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JR - do you play the brackets every Wed? How do you decide where to place the brackets? If you don't want to disclose, that is fine too. Just wondering how traders play the news.

+375 on the QM today.

Hey, what do you know? I was right: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2605675

Just curious if anyone here trades the QM during inventory reports. Right now, I am a spectator during this time. Some days it looks like a bracket trade is brilliant and other days you could have easily gotten destroyed both ways on the bracket. Anyone here trading the QM on Wed from 10:20am...

I'd lean towards Romo coach. But, I am a Browns fan, so what do I know???? :confused:

As we prepare for the FOMC announcement today, I put a few things on Ebay from Investools. Feel free to ask me any questions! http://tinyurl.com/ybu4e4

+75 on the EC today.

http://mam.econoday.com

Eagle - guess it depends on what you mean by full service, but they are there: Merrill Lynch Wachovia Solomon Smith Barney Morgan Stanley AG Edwards Edward Jones Amerprise And you have the 'independent' firms - LPL, Raymond James to name a couple. As for advertising, most of these...

cash - you need to relax bro!! There's good suggestions here - put on smaller positions, stop daytrading and go find some women. The market isn't going anywhere, and trust me on this one - when you are trading by yourself or even with a couple guys, you are going to miss seeing those 18 yr girls...

Well, if that show sucks, this one sounds nice: http://www.inhd.com/product.jsp?prodId=30511&mp=co4

Cash - you are not going to become a trader at these firms if you start as a broker. Once you are a salesman there, they will always see you as a salesman. At least in my experience. Plus, to my knowledge, very few firms actually 'trade'. They have guys that place the trades of their clients...

Cash - in my position it was 100% commission based, so your pay was up to you. There were guys in my training class barely making enough to pay bills and others that were 22 making $10k+ per month regularly. There is no 'average' that is for sure. It's all sales, so if you can sell, you can make...

Great points from dac! I was a broker straight out of college as well - there for 4.5 years - and now a trader. Starting as a broker is not a bad gig at all, just understand what you are getting into.

On a non-trading computer, I have a Sony Vaio Desktop that handles my junk stuff. For whatever reason, Sony set this up with 2 hard drives (C and D). C is the main one and they allocated a whole 14 gig to it and there's over 120 gig on drive D. The problem I have is this - my C drive is full...

Let's see -- one central place for trading and quotes, brokers not trading against you, more transparency -- I would not call the 'hassles' doing 'nothing for anyone'. Look at your example - had this trade been on the ES it either would have tripped your stop or not. And all you would have...

And this is exactly why I don't trade spot fx. You'll never have this problem in futures. There are not multiple quote providers, bucket shops, etc.

cash - my suggestion is that when you place an order out there (I use buy stop limits) you have to assume the order will get filled. If not, why bother placing the trade to begin with? If you are saying to yourself - I'll put this out there but it probably won't even fill - then don't place the...

Magna - I don't trade stocks, but I think that is a great policy here. There are way too many newbies on here that would see a penny stock promoted and bet the farm on it b/c they can own thousands of shares. Just my 2 cents. :D

Hey cash - if nothing else, remember this quote "Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards". Very true in trading and it looks like this was an important lesson to help you go forwards even if temporarily going backwards.