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Sounds like a large sell program with little depth and liquidity, because that's the way the market is now. No large limit orders on the book. Less specialist and market makers adding to liquidity.

I agree. For those not willing to build their own PC, this sounds like the best idea to me.

For most traders, unless your using VERY large spread sheets or programs that use a lot of audio or video resources, high clock speeds and very large blocks of ram make very little difference. Even a quad core running WIN XP with 4GB of ram with a clean hard drive will run very well. I was an...

I like the set up but I would go with a faster but smaller hard drive or solid state drive. I like the: Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500HLHX 450GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Not sure if Dell sells it. Requires newer motherboard with SATA 6.0Gb/s.

As a general rule, if you're looking to raise millions, fund to funds, family offices and wealth investors are looking to invest in a strategy or a hedge fund that has audited statements. They want to see your worst day and your best day. They like to see your average monthly returns, but they...

Execution traders sometime execute the orders, some times they send the orders out for brokers to work. In that case, they are given a budget to spread the commissions around. In return, they often get either research, access to IPOs or something else of value. So in this case, they would be...

How far are you from Englewood, NJ?

Why do you have to use Lightspeed?

Also, for option traders trading as firm, the floor charges are much higher than customer. Where do you have your pm account?

The firm I'm referring to was not a prop firm, but the traders had commingled money. No, I won't give the name. It's not the issue. By the way, you firm does not take those accounts either. Our target market is hedge funds, trading groups and active traders. We don't target retail accounts and...

I know your firm. They do not. I have met and spoken to many prop firm managing members over the past few months, they all tell me if guys are not active, they lose their desk, or their rates go up, a lot.

Yes, but I can control and take responsibility for my trading and my risk. I know of a situations where the was a trading group where 3 of 10 traders were up big money, and got paid $0.00 because 2 of the 10 blew out the firm. I was not part of the group. I will never commingle my money with...

Make no mistake. Prop firms encourage leverage, because it increases trading volume. Traders sit in a room and are asked to trade or lose their spot on the floor. Maybe not all prop firms, but many. Yes, as an introducing broker, we want volume also. However, we don't insist our customers...

I believe leverage, when used to take advantage of situations that have "edge", increase profitability. However, you have to be comfortable with the risk, and use it at the right times. Never to gamble. My focus has been, that if you have the assets for a segregated customer portfolio margin...

Send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send you an excel file with the list. Bob

If your trading in a Portfolio Margin account, and your equity drops below the $100K threshold, you would be expected to add funds to your account to maintain the PM margin and risk profile associated with the account. If you don't add funds the next day, the following day, your account would...

Acquire Media has a news program that is a news accumulator from many sources. There might be a way to connect NewsEdge v8 to your basket strategy. So when any news appears with that symbol, your strategy disables that symbol until you turn it back on. Let me know if you need a contact there...

I agree. To many traders this social interaction is everything. I was an Amex market maker for many years. I loved being around other traders. But, it's not for everyone.

You can go into the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del), and view CPU and RAM usage. Sometimes machines slow down because of Virus protection running too much crap in the background or Windows and other software updates. You could also be wasting windows resources on your video card. If it's...

If you live in NYC or another city that Bloomberg has offices, you can take a free class on how to use the terminal. The owner of the terminal has to sign you up. Bloomberg is not very user friendly. Feels like your using PC-DOS.