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Well it is crazy out there...but equities are oversold short-term....and 12k on the Dow continues to hold. The market is testing for a hold or break here.... one is bullish, the other is bearish.

Yes, but as has been discussed on this board MANY TIMES in the past, Prop firms don't promote futures....at all. THERE'S NO MONEY IN IT FOR THEM....the retail rates have been driven to the ground....that's why. And they can't compete....and make money. There's big bucks in equities however...

Soon, they're will be NONE.

That's a dumb question. Everyone knows prop rates are based on volume. You doing 500,000 share-trades per day ?

Let me weigh-in here having done both prop and retail futures: 1) they have similarities when it comes to risk management (prudent use of stops) and money management (bet sizing). 2) ample and even excessive leverage is available for both (see $500 margins for some emini futures contracts...

Not true: http://mediaserver.thinkorswim.com/transcripts/Sept_13_2006_DDE_links.pdf I'll be glad to answer any questions regarding the Excel interface. It works pretty well....but you better have a fast CPU.

See recent broker reviews: low cost = LOW SERVICE. Keep your expectations low.....REAL LOW.

Surf - where've you been this past week, skiing perhaps ? Well, the downhill slopes on all major indices are sure enticing....with that psych level of 12k on the Dow almost begging to be broken. Hope all is well.

LMAO...that's great.

Simple and on=target: A kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy) (root: klepto+kratein = rule by thieves) is a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population. A kleptocratic...

Rubin's making $10k per hour. Could Charlie be jealous ?

Mike- ridiculous statement....UNLESS you are trading with a programmed system....aka "automated" system. Manual human trading can't distinquish between 3x per second vs. 10x per second.

IMHO Sam Zell's been a pretty lucky camper most of his career and I say this time he's wrong. Plus, what economics degree does he hold anyway ?

by Charlie Gasparino of CNBC (approx. 8 am EST): "yeah, Rubin's making 20 million dollars at Citicorp for doing nothing". I'm just wondering....would Rubin have grounds for suing either Gasparino or CNBC over that comment ?

Java had it's chance to shine and ....it blew it....largely because of the ever-so-slow Java Community Process. Several large Java trading platforms have been unable to use JRE 1.6 because of bugs.....and after 6 months since release ? Unexcusable....I'm sorry, even MSFT can do better than...

These comments ring true....Vista is such a "mis-hit" it's not even funny...no one really endorses it. But remember, Bill Gates has been using foreign programmers for quite some time now....and look what they've produced: Absolute sh*t. And a recent developer's rag shows that Yahoo's AJAX...

I LOVE the title of this post.....and the answer is "oh so simple", but the solution is NOT: "the USA has too many laws, too many lawyers", no de-legislators....ie we can't get rid of obsolete laws that bog down every day life. Instead of INNOVATING, we're SUFFOCATING. End of story....end of...

Exactly WHICH 8.x version did that construct get supported ? Also, can you demonstrate in 8.x how to determine after a position is closed, which exit signal was responsible for the closing trade ? (assume multiple exits were part of the strategy) Somehow in TS2000i, TS "forgot" to maintain a...

Here are some books that appear to be current regarding thread handling: http://www.amazon.com/Multithreading-Applications-Win32-Addison-Wesley-Technology/dp/0201442345/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b...

Sounds simple....but you must be great at knowing exactly WHERE to place that stop loss order. Otherwise, you will still get to that category of "massive loss"....it will just take more time, that's all. Tight stops with Index Futures practically guarantee a poor win/loss percentage.