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Actually the order fragmentation makes things quite a lot fun. Since you have to deal constantly with getting rid of lots stock when you have a huge spread and no size... that can teach you a couple of things about cutting your losses that you wont really learn while trading GE getting out at...

It was quite a fun day. Started trading at 13:00. Did most of my trades on HR. scalping the spread taking from 3 to 5 cents per trade... with up to 300 shares. :D now that was fun. :D

I trying out DTN's prophet software. So far it looks good but I haven't been able to properlly program a VWAP indicator into it... guess my programming skills suck... I was wondering if anyone using DTN uses this indicator... could tell me what the command for SUM is in their system... or...

Where do you set the line between healthy, and no so healthy obsession about the markets??:confused:

I've been wondering. The point of regulating migrations to a given country, is to keep people from certain other countries from having access to the more competitive wages that are paid in that country. Ok, and the point of outsourcing is that companies want to do their production outside...

the best leading indicator for XOM is the NYMEX oil futures... since you probably wont be getting NYMEX any time soon at swift, then XLE would be my second choice. or you could get the squawk from the oil pit... but it´s pricy... {around $500 per month}

what I meant is. If you place one order on each side, like credit traders tend to do. place your first order on the side that has the longest line, and your second order a few minutes later on the other side, so that both orders can reach the market around the same time. It´s a lot easier to do...

There is hope. 60+ trades Net $38 Gross $67 :D

IE7 is filled with corporate bugs... Try FireFox 2 instead.

If you play online poker {perhaps at DBPN} you´ll be asked to submit scan images of your credit card, id and license, along with an agreement letter properlly signed. All that information is going to be kept "securely" in a file to which all the office has access, there´s plenty of...

I think that wasn't necessarily the specialist, it could´ve been one of his buddies at the floor...

Well, I´ve traded SUNW and XOM before. On SUNW what you want to look for in that stock is the range of movement and how much is the tape printing in each direction. Once you got an idea of that, see how long the line is on each side {bid/ask} and place your order first on the side that would...

Today I got killed. My excecutions where sloppy, I didnt get to feel the direction of the markets and my attention span was very low... Totally out of focus. -20 gross -22net after 10 trades. Lesson of the day, if you're not focusing on sim mode, stay on sim mode.

What symbols are you trading?

Watch out for those Amex specialists... far worse than NYSE... As for the hybrid market, I love what it does to thin stocks, now you don't send your order to pick up liquidity offered in NYSE just to watch em pull the liquidity away from you without a print...

Emancipation of Most Homosexuals?... :confused:

"or equivalent"? can you specify?

hmm... that sucks I would have liked to trade at a pit... :( I guess those days are soon to be gone.

What's 5000 miles nowadays? Nothing.

Caribean is great. Live in Costa Rica myself. There's thousands of people being employed by outsources here snd business keeps growign every day.