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    What do you think of daytrading only with 5-min charts?

    Specifically: - a 5-min chart of the ES - a 5-min chart for each stock - and a 1-min nyse tick chart I think this will probably give me fewer but cleaner trades and will be more profitable in the long run.
  2. K

    Where can I find daily buy/sell volume on a given option?

    Specifically, the number of options bought or sold for the day on a given equity.
  3. K

    Please recommend a no-frills charting package

    All I want are charts with real-time ticks, and the ability to draw a few lines. That's it.
  4. K

    What's the technical term for when you're

    Definitely. I'm screening for high-dollar stocks with volume between 2.5MM and 7MM, an ATR of at least one dollar, and a beta of less than 0.7
  5. K

    What's the technical term for when you're

    Thanks, ATR is exactly what I'm looking for.
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    What's the technical term for when you're

    looking for stocks that have had large intraday swings over the past few weeks? Say I want to look for a stock that's had moves of over one dollar in a given direction in a single day, what am I screening for?
  7. K

    Please recommend a few stocks which share Sunoco's

    average daily volume(3.4MM) and personality to trend frequently. I think the stocks I'm trading are way too jittery for scalping (TXN and KO).
  8. K

    How are the newer prop traders holding up?

    It's still fluctuating wildly. Win ratio is between 48%-66%. The average loser is almost always larger than the average winner, with the positive expectancy fluctating between -$2.22 to $1.10. In my training class, I have the record for the highest and the lowest daily net PNL. It's...
  9. K

    How are the newer prop traders holding up?

    I am getting shut down day after day. I just got shutdown 15 mins ago after going the wrong way on Sunoco. I'm starting to wonder whether this is right for me.
  10. K

    Intraday position trading

    Some branches do, but not this one. It's discouraged because they want us to make money through small price movements by using huge volume. If you punch in 5,000 shares in a stock and it goes your way by three cents, that's $150 in a span of a few minutes or even seconds. My thinking...
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    Intraday position trading

    I'm a trainee at a SwiftTrade branch. As you probably know, we are encouraged to scalp stocks for quick 3-10 cent movements. The idea is that once we work our way up to trading thousands of shares, the profits come quickly. I want to try something different and would like your opinion...
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    Where can I find free intraday tick lists?

    I'm looking for tick data for Texas Instruments; just a list of bid or offer prices by the minute. Preferably something that can be printed out. Thank you.
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    True story of sacrifice, what life is like with brains, balls, but without bucks

    If you're in Canada, consider working in the Alberta oil sands. They are desperate for people and their pay offer reflects it. You're flown to a remote location 10 days at a time where your food and shelter is provided for. And like serving on a ship, there are very few places to spend your...
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    Simulators which don't require a deposit

    I've been looking for a simulator which has charts and real market conditions without requiring a deposit. I found a good one for FX at www.oanda.com, but couldn't find one for futures, stocks, or options. Do you know of any? Thank you.
  15. K

    Halfway through Reminiscence of a Stock Operator. How does the

    Level II relate to tape reading?
  16. K

    Third and final interview at Swifttrade...any advice?

    Side question: How did you answer the question regarding the damaged CD?
  17. K

    Is 27 too old to join Swift Trade?

    Thanks. Right now, I have a day job as well as an evening job. I've saved up around 8 months of living expenses from the former. I'll keep the evening job if Swift Trade accepts me.
  18. K

    Is 27 too old to join Swift Trade?

    I've rummaged through all the threads and the vast majority point to most trainees being under 23.
  19. K

    It is IMPOSSIBLE to make money in the markets

    How many years of failure would you have endured before giving up?
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