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When the trading gets tough, the tough get trading :cool:

Thanks! If other people would want to actually simply contribute to this in the same way, it wouldn't even need to be closed. It seems a bit harder to find these "advice to newbie" threads than I had thought it would be.

I think I see Waldo behind one of those bitches

Here's a few threads of various themes on getting started: Any advice for a beginner short term trader? critique my strategy New Trader tired of breaking even - Help! Figuring out e-minis Best stock to watch to learn to daytrade? Can you place orders before the market opens...

This thread is meant to assemble the advice from Elite Traders in response to the many new traders who have posted threads asking for advice on getting started. Hopefully new traders may be able to look through here and find some answers to the questions that might be on their minds, without...

Great! Thank you. It was your Gems series that kind of gave me the idea :)

There are cancel fees for stocks, but they are smaller than the cancel fees for options. Take a look: What are these IB fees?

Well I suggest where to begin would be go to www.nqlx.com and www.onechicago.com and look through their lists of which stocks have SSF's. See which of them you may already be trading. Start adding SSF stocks to your trading pages, watch them move. I do like to have the underlying stock on my...

I sold my contract of QLGC and MXIM just before close on monday, nearly back to what I paid for them last week. But of course, I should have held on, I'd be up now. p.s. how are you doing with your onion soup? I can't get past the croutons and melted cheese to figure out all your technical...

He was "cool" in the sense of not displaying emotion, and he knew how to maintain a public behavior of seeming decorum. In my opinion however, ET is better without him.

The casinos are well aware of the concerns about collusion, and one like Paradise Poker you can see what safeguards they have taken against any suspicions about this sort of activity. At Paradise Poker, you can choose your table on a variety of factors: you can click on the table list to...

Imagine playing Holdem online and finding you're being beaten by a 7 year old :p At least in online casinos, there are worse sucker games than Caribbean Stud. Of course, a lot depends on which online casino, as some of them are decent and some of them are rip-offs. hint: check out the...

As a beginner, the video-poker was pretty good training to me I think in which cards to hold or discard. Now when I play with human players, I might hold a King and a pair of fours, thanks to my training on Jacks-Or-Better. Also, to explain the popularity, when you can play 4-line, so you...

If you see a better price on another exchange, you can switch your order, the execution at the better price will re-imburse the fee from the cancel/modify. It's only when people make more cancels than executions that it becomes a problem. 3 trades a minute isn't a huge volume, but the...

The SSF will match the underlying ETFs. The DIA SSF will match the DIA, the QQQ SSF will match the QQQ. Just a few cents wider spread. The added leverage of the SSF will keep you from being wiped out as quickly, if for instance you trade a SSF using 1:1 or 2:1 leverage in relation to your...

If you're successful and happy trading options, then by all means continue to trade them. If you see options as not a daytrading instrument, then PDT shouldn't be a concern. Similarly, I feel that if you view options in this manner, order-cancellation fees shouldn't be much of a concern...

If you simply must continue trading options, and if you can't adapt your style to eliminate order cancellations/modifications to be less than 50%, then you'll need to change to another options broker where the exchanges' cancellation fees are already incorporated into the commission, so they...

Because I have discussed to exhaustion the extreme illogic of the Daytrading Margin rules being applied to the Non-margined long options, for one thing. With SSF, although you're allowed 5:1 margin, you do not have to use full leverage. If you trade unleveraged, or with smaller leverage (such...

Right. Get the S.E.C. off your back by quitting the stocks and stock options game, move on over to SSF and other futures. Every time you make a trade (and you can make as many as you want according to nothing but how much money is in your account) you can say "Screw you S.E.C.!" right out loud...