50 % of their profits by directional trading.

Don, First of all, I am completely independent. I make my living daytrading E-mini's and would like to trade for family and friends and other's who show interest. Because of the limited liquidity, I want to to direct my trading for those to the Forex...

And no, this relative doesn't trade for Deutsche Bank.... This were the fees 4 years ago....