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Maybe we should define "religious". Does communism count as a religion? Does television count as a religion? Does atheism? The latter should be counted as a religion, since it is (no more or less than other religions) a form of faith and a way to interpret your life based on an assumption you...

Have you ever seen a union that is NOT about taking as much money away from the other guy as possible?

definately

me be mad too me not like read thread at bad engrish which purpose no other then say you be mad. no one force you read elite trader if you no like, if make you mad i you suggest no read

It doesn't matter. Each and every single point on the NQ is $20!!!

The operative words being "on their way to".

I don't think successful traders whould get margin calls. You can't be that successful if you still have to use margin to be able to afford the objectively ideal position size. Of course, it's different with futures. You don't pay interest if you hold futures "on margin", but I don't think...

I almost bought 1 share of ADSX the other day, but then I didn't do it, because the risk seemed too large for my account size.

Ok, let me clarify: There are members on ET from whom you will only learn that the human species still has a lot of evolving to do.

the people here on ET are my mentors. let's face it, most posters are not profitable, but you can learn a lot from them.

The only real advantages are the best executions anywhere (you would have to try that) and the lowest commissions. They include all ECN fees and even that funky .0000000000000000003% SEC fee on sales. But if you do size (>2000 shares per order) it's probably all the same. If you trade 100...

OK, you've convinced me. This is how you get rich: Buy anything when the 5 EMA crosses above the 20 EMA and sell when it crosses below. If everyone did this, the world would be full of mighty wealthy people.

Yes, they have configurable hotkeys and -clicks. The demo is not as good as the real thing. IB intend to deliver the best execution and the best price, they never wanted to be a charting application. However, their datafeed has recently become so good that Medved Quotetracker fully...

What does your intraday data look like? ASCII CSV?

What's wrong with IB? Fills too fast? Commissions too low?

I bet his answer to that question will be "Yes."

But it means nothing unless you apply a fast stochastics to it.

and my head is just about to explode, but I just can't find out how to report gains or losses from trading Hang Seng index futures to the IRS. I think I will try putting it on Schedule D as short term capital gains. That should be safe, shouldn't it?

And it comes recommended by your broker!

Obviously, some institution thought Wednesday's huge gain will have to be retraced before we can move on, because otherwise too many people, who have taken the week off, would be left out.