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  1. uptik2000

    What has been working well?

    yeah shorts...personally....I've just been churning/running in place in my daytrading account....and making some good $ in the swing acct just doing some good old fashion research....being in a downtrend, looking for stocks making new lows..or pulling up from lows with low volume...then getting...
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    Watching the paint dry...

    gerry- not bad....but the pic is a bit blurry... thanks to all the other posters who put up links.
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    patterns

    i like this one....don't know if it has a catchy name..just a continuation pattern i guess.....
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    Who is your favorite permabull to ridicule?

    optional777- i almost pissed myself...that chimp picture is killing me! LOL:D
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    Real-time Chats

    www.scottrade.com very basic...1 chart...10 quotes.......good for realtime back up. not the best, but its free like a sore weiner, you can't beat it.
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    Looking for a trading pos at a prop firm

    sometimes they do..sometimes they don't...depends on experience ,education, etc..... from things I've heard(and i don't know this for sure) there really isn't much training there unless you get on a team with an experienced trader who wants to train you...but thats just what I've heard..I...
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    what the f@!# is wrong with my trading?!

    .45 to .47 risk to reward is that a typical ratio you use? seems kind of dangerous
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    Looking for a trading pos at a prop firm

    Husky02- with the experience you have , you may want to check out First New York Securities and/or Schonfeld Securities www.firstnewyorksecurities.com www.schonfeld.com from what I know, most other places are the, "here's your desk, go get 'em" places. so unless you know what and...
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    Domestic Securities? Anyone here trade for them?

    good luck traderNYC....I just can't understand why anyone would want to give away half the profits that they work hard for. what are they giving you for that? the use of their money? you can get that anywhere else and keep 95% or even 100% of your profits.
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    Domestic Securities? Anyone here trade for them?

    TraderNYC- how much do you have to put up? how much are you paying for the "training"? tia
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    Domestic Securities? Anyone here trade for them?

    ok...if i remember correctly.... you have to put up $5,000 .....and you can only trade 200 shares of what they say you can trade....if you lose $2,500.you cannot trade until you put up another $2500.....now that is bad enough ...but there are other firms that have similar "deals". but here's...
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    Domestic Securities? Anyone here trade for them?

    i met with people there..the package was a f'n joke. this was a year agowhen they were "All-Tech", so things may have changed.
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    I hate my Broker or Prop Firm

    (UPS)...you know,big brown trucks, big brown uniforms etc..bring you nice packages.
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    you have 17yrs to theEnd. what do you do?

    If in 15 or so years this comes true.and you know ther is no way to stop it, what would you do in your final years? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=624&e=1&u=/ap/20020725/ap_on_sc/asteroid_threat_2
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    How to know when youre not cut out for this?

    i say hang in there! and HAVE A GAME PLAN. go back to small positions if you have to. do not keep a realtime p/l on your screen. stick to your game plan . if you really want to trade and you need money now..maybe a night job or something to get the "if i lose $ , i'll go broke" fear out of your...
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    Echotrade Problems

    hans- have you had good experiences with pointdirex?
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    I hate my Broker or Prop Firm

    should we start a support group? :p
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    Echotrade Problems

    Bryan- a T-1, T-3 , T-10 ..isn't gonna make a difference when the outages are at the main servers. I'm sure you got the electronic message "Do not send orders to NYSE" this morning. I'm not saying Echo is bad, but it could be better. theshadow- and to the post about the firms are only out to...
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    Echotrade Problems

    spec and Bryan- I've been having problems with Echo remote too. It hasn't been horrible...but it's far from great. And I spoke with a few people at one of the offices , they said they've been having problems too. When I was at MBT , there was at least one problem a week. So maybe there...
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