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i've followed the thread a little off and on, and that post hit me like a ton of bricks! so God gets the credit for the good things and you get the blame for the bad things? whoa! hey man, if you are going to let God control your trading, then put on a blindfold, punch keys and let your faith...

my policy is to do whats fair, even if its not in my personal best interest. you cant control other peoples actions, only your own. granted, i havent been in the position yet and i may change my tune when staring at a big lump of cash :)

i have never been involved in a trade that someone wanted to bust, or a trade at a price that was "clearly erroneous." but i would suggest the simple mantra of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." if you mistype a price and get filled instantly, and it costs you thousands of...

if i remember right, i was not impressed either when i opened my account at IB. but i wired the money and i was trading within like the next day or two. i hated the TWS platform initially but now i rather like it. maybe it is an acquired taste :) it seems like i have rarely had an outage...

please let us know how it turns out.. i definitely wouldnt sell now, not with a big profit for padding. IMO wait a week to be sure, and then sell it. out of curiosity, care to mention the trade? (dammit i was on the other end of that! &#%% typo! :))

whew, now that i have my 100th post out of the way! (see the "suggest a tagline" thread, it was a doozy :)) i wouldnt've even noticed except i think inandlong pointed out when i was at 99! anyway, here is my 101st: i have thought a lot about that question, i mean since years ago, not just...

the blind leading the blind.. http://elitetrader.com a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gamblers Anonymous i was just going along with the humorous posts :) baron if you want to get some serious replies, limit everyone to one or two entries.

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vhehn and limitdown got it right.. look people.. do you think the prop firms are in business to hand out money? you think they should be a CHARITY working for YOUR best interest? go home and cry to your mommy!! you think they dont have their own profit expectations? you think if they...

it's pretty simple.. there's all kinds of support trendlines between 905 - 925. if the spoos break a few of those.. time to short! personally i think it could be time to short tomorrow afternoon (into a rally), or it could be as late as the end of the month. but probably no later.

are you sure its an MM and not some homebrew traders program?

i dont think there is any regulation against shorting an IPO.. just most brokers dont do it because the shares are hard to locate for a while. i think prop firms (member firms) can short regardless. maybe someone will confirm/deny?

you were right.. you were going long (i.e. buying) a butterfly spread. whoever took the other end of the trade was risking $5 to make $0.35, and counting on the stock NOT going up. sounds like you were getting the better end of the deal. anyway, its not always the case that going long is a...

plum is correct.. they are electronically traded mini (referring to the margin requirement) contracts on S&P500, nasdaq-100, and dow indexes. i don't know of any other e-minis.. the reason they are so popular (or getting that way anyway) is: high leverage + high liquidity. you can easily...

save your money until you have a small stake ($10k+) and then start trading emini naz-100 and S&P futures. the leverage and commissions are as good as what you will get at a prop firm. you will lose your stake, but you will learn something in the process. you dont learn much losing someone...

sounds like they are simply doji candles. basically a squat is a bar with a higher volume than previous bars, but producing a lower price change/range.

you need as much 'screen time' as you can get.. since you want to focus on TXN, watch it trade as much as you can. watch the price fluctuations and how it reacts to news, how it follows the broader market, how it reacts at different times of the day, around earnings, options expiration, end of...

at the profit target, there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't let half the position ride with a trailing stop.

if it works, it shouldnt be hard to get money to trade it.. one contract is $2k margin ($3k to be safe). heck.. if it works, i'll code it, fund it, run it, and split the profit with you.