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if you cannot day trade SPY successfully then you will not be able to daytrade e minis ( i.e. ES ) have you ever tried 100-200 share trading of SPY intraday ? this is a way to trade using real money the ETF that tracks the e mini ES using less leverage and lets you lose less if you have...

www.tradearca.com/marketdata/book_info.asp while you are waiting for IB to fix your problem

the date of that article was aug 16 around the recent panic bottom when the VIX was in the mid to upper 30's :cool:

only 2 % this week for me :)

an "erroneous trade" whether it be stocks futures options etc needs to be reported ASAP to your broker so they can argue on your behalf with the exchange or ECN that the trade is erroneous and should be "busted or adjusted"

glad things have changed ... (?) in the old days at some firms that are no longer around active trading was encouraged :p

silver just got hit today hard looks like an attempt to hit stops below $11.50

in case nobody has noticed this week oil and gas stopped moving up :)

infrequently ? ( i.e. "bradley young" profiled as a top gun in the UK in sept 07 issue of TRADER Monthly ) seems like he can work a few hours a day a few days a week with his firm why do I ask this ... today had a nice late afternoon rally in the stock index futures and I assume...

perhaps I am a bit naive here as I am no legal eagle but does not Citadel run some risk getting involved with Sentinel "legally speaking "

here we go again hi sir have you ever traded stock index futures before ? what makes you think you can start out now in this extremely volatile time frame we are in and trade multiple contracts and average down a few times ? have you ever traded ETF's based on the above futures ...

yikes ... its going to be a bad august I guess for many HF and CTA's caught in this stuff the wrong way www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a1fLf83j_S.Y&refer=home

thought I would share this quote I read today on bloomberg wires -Bills right now are trading like dot-coms.- :eek:

did not do much different ... and have since then made back 1/2 of the earlier loss today but the problem is the people who gave me the nightmare know my positions just kidding ... but seriously ... the market makers whom I call the dark side ... do from time to time try to give other...

wanted to tell the ET community about something I had I guess a bad night of sleep and had some nightmare or something that woke me up a bit earlier than I might have wanted to wake up decided to trade a little and lost close to 2K while I do not feel sorry for myself after having...

question ... for the boys do you count open positions marked to market as part of your P+L posted on ET or only closed positions ?

hmmm ... you almost had that 10 % correction but seems like when europe opened friday around 3 am est the was a flight back into the carry trade and after the FED announcement some more volatility

huh ... neke ... you do this trading in such size and do not follow the market all the time ( i.e. have another job during market hours )? sorry ... that is not the way I would be trading but good luck to you stay cautious ... remember you are not going to be a failure if you only...

I read today Cramer saying we now go to dow 14,500 ?? sorry ... does not compute in my mind esp if he thinks this target is reached by the end of the yr

correct me if I am wrong but this kind of trading is done for the most part by traders using automated strategies on the open for dozens or hundreds of stocks that route their orders to the specialist on the NYSE for the opening print , hoping he puts the "print" far enough "out there"...