I don't think you would blink if you could rake in $5k on a half decent day.
You have so much trading "ability", you could even pull in $1k on a dead day !!!
You have a full time job in charge of 150 people in NYC. That should pay you some serious dole. Your wife is making good money...
I only use deductive reasoning. I apologize in advance if I read you wrong.
1. You have a job, you can't afford to trade full time.
2. you tried scalping for 1/4 pt in ES, without success.
3. You have to sneak behind your boss' back to trade during day time. (i.e. you can't be a big shot.)...
Lawrence:
MultiCharts' recent comparison test made your software look very slow. Do you have a response to that?
Here's their test result.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1610998
Spy has done narrations in chat rooms (ET & PT) many times, both live and as debrief. I have posted the transcripts on this thread. For those interested, you can go back to read the time stamped transcripts, along with your chart on the side as reference. If you go through them bar-by-bar...
Bear in mind today is Quad-Witching. A day on which contracts for stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures (SSF) all expire.
The market might behave erratic due to different camps jockeying for positions. Certain volume spike does not necessarily mean...