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But I think all the stocks are doing well. Republican president is good for economy. ____________________________________________________________________________ The stock market performs significantly better under a democrat president. I am not trying to get into politics but am a stickler for...

What are your thoughts please? ____________________________________________________________________________ People used to tell me the way I traded would give them a heart attack - that was a long time ago. Now I look at how some traders with small accounts relative to the massive leverage they...

RSX (ETF) - Russia stock Index, has been rockin like a hurricane! This is my own creation - global stock indexes.

Here is another good article with Eric Honsador which simplifies how orders re picked off by HFTs and a few things traders can do to minimize the hit on your orders...

The cable had broken through major support along with the thinner trading volume in the extended hours. Seen this before - nothing new, when major support is broken all hell can break out.

What Ray Dalio is saying is the essence of what makes derivative trading so darn appealing - many of us at any time only have a small percentage (<10-20%) of our capital in the market at a given time which gives us incredible upside while still having plenty of liquid capital - this is how it is...

You may want to look at some of the detailed work done by Eric Honsador on the market micro structure of order flow, you can find it buried on-line. I believe he is the top dog in this arena. http://www.nanex.net/Research/IsNBBOIgnored.html

Why does every new trader say they want to day trade? Why not think out of the box: like, 'I want to make money - while trying to preserve capital through the learning curve, and would like to do this for the rest of my life'. Try Googling or GoDucking the many academic studies on the success...

Lol 2010 is lightyears in the last in regard to HFT, and this is an HFT only question when u get sub ms. ____________________________________________________________________________ The question did not say anything about sub ms - he is asking about delay between ticks. The report I found is...

Trump loves Russia and they love him.

This info is from Oct 14, 2010. it may be a bit out of date? The SEC’s recent concept release on market structure states: “The average latencies of the consolidation function at plan processors (from the time the processor receives information from the SROs [trading venues] to the time it...

According to the Bank for International Settlements, foreign-exchange trading increased to an average of $5.3 trillion a day. To put this into perspective, this averages out to be $220 billion per hour. The foreign exchange market is largely made up of institutional investors, corporations...

Wow - Curtis Faith. He is one of the first to use computer back testing & automated trading. Looks like another one bite the dust! Hard to believe, he always cam across as laid back and seemed like he was smart and humble. Just goes to show 'your worst trade has not happened yet'. None of us...

Russia's market should go parabolic like it has been since Putin installed Trump as president. Their Exxon partner will give them trillions in oil profits that were frozen during sanctions, hence Trump in turns installs an Exxon CEO as secretary of state and get his massive debts removed in turn...

Try consulting with the tech support at TradeStation - They have a low latency/ high performance network for institutional & HFT -colo'd at the CME and globaly via FCM360. I use 'fill or kill' which are priority - don't want to be sitting in the LOB (limit order book) - sitting duck for HFTs...

Have been long on CMG since last Friday based only on the chart pattern - just a small position . So far it's confirming the pattern with the big volume today - only time well tell if it reaches its measured move.

What is stupid is accepting living in a country that has gun violence off the charts compared to other industrialized nations. Now children in schools are being taught active shooter drills while there overseas peers are not traumatized with this B.S. People need to change their attitudes - or...

If your a rules based trader and have decent discipline than 90% of trading is just showing up.

Geez - try getting a sense of humor. What makes you so freakin anal retentive?

Tell me this? How would you solve the US gun issues? ___________________________________________________________________________ I would make it so each bullet is embedded with a unique identifier - for easy tracing back to the person that bought it. First offense for carrying a gun during the...