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From my personal experience, after comparing intraday high to low and ATR on 50+ of the most liquid stocks over 2 months, it showed an average difference of just under 5%, higher during earnings season and dropping back down in "business as usual" periods. Either way, ATR should be good...

Just a different perspective but we have done OK with our two investment properties. The first is a house we bought in suburban Atlanta with the proceeds from selling one in the Orlando area that was 60% less sq.ft. back in 2005. We were figuring that Orlando had much more downside AND we...

Oh yeah, milktruck, what is a BK HOA? Thanks

Thanks for the post and yeah, the condo association fees are something I had been looking into as some are kicking out bowel wrenching special assessments to cover for the 50% or more that are not paying it anymore. If you live(d) on Lake Eola, you would know the Waverly, which are the ones...

This is assuming that we accept lying as a fundamental principle of morality, which if you also follow with Kant’s definition of enlightenment, which is basically saying to think for ourselves, then we are at liberty to decide that lying might be ok in certain situations. If our volition is...

The Orlando area has some good deals right now with condos in good areas going for as low as $30k that once sold for $200k+. Last week, an REO 1/1 condo listed for $26k and i put in an offer for $35,600 and got outbid as the second best. There are also some nice ones in downtown Orlando that...

Thanks a lot for all of the responses, will check them out. As I am already familiar with Ninja and like their order entry screens, am hoping they come out with their 7 soon so that I can check it out. As with the equally robust NeoTicker, I can use IB as my data feed. CQG looks better than...

I am wondering if there is any good realtime charting software that will plot the spread of two instruments as if they were a single entity as well as give you the option to change the ratio between the two so as to keep the spread as close to zero as possible (for obvious reasons)? I have...

If any aspect of your trading involves your discretion, meditation is great in keeping a clear view of the objective reality of what is happening in the here and now. You have to know that emotions, predominantly greed and fear, are the primary saboteurs of any good, non-automated trading plan...

This is a pretty good article regarding mark-to-market election, where you don't pay self-employment, not limited to the additional $3000 capital gain loss, get to write off a bunch of expenses, overall easier for form filing IMO. The only problem with this is that you will not have the tax...

Even though the hours force a somewhat vampiric lifestyle if trading U.S.equities, there is still nowhere I would rather be than Bangkok, Thailand. Right now, it opens at 8:30 p.m. and closes at 3 a.m. but in the lunch break, here from 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., you can wander the busy streets, grab...

As UNG only holds the near month NG futures contract, rolling over every month, the problem still lies in the contango it is in with January's contract of NG trading at around $5.25 compared with $3.30 right now. With that, NG's spot has to go to $5.25 by January for you to break even on UNG...

I have had the good luck of being able to listen in on one of her "webinars" and i definitely got a lot out of it. It gave me a new awareness of what was going on in my mind and how that would inevitably affect my end of day P&L. Depending on how much you're trading, just one missed trade or...

One of the journal threads on pairtrading uses this site to get into its pairs, http://www.pairtradefinder.com/ otherwise, this one is also pretty good, http://www.csidata.com/ though the free one already listed looks great :)

I am with Papa Roach on this one. If you are natty bullish, buy the stocks most levered to it. With the prices of the futures today, NG will have to go up more than 60% by January for you to break even on UNG. by comparison, USO is contangoed less than 10%. good luck, either way

Oh, and you may get more responses if you list your thread under the PROP FIRM forum.

Ohhhhhhhh...ok then, I think there are quite a few offices in South Florida as I have a buddy that used to trade futures in Palm Beach at an affiliate/subsidiary of Iowa Grain (based in Chicago). Beyond that, I am sure you have seen this one, but just in case you haven't, it might help...

If you are already consistently profitable, then IMO, it is best to go with one of the firms that give you 100% of your profits, though they may take a bit more in commissions. Of course, this depends on your trading style, like if you are scalping for pennies, a million shares per day, these...

If by "experienced trader," you are referring to someone with a good chunk of their own capital that prefers to keep 100% of their profits, then I believe Bright has an office with at least a few traders in South Florida somewhere. If you are looking for a more traditional prop where you...

As far as I understand the current contango dilemna with UNG, the near month NG contract is about $3.40 with spot at about $3.30 with January of 2010's contract increasing to something like $5.50. As UNG owns the near month NG contracts, rolling them over each month, the spot price of natural...