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Yea I believe it wad John Paulson who was begging Goldman for more counter parties to put on more size on the trade. He made 500% or so on that trade, I think to the tune of of 5 or so billion dollars. Probably one of the best trades ever executed might I add.

If you want to be a great discretionary trader that manages huge sums of money you have to spend years honing your trading skills. If you go off and get a masters/degrees you will not be spending that time honing your trading skills. All the big shots you mentioned are there not because they...

thanks for your input xandman

I trade at a prop firm and looking to expand my product selection, I just need to be better informed of what else is out there because eventually I could get access to other energy products as long as I ask for it. Also meeting other energy traders is something I am interested in as well.

Looking to see if it's worth the 2 grand they charge for 2 day courses in Houston and some other cities for some continuing education in the energy field. Particularly interested in the Physical crude oil trading course. So just wondering if anyone has taken any of their courses (not the...

The IB Orderbook trader is a piece of junk and wish to develop my own interface completely customized to my needs. That's why I was looking to see if anyone built or partially built one and I can just take that source code and continue to develop it. Ninja trader is its own brokerage now I...

If you have, please pm me. I am developing one in c# and would consider paying for something similar and further customizing it myself. Or if anyone wants to partner up to build one I'm open to that too. Also if anyone knows any good 3rd party software that has a good market depth trader...

Interesting. How would I be able to find out what my cnbc lag is? do you test against say a non farm number to measure the lag? Or something soohisticated.

They get better commissions that's for sure. So obviously that's an edge. There's also the advantage of pooling in money and splitting the cost of an expensive subscriptions which can help your edge, ie bloomberg, tick data, news services, etc. Also you would have access to larger amounts of...

You cant really store electricity or not efficiently anyway. That kinda ruins the whole idea doesnt it.

Cool thanks for that suggestion. I was leaning towards some mysql type of solution, where i get a mysql server and upload to the server and then have the data stream to the other computer

Yeah I get what you're saying however it wouldn't be possible because i need the data streamed from one computer to another so how do I link up the computers is the big question.

thanks for your suggestions. I don't think dropbox will work because once it's open on the other side it won't update unless you close it and reopen it again which won't work for me. I think using mySQL as a middleman is probably the way to go. Need to investigate that further. AS for using...

Hey folks, maybe you guys can help me with this. I need to transfer streaming excel data from one computer to another via the internet. The data is a live quote stream from CQG's excel feed and need that same data to appear on another Excel workbook in a different computer without too much lag...

No I don't have to ask for anything i just click on charts and they pop up. I will admit that the charts are not that great and sometimes they just plain don't work. Which is why i'm grateful I have cqg for my charts which is great for the spreads I trade. Even for the illiquid contract I can...

Tradator. I use xtrader and not sure what you mean by no overnight carrying of positions for spreads on md trader. Is this because you restart xtrader each night and your md trader shows you as being flat the next day even though you actually have a position on. If so there are two ways around...

The various books by William Oneil might give you some ideas. He even has a book titles how to sell stocks short. Its mostly chart patterns from what I remember. I used to look up shorting candidates by using finviz.coms screener to look for financially weak companies and pair those up with...

Yes I know people who are consistently profitable scalping the es. That however doesnt mean you will make money in it consistently. Your trading style might not be compatible with the es. I wish I could say I could pull profits day in day out but I am forced to trade other things most days...

If it's based on fundamentals, how do you know it would have performed well the prior 8 years before live trading? Do you enter trades on technicals?

Correct me if I'm wrong as im not a poker player but isn't theres a big difference in odds in poker vs trading. In poker the odds of winning can be calculated with 100% certainty. In other words the odds wont change no matter what so you can bet a hand with certainty that your odds are 60%...