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but one question..if i get them specifically to only rout my orders through arca how is this advantageous?

tdameritrade dont have much of an offer for ecns when it comes to stop market

dont know about u guys but MM will try to squeeze as much money as possible out of every situation...I had a stop order for IWm at 66.34 activation price to buy to cover and not only did the price stock reach this level and go above it without execution but after 4 minutes of just looking at...

I am fairly new to trading so any recommendations are greatly appreciated. Hope to learn through this journal. Will on another day post chart with entrance and exits if i can get my system to do such a thing

i thought i had called it a day but then did some more trading to end with 19 trips and a 236 dollar loss...not that much better but still better...getting better used to 1 minute chart

horrible trading day 528 loss ... tried getting in on too many occasions and used 1 min interval instead of 3...should not have done so since it is way too fast for me and my trading behavior

i am currently in europe so that is why it appears with a +6 hour difference. I know it would have been kind of shocking to do day trading at those hours with that volume.

3 wins 0 losers 567.54 dollars BTW I mostly have long positions but they have been lagging a bit so I started trading a little bit to see if it can help. I do not have access to a futures account and that is why I trade the index etfs. I mostly trade based on getting in the first higher high...

i agree that the market will go down and voted that way. but ur cockiness is just too much and u are going to be humbled in a very bad way one of these days...u could be the smartest fellow and yet by being so goddamn cocky the one time u say something wrong people are just going to pound on...

I only have a couple of months trading and I was wondering if people trade companies that reported earnings or had amajor news and if traded at around what time would you trade it??

the profits made per trade are significant however, there are not that many trades made and it only works well with stocks that are most of the time in trends such as LCC or DRYS

i tested it for 3 years with 30 different stocks and they all end up being very profitable. of course i would have to execute every trade right at the moment that the line is crossed or else most of it becomes negative, and my percent of losers is very small

My formula is very simple and it is supposed to give back great returns according to backtesting but I am wondering what you guys think about it. This is it basically: Using a 60 min chart and a 30 day Moving Average buy (and buy to cover) when prices go above the line and sell (and sell short)...

to make my questions more specific what are the main quotes i should trade (i want to start with s&p e-mini but i cant even find it) and how do you approach futures to make profitable trades and what kind of techniques should i use??

it is being provided for free and my main interest right now is learnign how to use futures and how to use the platform so any help on either of these would truly be appreciated

Hello everyone I currently had to move out of day trading because my equity was too low and my only option now are futures. I currently have the X-Trader platform available as a simulator but I really have no experience in futures or using this platform any help on how i should get started

thank you all for the support i really think I will move out of the dry shipping sector to something with less beta for now and look up all the info provided in the last post thanks again

Ok so my situation is pretty bad. I have in the past two months burnt around 40% of my portfolio trading on the dry shippers, drys and exm specifically. My main problem I realize is my lack of a real strategy and being very stupid about buying in after hours and keeping it until the next day...