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I don't need any visa to do the business (trade) in states? I know there is a E-2 visa for investors but it requires significant investment (100K?). 5K deposit is far from enough. trade42: thanks for your link but that thread only tells me "trader" is not on TN visa list. We have to find...

Needs H-1, TN or E-2 visa? Or any other options? THX

Some people said there is virtually no slippage at all. But when I use market order, there is always one tick slippage. If I use limit order, I have to wait the price to be touched at least 3 seconds. How liquid is the ES market after all? Is that possible to scalp mutiple, say 20 lots?

to control drawdown or go ahead to let probability work out?

Maybe I chose a wrong time to start real trading? I made 4-8 points a day continuously since early Dec on a simulator. But this week I lost 2 points till now! If market did not change, I know there is only one problem.............

Is that hard to achieve 4-8 points on ES a day? A trading school said you would be ready for real trading if you had 15 continuous winning days on paper.

ES quote suddenly jumped from 909 to 914 then back and forth for a couple of times. What is the problem?

I am using IB data feed (I have an account there) and often noticed significant delay between IB TWS last price and Sierra charts display. Today when the ES went down to 936, sierra still stuck at 942! And it even changes fewer ticks than IB's quote sometimes. What is the problem? My computer's...

I am only interested in Emini. Quotetracker is a nice software but it can't show real time indices and tick/TRIN etc (only refresh every min). And their charts are not live at all. I like the simple livechart from lycos but they don't provide realtime Emini anymore. And I also want a little bit...

I am just wondering why no broker in North America using telephone automatic order system as a kind of backup. In China all retail investors input orders simply by keyboard on their phones/cellphones. You don't need to talk to anybody and the broker only need a Pentium 2 to handle 50 phone...

I just began the transition from a vulnerable investor to a trader. Thanks in advance for all reply. Why are so many people using third party data vendor? Is IB data feed not so reliable for day trading? I am basically interested in Emini.