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I have been trading for a bit more than 4 years, and have been profitable for the last 3 years. This month is so boring. I have never seen a month like this. Spy looks so dead and there is no real volume. Most of the volume generated are program trading. Sometimes I'm begging for like one...

I trade daily using two 24 inches monitors from my office and home. I've always tried to think of a way to be able to trade away from my office. My trading strategy requires me to use two screens. I have considered the following: 1. A regular laptop with the capability of plugging...

I've been trading for 3 years and just started to realize how little i know my software. I'm using Sterling Trader pro but I think this question should be rather universal. 1. What are (bid%), (ask%), (last%) or (Yclo%)? Can anyone give examples? 2. What are index, index divisor, delta...

Is there any way to config your hot key so that it automatic switch the "sshrt" function to "sell" when the stock is not shortable? i know i can set up different hot keys for selling stocks or covering positions, but its just so annoying to do this just because a few of the stocks cannot be...

municiple bond funds are usually really illiquid, i kno there is an etf for bond funds called mub. i'm wondering if there is any futures for municple bonds as a whole which traded pre-market. thanks~

We are a group of traders who all trade individually. We were former Switftrade collegues and decided to move out in the summer of 2008. Most of us trade between 40k shares to 100k shares a day. We are very consistent. Most of us have 1 losing day the most every month and the loss is really...

I have questions regarding the filter feature. Is it possible to filter the entire market and show stocks currently has a really large order sitting on bid or ask? (large order can be defined as 5 times the average orders size or can be defined as a certain number of size). I looked thru the...

I trade wmt, dis, hpq and sometimes xom. I don't know if those stocks r good for scalpers but those r the stocks people trade in my office and they r making money off them.

Thanks for the reply. I try to make a living off it. I dont have much financial burden for now since im trading relatively small(max loss 50 dollars). and 100 shares at a time. I will only increase my share size when i see some consistency in my trades.

I cannot trade, PERIOD. For a long while, even when I was losing/not making money, I could find some "reasons" and try to make something positive out of it. I started to day trade last year in a prop firm from febuary to june. Didn't really blow my 5k accout but had like 1 k left. I...

I think people overreact to this article. Of course if this happens, this will change everyone's life here. But as long as there is someone who is not trained to make money off the market. YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO MAKE MONEY OFF THEM. The way you trade may be different. The time horizon...

Every time you look at something as vague as "averaging down," you have to look at it in the context. I will give some examples: Ex1 You see a stock price moving into a major support level at 17.00 which it doesn't go below. The price of the stock now is at 17.13 and the future is...

I wanna to know if anyone used to have similar problems as i have right now, but have become profitable. I consider myself a developing trader who can't make money off the market but don't give it away either. During the past 2 months, I have finally pulled myself from losing money to...

Thanks everyone for replying. I have sent out about 30 applications to better prop firms like, first new york security, trillium, 3d trading etc. A couple of those gave me good responses. However, after they called me to discuss a possible interview they always started out with the same...

Let me introduce myself briefly. I am from Taiwan and had my education in the US. I graduated from Emory a few years ago. I started to day trade since mid feb and have encountered some problems. I joined a prop firm, which is a small firm. They train us to become trend followers and their...