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    How big is the impact of individual day traders?

    individual retail traders are mostly scalpers or front runners in liquid high volume securities
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    How big is the impact of individual day traders?

    a single retail individual technically doesn't have muscle or buying or selling POWER the price in highly liquid securities. Market makers or institutions with large positions move markets....ie. a market maker is an 'individual' or large shareholder is an 'individual' or single entity.
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    Interactive Brokers - I'M MAD AS HELL!

    if you are feeling sick in the hospital bed,,,close all your financial accounts.
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    Interactive Brokers - I'M MAD AS HELL!

    if they don't offer that service than go to a broker who does, you don't have to do business with interactive broker. and make sure you don't have more than $5000 in your interactive broker account.
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    Ideas on picking a trading "partner" and how to compensate him/her...

    there is only three reasons you would need trading assistant 1. you have too much capital 2. you have no time to daytrade full time and have better things to do or profit is too smal. 3. you can't trade.
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    Ideas on picking a trading "partner" and how to compensate him/her...

    and if the trader is that good why would he trade for you and give you 50% of his profit.
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    Ideas on picking a trading "partner" and how to compensate him/her...

    prop traders get 50% of profit assuming the trader is a professional and only using your capital. Minimum is 25% of profit. 50% is minimum if the trader can trade Essentially, the trader is using your capital.
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    Trading for a living; only very few can

    if you are only making $30,000/year trading than it's just a average job. people move on from trading and get into another satisfying career.
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    Trading for a living; only very few can

    as a profession of self-employment, you need to make a min. of $120,000/year gross.. a sales rep or real estate broker makes more than some traders.
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    Trading for a living; only very few can

    if you are only making $50,000 working full time. and have no other source of income,,,it's not that great of a job in terms of income.
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    Trading for a living; only very few can

    a lot people don't want to be full time traders.
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    America down the toilet

    than you don't want to stuck with shares you can't sell see your shares drop 80% in value in any country.
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    Veteran Traders?

    and if you are bored, you would trade for excitement...and BOREDOM is another reason for traders blowing up.
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    Veteran Traders?

    humans are social animals by nature. dealing with numbers and charts is boring if that all you do all day.
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    Veteran Traders?

    The idea is a trading group account or trading pool account. Why not have one person trade for the 10 person in the group. Being in a trading group is more for socializing rather than just getting setups. People who trade alone at home lose the social part of being in a office place...
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    Interactive Brokers Data Fee?

    a trader without cash is out of business. $500 isn't enough to buy a months gas bill or desk fee
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    Interactive Brokers Data Fee?

    if you don't even have $3000 in risk capital. you should just shut down your account. it means you don't have money to risk.
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    Are you best off just leaving your money in the Bank?

    even the brokersage/investment banks don't have money...FED had to lend them money at discount window to maintain liquidity. 2% is a gift from the FED when inflation is 3% and rising
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    Are you best off just leaving your money in the Bank?

    there is no new money to invest, what don't you understand. savings rate is 0% with stagflation reality. theory of savings/investments
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    Ever feel like you're *this* close to making it?

    trader 'gremlins' always come to haunt you. even if you've made it you have to deal with self-sabotage. self-sabotage is when you trade to lose and you know it. self-sabotage is another reason for traders blowing up.
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