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i'm not sure what my monthly RT's are because it changes as i ramp up my size, you only need to average something like 100 RT/day to make leasing a seat profitable. my breakdown is 5/5/6 for the commissions and i have membership to lower the fees to that level.

if you are in, or close to, chicago you can shadow me for 20k / week. (and i'm actually a quite profitable trader)

9 for me, 6 years in and that is my worst. during the first 5 years -6 dvar was my worst, but then in my 6th (actually month 12 of my 6th so almost yr 7) i hit a 9 day in a row streak.

wow, for any of you complaining about the "increased volatility" ("" because i'd argue that isn't true) that hft brings to the table is breaking your strategy... uh... learn how to not suck.

just to clarify i was referring to eurodollars- a short-term fixed income instrument... if that can move that far... imagine what "equities" can do

When the time comes- statements will not be an issue at all

maximum loss is always bigger than you'd imagine- for example if you look back to ED's in i believe like sep of 09, they used to only move maybe 10-15 tics/day on the most volatile of days- and then one day GS sold 5000 strips and in one sell order they sold off 150ish tics... so even if you had...

you should never be afraid of entering a profitable trade because of the commission cost. why avoid an expected return of 10$ to save 4$? i'm a professional and have a roundtrip cost of 32 cents/contract of treasury futures and average somewhere around 1/3%/day in transaction costs.

just to follow up for all the disbelievers (who still won't believe this)- here are my stats and how i have (ab)used leverage throughout my career, all numbers given are in dvar's: yr 1 (jul 05 - jun 06) dvar = 15% month avg = .98 month var = 4.39 tot returns = 11.78 biggest dd = -4.00...

if you want mean reversion i would suggest what you got to here- butterfly's and condors... in my experience i've found the more i hedge the more mean reverting the positions are (in the short term- i never hold positions overnight i'm strictly intraday)

are all twelve of your comments in this thread? i'm as american as they come- my ancestor was actually the clergyman on the mayflower, believe it or not. you on the other hand have not, at any point, added any useful information to this forum- congratulations, you are the first person to ever...

wow you are ignorant, he used gdp_ppp ppp = purchasing power parity go become an art teacher because you don't belong on a trading forum if you are this ignorant of economics

first i'd start by, not rolling back legislation on financial institutions enacted after the great depression to prevent a further one, but levying a thousand pages of new rules... i mean they might have to hire people to figure out what the rules are at least and i'm sure this would in no way...

why should companies pay tax at all? i think it should be a 0% corporate tax rate. i mean there are several things they can do with that money: hire someone - who then pays taxes on that salary sell the company at a profit - and then pay taxes on that sale disburse a dividend - which is...

seeing all of these posts where people recognize that ron paul is the only politician i've heard of who isn't corrupt as hell gives me at least a little hope. i've already sent him some money and plan on sending him more to each of his money bombs. here is an interesting link as well for all...

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can we get to the heart of the problem... why the fuck was a superintendent making 267k/yr to begin with?

i've traded through newedge, advantage, crossland and goldman using x-trader. with all parties i had to set my "1-click" and total max working order (or max position) limits with my clearing firm.

this is exactly why i ask, my friend thought trading academy was about 5k for less than 10 hours of class. sounds like something i could do if there were several people interested, but it really would have to be a fair sum to warrant the distraction it would cause me from my trading. i...

i'm already beating these numbers- but it doesn't change my original question which basically boils down to how much they'll pay... or in other words, "is it worth my time to bother teaching anyone or should i just keep doing what i'm doing?"