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Single Stock Futures (SSFs) are the only class of futures contract other than Onions to be specifically prohibited by law. On November 8th, 2002 though, all of this will change and the speculative and hedging potential of Futures contracts on individual stocks will be made available to the...

I don't want to spend too much time on this because it never really gets me anywhere, however, when I started out there were over 250 sites out there offering chatrooms "for a fee". Of those over 40 had 100 + members. Today, there are many less sites. I can only think of a handful that were...

Well....I think I can scrap together $25,001, even if I have to go collect pop cans along the side of the road for the extra $1.00. Brandon

So, how long do you think it'll be till the goons in the SEC apply PDT to SSF's? Any takers for a pool bet? B

I get a lot of people with questions on the gap trades I do. This is by far the biggest edge I have. Most of the questions are a long the lines of people are trying to figure out how to do it, but occassionally I get the cynical person who thinks im only posting winners here. Every single thing...

How do you guys think the Journal is going? Does anyone have any feedback? The biggest complaint I get in the room is that I'm not busy enough throwing out trades...but I have seen some of the rooms that are out there not literally giving 100 trades per day. I think this is purhaps ok if you are...

Sorry for this coming out so late. I had a few commitments after the close and just got back. Today was a pretty slow day. I took my gap trade early and did fine, but as the market started to grind lower the volume seemed extremely low, and this had me sitting on the sidelines until near the...

Sure, I have a responsibility to make them money. To me, that means if I know that I wont be able to make them any, then stay away. My best professional advice was given, that is not to trade. Being a daytrader hardly means you should trade every day. Also, Toni and Ivica were both there all...

No matter what I do, I can't seem to make money on Fed day..so today I decided I just would not trade at all. I have not looked at the market, but I would guess that today would not be any different then any other fed day, so I probably saved money. Brandon

The following is a discussion log about todays gap. The profit in it today was fairly small (it was at the low end of what I will generally take a trade in) but never the less the consistency of the trade is such that I can't pass it up. [08:53] <brandon> lets look at gaps in general...

I have a doctors apt to go to and a few other things to do today, so Im probably going to be calling it a day. I have had two trades today, both of them in the NQ. The started off with a small gap, my favorite way to begin any day because that is were I feel I truely have an edge above and...

I have seen lots of people talk about how much money they will make doing arbs between the SSFs and the underlying security because there are certain to be wide spreads from time to time. This is probably true, but keep a few things in mind. First, futures and cash do not trade at the same price...

I doubt these will really amount to anything though for several reasons. First, you are not going to attract futures traders to them. Why? For two reasons: 1st they already have the exact product trading at the CME in the form of S&P500, Nasdaq100 and Emini futures contracts on both. There is a...

They are set to trade on Nasdaq-LIFFE, which, the last I heard was going to start trading on Nov. 8th (this friday) Brandon

Here is the same pattern on the five minute YM. Its one of the most accurate patterns you can trade, and generally gives you between $0.80 and $1.30 for every $1 you risk. Brandon

Here is a gif of the Nasdaq first thrust trade. Brandon

The day started off fairly slow. We had a large (30 point) gap to start the day. Generally speaking large gaps will hold, however after a period of expanded volatility such as we have seen the last several days it becomes a toss up. In any event, I was pretty much prepaired for a gap and nap. My...

Are any other Realtick users having problems? I can't stay connected to save my life today. It seems like over the last several weeks realtick has had a lot of problems. Brandon

One thing I have learned in life is not to stick around where I am not welcome. Over the last hour or so I have been catching up on the discussions here on ET and the more I read the more it seems obvious it is that the most vocal members on ET resent my pressence here and would rather have it...

Several hours ago my biggest worry was that today was my first day of the Journal here on ET and already I had two mishaps. First I did not spell Journal correctly (Jounel) and one of the kind moderators kindly changed that for me, and second it would have been nice to have started with a...