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you are paying way too much in commissions !!! "I think that in my case i pay around $35 per a round trip"

The dudes that 'invented' ISLD were serious hackers. Thus, the serious performance. the dudes are seriously RICH hackers .... I would think their net worth is more than most traders ....

Curious if there are some elite traders who were scalpers , arb's daytraders ... who now swing or position trade or manage a portfolio of stocks / options / futures and find their returns on equity better with risk as a percentage of capital and hours spent watching the market...

so I sometimes play the reverse open play meaning I take a position pre market and sell to specialist or buy from sprecialist on open to close position today looked easywith futures up and a wall street upgrade ... bought VZ premarket 32.40 - 32.64 sold some pre market 32.68-70...

intraday rally anyone ?

hope I did not miss the rally !!! whew .... lets see nas100 down to 800 at 11:15 am EST nahhhhhh ...

sorry I see you want online ... chicago might still have some firms that can steer you in that direction but my post was about floor trading ...

knock on some doors ... thats if you want to become a local and trade on the floor

press release today lists Nov 8 as launch date for the NQLX SSF's looks like One Chicago will have a 2 week head start as they are supposed to start OCT 25 if all goes well :cool:

YM = 500 DIA

I am able to connect in one of my accts fine the other one disconnected and cannot log back in :eek:

for me with IB this am in USA last week there was a problem but it was ISP's fault not IB as worldcoms UUNET backbone $%*@ up

spoos settled a bit above fair value in last 15 minutes of trade friday they ripped 5-6 handles up so for now ... :confused: :confused: :confused:

to rally the spoosies early on in european trading before slamming them again before we open but being that the spoos rallied 5-6 handles late friday after the stock market closed and with the uncertainty of the weekends news its not surprising to see spoos under some pressure spoos...

should really start a cartoon financial show on nickalodeon or disney with his characters. "hoofy " "boo" etc to compete with CNBC and CNNFN .... I would rather watch it than most of the characters on those shows ...

this week "Martha Stewart, dogged by questions about her role in the ImClone Systems Inc. insider trading scandal, has resigned from the New York Stock Exchange board of directors"

cheap enough at IB to use " bullet style " strategies? I mean they only charge $1 per option contract and $1 per hundred shares is isnt it only $3 to buy 1 put , 1 call and 100 shares of stock?

"scale in using QQQ's or QQQ options As 1 NQ = 800 shares or 8 options so scale in maybe 200 at time ?" example from friday ... QQQ's trading at 20.25 you buy 200 when they reach 20.50 you sell them

are highly leveraged ... perhaps you can try an experiment instead of buying or selling 1 NQ at your price either wait for the NQ to go 3-5 points against that price then place order ... thus allowing you 3-5 more points slippage ! OR scale in using QQQ's or QQQ options...

that was not the yrly high for $trin I believe it was made in late july anyway ... thanks for posting on elite trader