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Next time wire the money from your back directly to your broker. If done by your bank's cutoff, should show up in 1-2 business days in your account, if not sooner.

You need triple digit returns in order to qualify for trading OPM? Is that's so, it's time to shut down every mutual fund, hedge fund, private managers, etc out there. Some may hit a home run now and again, but no trader is regularly making triple digit returns on a sizable amount of money. I'm...

Q: Will FXMarketSpace be available to retail investors? A: FXMarketSpace will be an institutional trading platform, not open to "retail" participants. In general, market participants would have to meet the FSA definition of a "Market Counterparty". Individuals would have to be sophisticated...

Tom, Well, either your post is a joke or you seriously need to study the basics before jumping in to the deep end... First, you need to educate yourself. Spend time at www.cme.com and www.cbot.com. Answers to your questions below... I'd like to start trading the e-mini dow with about...

It's not an index, but the EC (euro fx) is a liquid fx contract that trades on the CME so you don't need a separate account for fx, you can trade it from your futures account.

I guess the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder... I see a great looking blonde in incredible shape (but not overdoing it) and a nice chest as well... There's some motivation for the gym if there ever was some...

I personally found no use in any form of squawk box. If anything, I found it distracting.

You are right Nitro. I guess the male ego's on this board will not allow one to sit by...

Ummmm.... ok. I guess by that logic you need to find a life as well or else your post in this thread never happens. :cool:

Hence the reason for the disclaimers.

There's disclaimers when you want to trade/invest in anything. When I was a stockbroker I gave people a 'mini' book full of disclaimers. Even if they just wanted to buy stock once. Or one mutual fund. That's common whether it's futures, stocks, options, etc. The reason those are necessary...

Thanks guys!!

I would suggest ProActive Futures, Mirus Futures, or OpenEcry. If you contact PA or Mirus, ask for a T4 demo - very nice software!

Interesting ideas, thanks for sharing!

I don't know how to get around the $25k for stocks, but you could consider futures where account starting balances are $5k or under at some firms.

I have some IRA funds that I am not quite sure where they are going to end up, but need to park them for the time being. Any suggestions where fees aren't going to be excessive for cash sitting in an IRA? Maybe even something that pays some interest would be great too. Thanks!

Wait... your name has the word 'trade' in it, so I think YOU are the one that works for TradeStation and you are simply providing some exposure here on the forum. And you also have 'margin' in your name which means you work for TradeStation in their Margin department. Pretty slick there...

Are you implying that you have never had a losing trade hypo? If so and trading with real money, that's quite a feat!

How a trader calculates their risk to reward is different to each of us. For me, I have a clearly defined entry and stop at each trade. Therefore I know going into the trade what my risk is. From that, I can caculate my risk to reward based on the expected profit from the trade. For example -...

Bare minimum: 1 to 1 Acceptable: 1 to (1.1 - 2.0) Great: 1 to 2.1+