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    what's better to have 5m airplane or 64 foot yacht?

    Ive been on a 82ft Nordhavn in the mediterranean( southern italy) for 1 week. Those expedition style yachts are the Hummers of the seas. Beautiful interior, very comfortable, and one tough boat... 2 thumbs up !! These days you can buy a fractional ownership too if you're only going to use it...
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    New 2018: Pictures Of Your Trading Stations

    Why would you want one 4k monitor? What are you going to do if that monitor dies on you for whatever reason? I have friends who are pro traders at hedge funds(here in Miami) and a couple of investment banks(NYC & Wash DC). NONE of them have trading desks using one large 4k TV monitors over...
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    Ninja Trader 8-Slow MinuteChart Loading with IB

    IB data is a waste of time unless your mostly looking at times frames over 30 min... Subscribe to a data provider like Kinetic, CQG, Rithmic etc...
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    I am bored of small wins. Would it be dumb to risk more to make it rich?

    It only takes one black swan event to erase a few weeks or months worth of profits. Just ask any pro portfolio mgr.......
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    This is why sim trading sux! (But what about prop?)

    To me the concept of SIM trading is just a lure by brokers to get amateur traders to open a trading account knowing full well the grand majority of them will blow up their account within a few weeks/months.. Back test with REAL historical data to prove your strategy works or face the $$...
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    ...Gartman's latest letter on why his sentiment has shifted back to bearish:

    that gut flip flops on market projections more often than a mouse changes directions when looking for cheese...
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    Need Laptop advice

    quad core intel cpu at least 2.2ghz BEFORE turbo boost technology(which a lot of intel cpu(s) have. ....with boost its around 3ghz at least At least 6gb RAM, minimum 256gb mech hard drive.... or least 256gb ssd. ** check out Eluktronics 17" laptops on Amazon, very good performance for price. I...
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    Use NinjaTrader at FXCM

    They are NT issues, especially with NT8. Do yourself a favor and dump Ninja. Multicharts and Sierra charts blow them away in terms of reliability and performance...
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    NinjaTrader 8 ATI, ATM, and NinjaScript

    I hope you are leasing Ninja at the moment. I have seen issues as have other traders using NT8. NT7 is more stable gen speaking although it doesn't take advantage of hyperthreading like NT8 does. That aside.... have you thought about hiring an experienced C# coder to convert your strategy for...
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    Do you know, who you are trading against?

    I dont really care whos on the other side as long as I can see the volume at certain price levels to tell me whether the insti guys are buying or selling, so I can plan or adjust accordingly....
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    Trumps Iranian Sanctions, what is he trying to achieve?

    Iran is NO victim. They have been and still are the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Now they are destablizing other parts of the middle east to cause more mayhem.... Even their own ppl have had enough of the regime. And some of you want to let them stay in power? Seriously....
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    TraderEX -ES e-mini-One Tick Warriors Unite-Tradovate

    as soon as I read the strategy of capturing one lowly tick (using a market order none the less)... its definitely amateur hour here... my 2 cents..
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    Anyone in Miami trade anything other than BitCoins?

    I wish I could short CME bitcoin futures(daily timeframe) with just $1000 per bitcoin. But the margin requir.. are super high, not worth it(sighs).....
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    Anyone in Miami trade anything other than BitCoins?

    Miami here too... I trade 3-7 hrs a day, all futures: ES, YM, NQ and forex futures.
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    Algorithms for sale

    I find this whole thread comical. Lets see who the first sheep is to get in line to buy this BS.
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    question about forex trading = noob here pls help

    Ignorance of the FX market is not a valid reason to call it gambling.... Forex can be profitable if you know the mechanics that move that market. Most people that jump into FX think that its just a matter of "following indicators" that will lead them down the yellow brick road to mastering...
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    When is /VX Futures goes into backwardation

    I use a mix of news services, Associated Press, Reuters, Finwiz News, Dow Jones News(u pay for it unless your broker offers it for free), Globaloilwatch.com(pay for this one also), etc. I personally use a newsreader, and use RSS feeds from those sites to keep me updated of important news...
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    When is /VX Futures goes into backwardation

    Or when certain oil workers on strike in Kuwait decide to go back to work, AND Iran decides to continue pumping no matter what..... yeah you will see futures prices and volatility values revert "back to the norm."
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    Futures platform required

    You obviously have the "free" simulation version Ninja and with some vendors it will not hold your "fake" orders on a server. If you stop being cheap and buy/lease a live version of Ninja, Multic, Sierra, XTrader, Ami, Metatrader( with CQG or ...maybe Rithmic data if they support holding orders...
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