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http://marketrac.nyse.com/mt/index.html This is a great site if you are a listed trader, I use it to find out which specialists are handling which stocks. If I'm trading a new stock, I might look here to see if I've encountered the specialist before. The site shows you which post the stock...

A company will always declar ahead of time the date that it will pay out a dividend. It doesn't matter unless you are holding overnight. If you hold it long, you get the dividend. If you are short, you have to pay the dividend...

If you are with a professional or proprietary firm, the amount of capital in your account isn't usually an issue, since you are trading the firm's money and they will extend as much margin to you as you need, within reason. I've had $40,000 in my account for most of the year, but have moved...

I need a new home computer for the family and was looking at a Dell that comes pre-installed with Win XP home. I want to be able to network it with my trading computers in my basement office, which run win 2000. I'd like to have access to my files and programs from the living room rather than...

Yes. I've been doing some trend following pairs using 60 minute bars and bollinger bands. It's usually best to go with the trend when the spread starts to ride on of the bands, basically going parabolic in it's movement. If you are trading convergence, this would be a bad sign and you...

"Assuming the markets are efficient" There's your first mistake. "...there is no way to make arbitrage profits" There's your second mistake. Seriously, if the EFM were true there would be no such thing as a long term successful trader. Trading firms make their money off the...

The common trait among successful traders is that they truly believe and accept that they have no idea what a stock or the market is going to do. They can quote probabilities and make educated guesses and have conviction, but they realize that nobody knows what is going to happen. To a...

I've heard from what I'd call a reliable source that several of one of the more well known prop firm's top traders were leaving because all their strategies were ending up as subject matter in the firm's training seminars.

There are countless discussions on this board talking about how those two things can constitute an edge (hint: nyse specialist system)

Ever heard of arbitrage? A lot of pros will be trading the spread between the stocks and the futures. Don't forget that the world of single stock futures is limited to about 100 large caps, and there are considerably more than that yeilding good trading opportunities every day. Limiting...

It sounds like there are some B/D's who aren't quite ready to go yet. Once everyone is online, volume should increase greatly. My firm says their software won't be ready for ssf's until later this week.

Same thing at Echotrade. You can count on a message about a problem at ARCA on a daily basis. It's an ARCA problem though, not a problem at the broker/dealer.

I agree with your theory also and it seems to me we have a long way to go yet. I think we still see a massive sell off that scares people so thouroughly that they swear off equities and turn their backs on the markets. I think it will become a situation of mass apathy by the public and will...

Seth, maybe you are underestimating how little it costs to get into a decent multi-monitor setup. I bought 4 used Sony trinitron 21" monitors for $200 each from a company that liquidates lease returns. Matrox video cards go on Ebay for $50. If you want to add another computer, what's that...

I started trading full time in January of this year and agree with Calibertrader's post. I lost money for the first 4 months, got to breakeven after 6 and passed my 1st year goal of $40k last month. I already had some experience in the markets, so I didn't have too much in the way of the...

I have eight monitors and could honestly make use of two more. But it all depends on what you are trading. I like to watch for several different opportunities that might pop up and watch 3 or 4 individual stocks in many different sectors. Plus I have a daytrading account, a swing trade...

By thier nature, futures will almost always trade at a premium to the common. This is because you don't have to pay interest on money tied up in the stock position. As you get closer to expiration, the spread will narrow to 0. In a higher interest rate environment, the premium will be larger...

qcharts says maybe a month away. I downloaded the streaming quote thing from NQLX's site, but can't get any quotes. Do you have to put in a month code with these? Is anyone trading them?

But if you want to trade futures, you have to fund a seperate account with another $10k minimum.

Why are you happy? Haven't you been short IBM and MSFT with options for the last 5 or 10 points each?