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Nick - I am not an attorney, nor work for the CFTC. From one person's point of view, this could very well fall under the CFTC. Here's how I would view this type of setup - if you were a for hire trader that charged a fee and/or % of profits, you may need to register with the CFTC (usually...

Oh yeah - the CFTC is looking at these much closer now. Your statement is flat out wrong. There may not be 'official' statements right now, but they are looking at them.

I agree dan - on shorter timeframes, it causes more confusion than help.

frosty - I am a first time poster in your thread, but I have to agree with these other posters - that is WAY too much on your chart. I think you will suffer from 'paralysis by analysis'. In other words, what are the chances that all of your indicators at the same time give you a signal? If...

zoo - when you charge someone a fee based on whether or not you are profitable, that very easily could fall under the CFTC umbrealla. That was my point. In addition, trying to bill like this and manage the admin (behind the scenes) could be rather difficult.

Ben - how did Mon and Tue of this week do? Are we allowed to ask questions here? They seem to be ignored.

Fader - I would disagree. There are plenty of people out there that either 1) do not want to do anything with investing/trading or 2) not willing to take the time to learn. Therefore, people will always rely on another person (even if just over the phone) to tell them what to do. I know this is...

I can speak from experience - ex-broker to full-time trader - snoop has it right. As a broker your job is to SELL. There is NO real analysis done (don't even mention technical analysis). Your job is to find someone that has $ and not sure what to do with it. Your job is to find someone not happy...

I think it would be too difficult on the admin side to do this. I understand the question, but too much work behind the scenes, if at all possible. With the CFTC rules/reg's not sure you could even do that.

I would suggest looking at the YM or ES for something a little less rough and jumpy. The ER2 is the most volatile in my opinion and very easy for stops to be taken out. It may just be the market you are trading in. Have you traded in the ES and/or YM?

Great thread, thanks guys!

Ben - would you say the recent amount of stop losses are typical and to be expected? It's hard to tell on some of them as the $ amounts are not listed, but at first glance it looks like there has been some good losses here. Just curious if you are happy with the performance and if someone...

My advice - stay way from bigtrends.com. I bought their 'premium' package and got a whole bunch of junk. Price Headley and his team talk a good game and they need to, but their analysis is terrible. STAY AWAY FROM WWW.BIGTRENDS.COM ! ! !

Wow, a nice little thread here on ET, who would have thought? Thanks for the comments guys, keep them coming.

Pabst - that is a great suggestion and one that I have struggled with to be honest. For me, in order to scale in, (example going long) I would keep buying at higher prices. I do not believe in averaging down. Knowing that, would you still scale in? And if so, in what intervals? Every tick, every...

Not too often. Sometimes a trailing stop will be taken out and then I reenter shortly there after.

Pabst - not a scalper, mainly intra-day. Willing to hold for as long as the signal stays valid. Basically, try to capture the larger moves and probably shaken out of the choppy movements.

Quote from Pabst What value does a quarter mil have to you? All you got? OPM? A drop in the bucket? The fruits of a re-fi? Also what kind of returns are you looking for? What's your trading style? In an information vacuum your original question about size is unanswerable. Pabst - good...

Hypothetically, if you were trading a $250,000 account in the e-mini indexes, EC, and QM how many contracts would you be willing to put at risk each trade?

Surdo - I guess if that kind of customer service is acceptable to you, then TS is great for charting and execution. But, when trading in blocks of 20, 30, 40, 50+ contracts at a time, I like to know that I can reach a human being on short notice. Also, recently found out that TS has been...