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Here's how a proposal like this should be written. "If you can prove profitability, I will put $100,000 into a trading account and give you authority to trade it. We split the profits 50/50 and I take all the risk. Either of us can nix the deal when we feel it's no longer to our benefit to...

You owe me $3,000 for the loss on my JNS long. PM me for the details of my paypal account.

huh? :confused: You either just contradicted yourself or said specialists aren't humans.

I've never viewed this strategy as anything other than that. Just an odds-based move from a theoretical mis-pricing. I don't know nor care if there is a specialist involved in the trade. As someone who's been trading this strategy daily for going on 6 years now, I agree that it has changed...

Fat Finger. I typed a futures price into a valuation spreadsheet that was out by 100 points, then proceeded to fire off about 2500 mispriced orders, half of which executed instantly. Down about a hundred grand in the space of 10 minutes, mostly due to IB autoliquidating me with market orders...

Trade the smallest size you can, the smallest incremental size the exchange will allow. Then when you think you're hot shit, move the size up very slowly. 9 out of 10 newbies seem to think they should just walk in and start trading 1000 shrs of a volatile stock like that's just the way it's...

Don doesn't call it losing, it's called 'getting stubborn'.

Long over 5000 IBM and down a buck and a half before I even knew what was going on. I think the $8k hit I took on him may be my all time single worst opening order trade. Luckily we had enough volatility the rest of the day to more than make up for it.

Tuco Trading. Located in La Jolla in the same building as the Hard Rock. Kick ass location and a good firm.

Licensing is not dependant on where you live. It depends on what regulatory body the firm is registered with.

So you're saying you have a 'security deposit' that you can put up? If it's at least $10,000 you shouldn't have too much trouble finding what you're looking for.

You're an experienced trader with no money to put up? Something's not adding up...

Your 10 cent stop might work ok on low volatility stocks with 200 shares on. You'll need to do some serious adjustements by the time you get up to a few thousand shares per trade. You'll get destroyed by the slippage. The way you're approaching it is right though, start small, keep good...

I'll probably be there. Anyone hosting a cocktail party or anything with free drinks post it here. Tuco Trading had a great one last year, haven't heard if they're doing it again this year.

Microsoft Excel is a pretty amazing tool once you spend some time with it. MS Access is a proper db tool, but a lot more involved to learn how to use.

It depends on how you trade and how much capital you have. If you have a big account and trade one or two positions at a time, no need for prop leverage. However you are limited in what you can do. Prop leverage does not mean just sizing up 10x on what you're doing now. It lets you trade...

I lived in Yellowknife, NWT for 8 years and I currently live in Saskatchewan, so I'm the guy to talk to about living in remote areas of Canada! Going from NYC to a squatter's cabin in the arctic wilderness would be sure death for you. Unless you previously spent time doing arctic wilderness...

I'm sure it's been pointed out here by others, but your money management plan (if you have one) is what's killing you. Losing >10% of your account on a single trade? Then do it over and over and say, 'gee I should better define my plan and figure out what I'm doing'. Refining a trading plan...

Just to clarify, dde links in my Excel 2007 files DO work. When I open the sheet, the Security Warning at the top gives the option to enable the links. I do this, and the sheet updates with data just fine. I can close and re-open the sheet and it works again. However on the second or third...

I'll give that a try, but it would be nice to see you support RTD, since DDE is old outdated technology now. RTD is where it's at, why no plans to implement it?