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    Look At Those Fat Premiums...

    Do you have a plan for hedging? I'm assuming you mean you shorted 2x on the put side.. if something messed up happens/had happened were you just going to eat the loss?
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    S&P Downgrade Timing

    If there is a downgrade of US credit what time is it likely to be announced at? Pre/post or during market hours?
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    Dgit

    What "really" happened to DGIT at 3pm this afternoon?
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    tradestation

    If I create a Futures brokerage account with Tradestation does that let me run backtests on stocks/stock options? Or do they restrict your historical data access to whatever account type you have setup? Thanks in advance!
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    News - Enough of an Edge?

    No I wouldn't use a technical strategy I am interested in trading just based off of the news but in a short term timeframe (eg not long term fundamental analysis).
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    News - Enough of an Edge?

    Is there anyone out there who makes a living trading based on news alone? Is having a good source of news, getting it fast enough, and learning to interpret it enough to constitute an edge?
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    Futures spreads/Pair trading

    that's only funny if the URL doesnt give it away
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    Futures spreads/Pair trading

    What charting/execution software do you use to trade futures spreads?
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    Newbie question

    thanks for your replies, i'm using interactive brokers and i sent it to SMART. it wasnt premarket...it was probably around 10:30 am EST.
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    Newbie question

    i figured doing 100 shares would avoid this problem...but does anyone know what actually happened? i was surprised i could get a fill so far away from the market
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    Newbie question

    Today I submitted an order to buy 1 share of VWO at market when it was 58.05. My fill came back a few seconds later at 59.05 but the price was still 58.05... is this some kind of penalty for submitting so few shares?
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    first experiences

    Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for quite some time and I've just recently started trading myself (less than 1 month ago). I thought I would make a post about my experiences and where I'm coming from, just in case anyone has any advice or my experience matches with anyone else's. So...
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    Es - $1.90 Rt??

    Thanks for your responses. He definitely doesn't use eurex and only trades the ES at CME. Any other theories?
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    Es - $1.90 Rt??

    Hi, I was talking to someone earlier today who said he was getting $1.90 RT (yes, RT, not per side) commissions on trading the ES. I'm not sure how he is doing that since he is a very low volume retail trader and moreover he is really a penny pincher (so if it's anything involving paying a...
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