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    anyone trade pre market or post market ?

    I am curious ... if you would like to comment on todays INTC action before the open ? or any other stock that you can think of ... seems the M'M's really try hard to squeeze the cojones out of anyone who does not trade at proper levels of support or resistance
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    The time has come ...

    is to keep the size down ! if you get mad at the market .... tear up a $20 bill instead of tearing up your acct ... good luck ... ps ... I suffer from the problem of sometimes trading bigger than my pants size and usually the market whips me when that happens ... good luck...
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    big drawdown ...

    well I guess its back to baby steps and grinding out winners ... in the last week I have been too stubborn and too big at times in my positions ... have lost a few grand ... hopefully will be able to find myself again and get back to my high water mark of 2002 ... before drowning...
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    IB short Inventory

    "Shorted SPY just fine but wanted DIA as well." YM dec contract = 500 DIA ... can short anytime more risky though than equities .... as margins are lower
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    Pattern Day Trade Rules

    sorry but I am as curious a s the next guy and think we will find out next friday the 25th when One chicago rolls out their SSF's then in early Nov ( the 8th) when NQLX rolls out their SSF's we will be able to see what their numbers looks like as far as liquidity , spreads etc
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    SPY 3:15pm??

    :confused:
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    Are there any chat rooms that trade futures that could help a new trader???

    might still offer a paid chat room .... thats free the 1st trading day of each month
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    Don's Openings, Part 5

    mr lescor I usually am profitable with my premarket trading as I am doing arb .... but sometimes when news hits ... its hard to judge the extremes that stocks will swing ( gappers)
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    Don's Openings, Part 5

    what envelope they were using on IBM friday ? or how they tried to play it pre market / post market? I did not think it would gap so high and got caught short pre market with it ... turned a winning week into a losing week for me :mad:
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    Books, Books, Books

    have heard some good things about it will be looking to buy it this month was curious if anyone else has read it who is an "elite trader" :)
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    Why Johnny cant trade..........

    when I do things like not hedging my shorts properly not covering my losses quickly, and having too many positions at once and not admitting my losses adding up thats how I turned an plus 5 % week into a minus 1 % week in 24 hrs between thursdays close and fridays close. :mad:
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    IB commissions lower than prop firms!! WHY???

    IB offers e mini futures and will be offering SSF's at rock bottom cost leverage of course is a 2 edged sword but I would guess this is even better than 10:1 Prop
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    Trading with Market Profile

    what software offers realtime market profile info ? Aspen Graphics? E signal ?
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    IB commissions lower than prop firms!! WHY???

    I have been a customer of IB for 3-4 years .... and am still overall amazed at the deal "scrubs" like me can get from them compared to other firms.
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    IB commissions lower than prop firms!! WHY???

    I resent the following remark hope you are a gentleman usually in real life. " ... why prop firms charge more than the retail scrubs at IB pay" I am a prof trader and choose IB for now. If IB were for scrubs ... they would go out of business ...
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    overnight futures up / GE down

    maybe Merrill is covering shorts in GE !?! :confused:
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    overnight futures up / GE down

    will be interesting to see if this stays this way my guess is futures lower later in day ... of course if Merrill is done selling GE ....
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    SSFs

    be putting put a press release then on it before the launch date meanwhile One Chicago is set to launch "narrow based indices" along with SSF's later this month
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    SSFs

    brandon "In addition to the various futures contracts on single stocks, the NQLX will have exclusive listing rights on the QQQ and SPY, which should be trading on opening day. " perhaps you are mistaken? I went to a bloomberg / NQLX seminar last month and they did not mention nor...
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    Dow 5000 Nasdaq 800

    if we go that low they better change the name of those SSF's to SDF's single stock futures single digit futures :eek:
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