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AAwwhhh damn it, again today, had a buy limit on the dow contract at 7500, thinking good support for dow. well as dow started ticking down and my order getting closer and closer to fill i killed it thinking that dont buy it now, maybe i can get it lower, yeah it went a bit lower but still didnt...

At this point i do not depend on my trading profits to keep me living, i have a job that also involves the financial mkts, so i am constantly around it, and am learning new things from varius sources, but am using my own judgement as to what i feel is valuable, there is a lot of bs and i think...

What exactly could greenie say to provide support for the markets? He has tried several times and wasn't accepted well by the mkts, same thing for our "great president" so what exactly can they do??? Not much - imho.

i do trade off the 5 min charts and keep the 30 min charts there as well, i think i am ok with picking setups, for example i was just waiting for the ES today to hit 800or so and initiate a long since it has been stretched on the 5min and the 15min chart, expecting some sort of a snap back, i...

After reading some of these posts and a lot of previous posts i read back in the days,i think i know what the problem is, i was trying to deny it but basically its scared money! I trade much more comfortably and take the setups when i have mkts money, but the moment i get into a situation when...

Ok here is my dillema, i have been trading for one year, trading various instruments, and have had some success and some failures. Overall i have been up 25% on my small act and then gave some back and am slightly up. i have learned to sit on my hands when i dont see a good set up, and once i do...

i just wonder what is the general public going to do if majority of them does start selling out of everything just to be out of the mkts, then by some means we put in some sort of a bottom, rally the mkt several hundred points on nasdaq and they'll just sit there in despair saying, i knew it...

wel ok i guess i can understand that, but how do you define what is normal range and abnormal range when on the dow mini $2 sometimes you have spreads of 30 + points and if it gets hit well ok, im there to provide liquidity so next in line gets it. its not like it was filled over someone else...

WTF!!!!!!!! i have no idea what ib did, but damn i just realizied they only canceled one side of the trade!!! is that possible??? i just covered short that i didnt even know about!!! arent they supposed to bust the entire trade or just that one print that was out of line- never mind i guess now...

yeah but i guess i dont understand what they mean by out of the trading range when i was the highest bid even if there was a spread of 50+ points?!?!?!

what about busted trades on teh minies particulary on the dow $2 contract, there is very little liquidity and the spreads are kinda large, thus the other day i got filled at 8651 and immediately sold at 8746 about 90 point swing, then later the phone rings and the trade is busted. Ok it was out...

hey guys just wondering if any of you have any problems logging into the TWS at night, ok after 1am eastern time. on their site is says its available after 12:30 am but every time i try to log on it just keeps saying trying to log on and nothing happenes. i tried both the web java form and the...

hey bronks jsut curious what kind of size account are you trading with? i thought you were somewhere around 5k or so, i could be worng, if so sorry, but are you comfortable trading 3 contracts with that type of size act. ?

well i came to a conclusion that it will be neither. I traded the ES today and it was a bit better than the NQ but at this time its still too much of leverage for me right now. Im glad that i dont need my act balance to tell me that hey something is not right and blow the acct up. But i did try...

well i guess if you cant pick em up in the bars, go psychic and cop a feel that way. Damn how come i didnt think of this. :eek:

yeah i was wondering about the dow contract but as i read the boards a lot of people were suggesting that the spreads are pretty large on them someitmes. But i guess i could take a look at them. at this point those type of swings are pretty large for my act and thus im trying to get my feet wet...

hey guys i was wondeirng if you could give me a quick opinion on these two. I messed aroung with the NQ and man was it fast, the ES im just watching for now. I was wondering if for someone who is just getting into futures is it more advisable to trade the ES as it apears to be a bit slower than...

so basically i need to route all my trades like this to amex only??? so no more of ib's best routing or smart or wahtever its called? what are the implications of this, if i trade like this, is there a fine, or prohibition of trading in options? Well this throws a curveball into my trading...

WOW, i totaly didnt even think about this rule, hmmmm, i like to scale in and out of the options on the qqq's pair out either in 1 or two contracts. So what exactly is prohibited? what would happen to me if i break the rule? Is scaling in and out of a particular position basically illegal? thnx...

i was going to ask the same thing regarding trading these, I started trading the NQ but at this point its a bit too much for me, today i dont even know how and left 7 points out there in a matter of minute or two, so i was looking for something with less leverage, thus i thought about the dow...