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This has nothing to do with scalping, scaling is how you make 20 points in GOOG, or 10 points in GS intraday -- it is absolutely necessary. By the time you get a "signal" to sell your 2000 shares of BIDU because of whatever silly technical reason, of course you will get crushed at market...

On intraday equities, win rate has nothing to do with this discussion at all. Even theoretically he is mistaken on the most fundamental basis concerning the tape. Learn to scale or fail.

Sorry, market orders are for chumps for the most part on smaller time frames. You really have proven you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, except for maybe 100 shares each way. Like everyone here is trying to point out to you, it's all relative. If you can make 5-figures...

What is current weight of financials in S&P 500?

2 points all should be aware of in deciding whether or not to continue this discussion: 1) The thread starter made his money on riding long term trends in major markets. 2) The thread starter also gave up on intraday trading because it was "a waste of time" (see other threads). Now in...

Ok, no point wasting my breath further here then -- not like it wasn't obvious but I'm a sucker like everyone else. :D

Have you ever tried to sell 3000 shares of BIDU exactly at the "top"? Or at any single price or moment in time, for that matter? The real "truth" is that adaptability is the ONLY secret to successful over the long haul (meaning multiple decades). Scaling out becomes a necessity every...

If you are referring to the 95% traders who lose money, then the question of scaling or not scaling is moot :)

Don't mind Buy1Sell2, this is a man who concluded intraday trading was a waste of time. Enough said.

Wow, this thread is still alive? A year or so later, my opinion stands as: Sometimes I sell everything at once. Sometimes I scale out slowly, especially in a thin name. Sometimes, after exiting a partial position, I will rebuy/sell and double up on the position, depending upon how the...

If you're making money, just keep trading.

Is it true that a sub-llc needs to "request" greater buying power from the parent b/d every time they raise it? Don't the sub-llc managers have that power on their own?

Who was recently promoted to "head of trading", not sure which region, at BSC? Just curious.

Anything one should know before he goes "professional"?

Not a single Black Monday thread yet -- this is truly scary!

Don't u know by now that starting a thread on ET to make a market call is the kiss of death? Please feel free to flip and go short, no loyalties here, we all would understand :)

Yes always good to clean the slate once in a while.

Anyone have a clue what's going on here?

Right, and how much money are you willing to put up to continue funding your education in learning how to trade the "hard" markets? Stocks compared to currencies (even stock index futures) are completely different animals; knowing how to trade the euro or yen properly will not prepare you...

There are thousands of stocks out there, the programs and funds can't play games with all of them. If you prefer to trade with 20:1 margin vs the smartest traders out there in a single market, then all the more power to you. But easy (or easier) money is the same color as hard money last I...