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if you get a yellow picture that's probably the monitor cable. play a bit with the cable or take the monitor to the lab and ask them to replace the cable. cheers 50

I was only paper trading the DIA SSF so far but I was thinking about this. Basically I was worried I wouldn't be able to "sell into the buyers/at the ask" and so on if there are hardly any buyers basically, only MMs forced to make a market literally against their will. You can get liquidity at...

been looking into dual monitor cards, i can get the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, Dual head 128MB also with TV out (why not?), for cheaper than Matrox. I just need a very sharp clear solid stable picture, not blurry or fuzzy. Running the usual configuration (WinXP, eSignal), with CRT monitors (LG...

When watching eminis with eSignal, is there any argument against using NQ #F, ES #F, and also YM #F instead of M3 or U3 and so on? This way I don't need to worry about expirations, and can see a clearer continuous picture of the contracts when I look at larger time frames. Anybody using those on...

same here.

yeah give us some numbers why not. i say bottom line is, a trader shouldn't think he's making a shortcut to easy money by going prop. getting in with more size will simply speed your way south if you don't know what you're doing. and you can't really blame props for their "do size" sales...

doesn't matter. like JWKirkland wrote, there are a lot of apples and oranges out there, just be damn sure you do a very good job picking a good office from a good firm. i guess you did better than me on that one, since you seem quite pleased with your firm.. well at least one of us took a...

jackpot there... they did force us to do volume. every 2 weeks they reviewed volume statistics and took those who were low to a conversation. and said to us that it doesn't pay off to keep us there if we don't increase volume. they said it outright. speedy... there were no profitable traders...

speedy, agree with you there, stock trading per se with $10k is impossible. also pdt rule, uptick rule. that is true. that is actually the main reason i was happy to go prop. however to me personally, the downside outweighted the upside of the deal. today with ib and futures i feel much more...

think of the broker business model for a minute: retail broker gets revenue from commissions. prop get revenue from: 1. commissions 2. desk fees 3. % profits furthermore, they get it all much quicker. they literally force you to trade high volume, whether you are profitable or not...

imho - with $10k you get $50k buying power on ssf and $200k buying power on eminis. for a people who want a foot in the door, that is way more than enough. the problem with prop is that their behemoth attitude towards trading in massive volume (for obvious reasons) simply poisons your...

just go to configure -> hotkeys and config a hotkey to increase price. you can choose by how much and you can even instruct it to transmit automatically. i am new to ib but so far tws looks really great to me cheers yars

JWKirkland well put imho i guess my experience was with #2. Anyway learned a whole lot from my mistakes... and surely back on my feet. Good trading yars

Well you have to start somewhere. I do agree with you that if I had known better what a prop firm is, I would have never gone there in the first place. However, as I wrote, I was stupid enough to fall for the fantasy they professionally sold me, and, once again, I was stupid enough to buy...

How do props make money... you kidding me buddy... you go to an interview at their office, they talk with you nonchalantly about the usual stuff, then they utter something like "the market is hard these days so you really have to think well before you choose to be a pro trader... many of our...

Hi.. I wish to avoid mounting a $30K equities trading account due to the PDT rules, so I would please like to hear any experiences you have with intraday trading or scalping of SSF.... Anyone trading them intraday on a regular basis? How are the spreads, liquidity, etc.? Anyway trading...

the thing is that even if you give your unconscious mind a command (by self hypno), if this command contradicts other strong beliefs in your mind, the effect won't last. i seriously doubt you can take, say, an extremely unconfident person and hypnotize him to be confident by embedding a few...

get Alman's book on self hypnosis. "Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual for Health and Self-Change." check his site www.selfhypnosis.com I just got the book (at amazon) but haven't read it yet. just got interested in the subject, without relation to my trading. Mark Douglas mentions this...

Trading SSF with nice leverage and no uptick rule... sounds good to me. Is the volume these days already good enough for scalping, I mean scalping for 10c - 15c profit on 1000 shares, which means 10 contracts? Cheers yars