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"time in the market" separates trading from investing. someone who day trades one day a week and makes 12% a year outperforms an investor who is always in the market who makes 12% a year by a long shot. this is why you "MUST".

example there is a sonet ring fiber optic loop specifically for members of the cme that office in the cme building and clearing members that have offices outside of the cme building but within the sonet ring loop. mizuho bank i know and others you will have to research is on that fiber loop...

this post should be a sticky for budding day traders as it well defines just how much information you need to take into account as you day trade. i have often posted the same exact criteria on this forum but finally someone has also posted a pretty complete guide to obstacles encountered and to...

you MUST consider time in the market also. many cta's are no longer always in the market.

amibroker eod no problem at all. love amibroker for eod... btw have over 1200 systems running

i think your right from what i get he is trading with the mo. i day traded for over two decades, and it wasn't until i learned to fade the tape that i made big money. there is NOTHING more satisfying than watching a market rip strait up and all the while you are selling into it getting...

Greg, my comments i find your comment about impulse very interesting. there are impulse moves that don't go anywhere and there are some that give good follow through. i have a framework that tells you when to scalp, buying on down moves and selling on up moves. these scalping moves will be...

It's an old saying that traders make a fortune and then lose it all in the restaurant or bar business.

yes he lost a few million down in florida with getting involved some car dealerships, accessories, manufacturing.

there are a new breed of hft i define as "vampire traders" they have even more sophisticated hardware, data acquisition, algorithms, order entry style etc. than all the high frequency traders and they are able to basically prey on hft.

in old days big sp when it was trading in the 200's - a female broker i had started making my stops a stop and reverse because i was just that bad at trading and it worked very successfully. then i started letting that influence my picks and it took me darn near 10 years to get back on track.

then buy it now and hang on it's not like it's not every going to break that high ever again. lol

one word son percentages - yes percentages is the future and don't forget it. lol

just how many people do you think have successful algorithms? i started with fortran doing weather forecasting but was too young for punch cards but i did make a many of holiday wreaths from them when my aunt would bring them home.

i worked in a trading office that shared everything but on paper for auditing purposes they had to settle up at least on paper who paid what and to whom etc. they range of companies was pretty mind boggling to say the least. the were hedge funds, commodity funds, golfing buddy's funds, other...

natural hour model - trades occurred on average every 1.3 days. only two markets the sp 500 and us 30 futures.

i think what is really frustrating for traders is they will have a method and have some success using it. then latter using that method they will lose everything, so their mind is blown trying to figure out what went wrong. this happened to me over and over again it took me many years to...

no one would need psychologist, prop rooms, better business model if they just made money trading. it's like the exchanges pushing newbs to buy options so that the account will last longer before the client blows out. prop rooms are just a way to pay for expenses so the office can survive till...

sorry but i was talking directly to the op redman not you ok i have no idea who you are. but clearly redman said he was on wifi...

first thing i see wrong is wifi i have all fiber direct att enterprise account my ip starts with 12.xx.xxx.x which means i am on the backbone. i have sfp fiber handoff to router and sfp fiber going out to my trading computer.which my algo's are running on fpga cards. this all accounts for...