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Always better to keep your cash inside your vacuum cleaner.

Trading, like in surfing - Its a good idea to avoid a crowded take off.

Learn from only the best - there are plenty of long term successful traders, including some of the market wizards, sharing their knowledge these days for free - forget about asking strangers for advice or paying some unknown for training. The smart money waits patiently for months and even...

It is not truly free - you still have to pay the FINRA-TAF & SEC fees on the sales. Their 606 report shows they route the orders to only HFT's. What you may save in commissions gets eaten up in slippage by the HFTs. Robin Hood preys on the uninformed novices that think they are getting a free...

so TS is jumping onto api bandwagon a little too late. __________________________________________________________ They have been dealing with the institutional side with quant trading going back about 4 years . Colo servers/Bloomburg feeds/FCM360 low latency network - the works. Its not new to...

tradestation and easylanguage sucks, learn a real programming language and use API's ______________________________________________________________________ TS has a web API. I am discretionary so I could care less, but here you go anyway. http://tradestation.github.io/webapi-docs/

Nearly any person with an energy level above geriatric is often diagnosed with ADHD these days. Not saying yours is not real, if you have it you will know and everyone around you will also. Here are a just a few real life symptoms from my 'observations' on true ADHD ** When stuck sitting to...

Antivirus on a trading computer - no way! Have not run an AV for maybe 5 years now. I do a daily sweep for them anyway - amazing how clean your computer stays when not down loading free crap or surfing the porn.

i see that its crap and limited in time, otherwise surely i wouldnt be dumb enough to waste 4k a month. Try 1 minute data _______________________________________________________________ 4k a month?? - you really are incredibly dumb by making things up that are not even close to reality. I...

Getting tired of people that don't know the facts yet make critical reviews anyway.TradeStation without API is not throttled at all until you go over 1,000 symbols - it is one of the best data feeds in the industry. Their API is throttled - it is mostly for developers right now and does 200...

I use TradeStation - I am streaming a zillion symbols in real-time, and dozens of market internals and have 48 years of historical data, and very sophisticated charting to trigger orders on any condition you can think of. They are known to have one of the best data feeds in the industry. That...

IB charting and their delayed data feed is way under powered for my needs. Like most IB customers that depend on a real charting solution I use another broker (TradeStation) to get tick, and historical chart data, and clean real-time market data for a zillion symbols without having to pay up for it.

I have made it day trading for a few years, - the problem was sustainability. The burn out and the inevitable prolonged sideways and narrow market conditions kills multi-year winning day traders - go extinct or adapt. So I switched to swing trading and never looked back - this is sustainable...

Reducing risk also involves increasing gains by layering into winners and minimizing trading frequency. The basic concept is when you lose it is $1 for every $2 or more you make on winning trades - do that and you can have a low win rate and still have real good years. You have to have have the...

My stops are based only on the charts - not on a defined $ or %. I size the position so that I am not risking more then 1% max on any given trade. I never look at a live profit/loss window which goes hand in hand with using a set $ stop. This keeps my own perceived pain threshold from...

Trading for a living makes a lot more sense when you have an account at least 5 times larger than what you need to live one for one year and the money you are trading with are primarily from profits already made in the market. Until that point you can keep a full time job and swing trade - like...

It seems like it has gotten easier with the 2013 'Safe Harbor' IRS tax code. I had said that my CPA advised not to try to write off my home office & expenses, that was 13 years ago when the IRS was going after people taking this deduction. So I stand corrected, the IRS has loosened up some on...

No HFTs

Its not rocket science - smart money takes shares from the dumb money during capitulation - retail buys at highs and sells at lows - smart money buys at lows and sells at highs. No secret dark pool decoder ring is needed to see that this is the case with these charts.

The fact is you would not be able to handle the huge draw downs that are inevitable with this concept which you completely ignored looking only at the gains. Even traders with multi million accounts would not have the stomach for the draw downs that are inherit with such an absurd concept of...