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Bright requires Series 7 even though no contact with clients and you're trading your own capital. Definitely great leverage, though, (to get yourself in trouble with) :D

I'm tired of seeing these trends late in the day (when they've hit the hi/lo ticker 100 times) and fading them for a small move. I want to catch that TREND when it starts, so I've been studying swing setups on the daily charts. I attached a chart of IBM, one of the stocks I've been studying...

Hog, thank you much for the link to Linda's article! D&S, I don't use the DOM for anything except ease of order entry. I see order size games played there (and on L2) all the time. For stocks, I use my L2 in Etrade to detect hidden orders refreshing, but I depend on Time&Sales for the real...

So you were front-running me for a coveted Mike Stern position?? :p We were there same time, sent you a PM.

Very cool! I was on a waiting list to study with Mike Stern, but graduated Berklee and moved to Tucson before I had the chance. I'm working on some music I'm gonna record and post on YouTube. I'll post the link here...

If you have trouble moderating stress, how different will it be from your regular job? If you have a very large monetary cushion to fall back on, then I imagine it wouldn't be a problem. I don't have that luxury. I just finished my first year trading, and it taught me to moderate stress...

Absolutely. The vast majority of Americans have been brainwashed since infancy to crave the processed, refined nutritional void we call "food". "Where do you get your protein?" people always ask me when they find out I'm a pure vegetarian. "Did you know broccoli has almost 50% more...

Cow's milk and its products (cheese, yogurt, ice cream) are known and incredibly strong carcinogens, rGBH or not. Read "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell, professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. As a cancer survivor, this was the most powerful and influential book...

I had no idea what to expect when the order didn't fill right away. That was my first and only experience of absolute fear while trading. If you could've faded that high, it would've been great, but how would you even know where to fade?

QT, I've had a lot of trouble with that too, and have missed some fantastic breakout moves because I would see a technical footprint indicating further upside, but my opinion of price appearing to be "too high" clouded my judgment and caused me to avoid putting on the trade. I believe this is...

I traded V on the open of its IPO. Retail traders trading that day did not get the 44.00 price. It opened @ 59.50, hit a high of 69.00 and a low of 55.00. I had only started trading 3 weeks prior to this and had done 3 very short term swing trades. I knew nothing about trading. I placed a...

Wait a minute, need to clear up some confusion. I was born not far from Scranton, and I studied guitar with Pat Martino in Philly, but I've always been an avid Steelers fan (I think that's where Pittsburgh comes in) :D

Once there was a pivot off the low today, I followed each move to the long side, so despite the action being somewhat restricted, I did follow what there was of the trend from the first higher low, exiting after each run to "overbought", then reentering to the long side as long as the next pivot...

A kind gentleman on ET, Redneck Trader, recently used the word "tenacious" when describing me, but I imagine this is what he really meant. :D

+$94 Day +$697 Week +$2561 Month Only a few small stock trades while I paper traded ES, this time off IB's DOM, so I had real action and numbers to work off of: +10.5 pts, all long trades Have a great weekend all!

+$94 Day +$697 Week +$2561 Month This is not bad considering all month I’ve traded ¼ - ½ my previous size and I blew about $800 with order errors. I’m very satisfied with my trade management and discipline this month, but still disappointed that I don’t take all my setups. I think...

Hog, so glad to hear you are well! (Read "The China Study" if you haven't already :cool: ) I attached the chart and DOM for ES that IB provides. Looks great to me and since I seem to be too ADD to learn TT Trader, I think I will just use IB.

I watched a live trading webinar with Greg Capra and he was buying and selling right off the chart. Not sure what platform allows that, but I too am very visual and I'm always watching my chart, L2 and Time&Sales in Etrade while preparing to place the order in IB. I get a "picture" of footprints...

No, done paper trading. It was a great success. Only the real thing will tell. Last June I paper traded stocks on a day trading basis and then the first 3 weeks I actually day traded I made a fantastic profits. Then my lack of risk management caught up to me. I believe I have that under...

High/low ticker streams stocks hitting highs or lows on the day and shows the number of highs/lows hit each time a new high/low is made. My PowerEtradePro includes it, and I think TradeIdeas includes one. So when I see, for example, LM, on the high ticker and the number of new highs starts...