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If you are a successful prop/retail trader... I dont think there is another job worth switching over too....one thing I would want to do would be to be able to swing trade for a few weeks with big size...and as my day job " hobby" I would be a personal trainer... to interact with other...

Yea usually on 2nd tick I try to get out....3rd tick im out aggressively as well.

Well Yeah I am confident to play 2k shares on Citi... but 2k shares.. on Alcoa or or BaC ... is not soo easy plus my heart would stop lol , 200 shares is good for now til i get confident enough... and consitent

Sorry I cant comment where I am from... I dont think it matters either.

well the 1k /2k is for citigroup mostly, everything else ( while being waited to get a fill on Citi ) I trade myself, based on my own "setups' and research from home. this week I am up 180$ total on 3 days... all positive...I'm actually using a strategy that one person uses here also from...

I can now trade 200 shares on any stock up to 20$ and I can do 2000 shares on stocks under 5$. Edit: Also max loss for the day allowed is 100$ on the account before it gets closed for the day.

Yeah I guess, yeah I guess they want me to be more aggressive, since I have been making progress. So far this week is good...up 120$ on 2 days. I'm trying to work on becoming consistent right now, and I'll increase my size slowly....also I hide my Pn/L coz I want to trade of what Isee not how...

Can someone tell me what am I supposed to do ? Obviously this is something like an "arcade" they are PUSHING volume big time, and my volume is very low compared to others..while my net pn/l is equal or greater. Every day a tiny piece of the puzzle is revealed to me....

I dont know what happend, but Ive been getting better over the past 2 months. I do about 100-200 share lots, making about 5,000 Volume daily... averging 30-70$ dollars, 2 days + then third day i lose maybe 10-20$ max... and it repeat... I like using the 5 minute bars the most, coz I like...

Best thread on these forums !!! LOOKING FORWARD TO IT AND GOOOD LUCK NEKE !

Hide your Profit/Loss dont trade of how much you make / lose. Set a daily stop max loss for yourself. Have a reason for your entry/exit , confirmed by a pattern/tech breakout/volume , dont just exit coz your green...is the stock in bullish trend? above 20day ema ? increasing buying...

Lets do it big guys !!! 2010 Year of the Tiger !!! ROAR!

LMFAO DUdE youre %#@!$% HILARIOUS !!!!! HAHAHAHA

Epic fail.

in Quotetracker they are equations.... so basically I write down the price levels,. in the mornig at home, and when I go to work I draw my own lines with the primitive lines on sterling....on my charts, but its a pain to do it for like 20 stocks on my stock list, so I only pick like 5 each...

Did you make alot of money ? It looks like you did..

Ok we are using Sterling trader and I completely hate the software, on top of that it cost 200 something a month to rent it, for what it does its horrible. I am soo used to using my retail software from TDA like Quotetracker mainly because it shows me all the pivotpoints automatically for...

Also, the firm said once we prove ourselfs to them, they give us more leeway like bigger stop losses, more bp, more shares, more volatile stocks, right now we can trade any stock up to 20$ with about 35 cent intra day spread. I have been trading AMAT AMD AA AMR DAL UAUA HL and some others...

First of all, thank you everyone ( almost ) for the positive replies. Ok for the current economic conditions I cannot find a normal salaried job, therefore I am trying this to get some type of experience / do something with my life. Second of all, I cannot trade less than 100 shares, thats...

So I started trading in 2008 in a retail account, lost a crap load of my savings, had no clue what i was doing. Graduated college in May, joined a prop firm a month ago, different world. Also did alot of research on tech analysis, price action, volume, pivots, trend lines, candles and...