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Is this based on a crystal ball or is there another method behind this? I agree that all of what you say is POSSIBLE but the chance of it going below $50 is slim (and I am bearish on the world economy) and the chance of it going as low as 30 is, of course possible, but slimmer than Twiggy...

I think the rating agencies are insane giving IB a higher rating than Golman or Morgan. When are these lunatics going to aquire a nodding aquantince with the real world!! Clearly GS & MS are too big to fail. As long as the the Fed and even Treasury have the caital or ready credit (same...

Can you really interpert every stop that is hit as a valid signal to go the other way? That seems like the bullet train to ruin to me and completely insane!!

It has to be there!

I can see that in the "pure arb" end of your business real speed is essential. Thanks. Makes the comments more concrete for me.

Fair enough.

I'm curious as to how many of those contributing to this thread believe speed is a crucial part of their edge. I'm strictly a low tech directional trader (ES & CL) and would like to know if, for most in this thread, this discussion is more theoretical or more practicle.

If you look back I was never speaking of how to mitigate the risk in an IB trading account. The OP obviously thought there might be a way to use a "combines account" so he asked a question. What I thought was rediculous was your belief that anyone that started such a thread with less than a...

The question was not if 700K was a big deal or a small deal to you the question was was a guy with 700K "a little worry wort" -- your phrase.

I wish I had been dumb enough to put a huge portion of my net worth into Apple in 2009. People are often arrogant and rude but the fact remains that Apple, as a company and a stock, performed extraordinarily well for a long time. And, that performance, was not as it sometimes is based on...

Does this mean that a guy with say a $700,000 account is a "little worry wort" if he engages in a discussion about account protection?

If I didn't think a firm was smart enough to protect their own ass (CRS clearly is) I wouldn't be there. Wish a SIPC like scheme was in place for futures traders. It would costs pennies per contract. God know's the exchanges are not shy about raping retail as it now stands.

I think PA by definition assumes that there are times when the context, setup and signal bar come together in a fashion that gives you and edge. That edge might be a 40% trade that wins 4 in 10 times but pays out 2.5x your risk or a 70% trade that pays out 1x your risk. Unless you figure out...

While I am comfortable leaving larger sum with Interactive I never leave more than I must at any of the smaller brokers. I can day trade 5 lots of ES with a firm like DDT with a $5,000 balance and still have a cushion. A good small firm that has low (or even ultra-low) margin requirements is...

I know nothing about tech or system trading but it seems to me that designing a system when you don't have almost any trading experience is a very hard road to travel.

I am truly amazed by what posting a simple notification from a broker provokes.

Approximately how many trades (not shares, trades) have you done lifetime? It is an important starting point for anyone giving you advice.

Where did you relocate from -- another galaxy?

You are clearly privy to a much higher level of information than I am.

But the guy who owns the store hears multiple ideas every week from those that work for him and he makes the judgment which ones to back. He backed this idea with a boatload of real money. That's why Druk gets the asist and Soros (even if you hate his politics) gets the gold!