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While taking a loan is a risky proposition to fund your trading, try www.prosper.com A friend of mine recently applied for a 'business loan' where 25% of the proceeds was to go to equipment upgrades and some of the remaining to fund the trading account. He got $25k. Granted, it came in over...

Try using a program like SnagIt for quick and easy screenshots with easy anotation. http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp That program is a time saver. I use it all the time.

Contact: ProActive Futures Mirus Futures Open ECry All are competitive on retail commissions and good people behind the operation.

Posting charts with annotations will help a lot.

Good point Neet. Not sure how the math works here... kind of fuzzy to say the least. On the 2-14-07 MaxSpan, assuming 2/3 are taken off at +10, here's my math: Long 12727 2/3 out at +10 1/3 out at ++47 Assuming 6 contracts, which is what the website states, that means: (2/3) x 6 = 4...

Many of the charting packages have free trials. http://www.esignal.com/esignal/specials/default.asp#30day https://www.tradestation.com/newaccount/preaccount.aspx By the way, you get what you pay for.

All bets are off during econ news plays. I had a trade on the EC recently where my exit was a MIT order and I got 6 ticks less than where the MIT was at. During econ news and big swings, it appears that price levels are blasted thru but there's no guarantee of fills. And it works both...

I doubt they are reporting 'fake' losses of 90%. Usually vendors do the opposite - show big wins and ignore the losses. Assuming your info is correct, good to them for sharing all the numbers; however, 90% is not exactly a great %.

As others have said, the NQ provides nice intraday 'micro' moves vs. the ES. I would agree with the guys that said the ES is more choppy and being arbed/faded/etc to death. Not to start another debate on this subject, but to me, it feels like there is TOO MUCH volume on the ES. There's too many...

I would go at least once. Just be prepared for sales pitch after sales pitch. Keep the credit card at home! :D

By all means, somebody has to deposit the funds into my account at the end of the day. :D PS - adding the correct lettering does not help that crazy ass sentence. Try reading what you wrote out loud.

After a similar experience myself, I now use the auto-archive feature. Just make sure to archive them to an external hard drive.

Copernicus - just curious, where did you get that info?

I am INCREDIBLE at hindsight trading. I mean, the bomb. :cool:

Thanks guys. The current chip will remain as is. :D

Since I am going to be replacing my 'catch all' laptop soon, I started thinking about the processor in my current trading laptop. The laptop runs beautifully with a Pentium 4 and 2 gig of RAM. My question is - is it easy to take out the current processor and put a new one in? Or am I just...

As the other posters have stated, trading futures have many advantages over stocks. In addition to everything listed here, I really enjoy the fact that I only need to watch 3-4 charts per day of the same thing every day. At first glance that may seem boring, but a good part of trading is knowing...

loufah - I was getting this, if not more, BEFORE moving to webmail. The difference is that webmail blocks them so I don't even see them show up in my Outlook. Prior to moving, I was getting these emails delivered into my Outlook and not only was it a waste of time deleting all of them, one...

Once again Austin simply shares some info and the haters came out hard. Until they were proven wrong (again) that is. I really don't know why Austin hangs around here. He constantly takes a beating from posters - I guess b/c he's a vendor of trading info - and he handles it with...

Interesting comment since just about every futures trader on ET is 'retail'.