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I'll bet this probably fixes your problem. I had the same strange problem when I first got a computer running XP. I was totally boggled. right click "my computer," left click properties click on your advanced tab click on settings under "startup and recovery" under system failure, unclick...

Have you ever considered trading individual stock setups instead of the QQQs? I think the QQQs and market stocks in general are more difficult to trade, especially in conditions like these where the charts and technicals are pretty muddled. I find that having a short watchlist and a long...

two words: stop limit.

I just wanted to point out... that regretting decisions in your life is the worst thing you can do to yourself. if you want a lifetime of emotional torment, then you're definitely going down the correct road. no one's perfect. no one has all the answers. people live and grow. if you want to do...

1) There's a certain style that's suitable for prop trading, and places like Heartland teach that style. More size, more scalping, more tickets. You couldn't trade that way as a customer because the commissions would kill you, but trading prop that way rewards you. 2) Heartland retains GOOD...

If you leave, the company eats the loss. They eat the draw they paid to you and they eat any losses you incurred. You leave the company with nothing owed except your immense gratitude.

Well, if you've read some of the other threads by this guy, I feel kind of bad for him. He's worked all those years in the corporate world with his MBA, and now he's having an impossible time finding a job because of the economy and because he's 40. What would you do in his situation...

Not sure why you find this funny. You get out of life what you put into it. People have different priorities. Some people (like some of those on this thread) chose to go to B-School while they were younger for the experience and *wanted* to work in the corporate world for whatever reason only...

This one's just a reply by one of those MBA consulting services to some daytrader that asked about his chances for getting into a top B-school.

The first thread's extremely long, and some of the formatting might have been lost in the cut and paste process, but I stuck em in a text file, just for you Rob :)

Sometimes I trade the slower laggard semis like ALTR, XLNX, NVDA off KLAC. But of course, big moves in KLAC will cause big moves in the SOX, and therefore cause smaller moves in the slower laggards. Not sure this is exactly what you're looking for, but I've found they're extremely low risk plays...

I'm sure you're not the only daytrader in the world that's wondered about it, so here's some relevant threads from the BusinessWeek MBA Forums: (sorry, you have to register for the forums though, no big deal)...

How's this Don, I trade at Heartland, and Heartland pays their traders $800 a week draw. Don't be so quick to doubt. Momentum still pays their traders starting out $800 a week draw as well. You can send them 100 traders tomorrow if you'd like, but if you're sending them to Heartland just to...

Hey, for someone that's struggling with trading and losing money, myth or not, it's still a pretty attractive alternative! (I know I've definitely thought about it once or twice in the past!)

Datek all the way man, ISLD instant fill executions... well, except those times they got stuck...........

I think the key is.... DO YOU WANT TO TRADE? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TRADE? That's what it comes down to. You could go back to get a real job, or even better, go to B-school. Even at a 2nd rate B-school, you'd still graduate making $70k a year, corporate perks, cozy job, easy life, hot chicks at...

EGGS...mmm. Beautiful run that Christmas eh Gekko?

Gekko, Well, this is one of the few threads here that touches close to home. I started out pretty much the same way you did. I've completely blown out twice (small amounts <$10k), been on the brink many times, only to luckily avoid margin calls and have my heavily margined position bounce...

Avalanche, Yes, Heartland is largely focused on Nasdaq stocks, but believe it or not, I actually just started trading NYSE stocks a few weeks ago. I'm moving more towards a position trading/technical analysis trading style with the listed stocks. Tired of all the games and scalping that's...

It's about feature-filled as any DAT software I've used before. All it really lacks is real candlestick charting and filters, and hey, that's what FirstAlert is for. Why bog down your primary trading software with features that something like FirstAlert does SO much better? We're using...