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Got an email today about a special guest presenter tomorrow at TST.....is that the Austin from this site??

Yeah, I think the change there is fairly recent although I'm not sure and don't know the exact number but I think it's closer to $8/rt.

Just FYI, the commish is $5 in their combine but has been raised for guys once they are live. So that right there is a small difference between the combine and being funded.

Mav, I think you are spot on here. I traded equities for a living for 8 years and moved into futures in the last couple of years. I banged my head against the wall trying to sit at the screen and trade them everyday. I came to the conclusion that with volatility so low it's just not a winning...

Mav, There's been a few changes at TST with regards to funded guys. From what I've been told there are no more free combines for funded guys who then get sent back to the combine. It used to be free combines for life and then it went to two free combines and now I believe it's none.

Volente, I'm also funded with tst so I can answer your question. Once you hit the cushion you can take a check and don't need to maintain the $5k. Obviously it would be silly if your balance is $5k to take out $4k because then if your balance ends at 0 at the end of a day you're done. I think...

The way I like to think about trading is by taking the same mentality that a basketball player would to his game. You can't just pick up a basketball and have a goal of scoring 30 points in a game. What you need to do is practice and focus on your mechanics and fundamentals and if you score 30...

Good call just going with the practice account today. It's always good to take a day and regroup after having a rough go of it yesterday. I think you have to define scalping. Do you mean sitting on the bid and offer and trying to make a tick? Or are you at least going for 5-10 ticks in high...

Yup, crude has had a nice trend all morning. Have you gone into the chat room at TST yet? There are lots of good traders in the rooms who are always sharing ideas. If you're just starting out in futures then just have one of the rooms up and observe what the guys are doing who make money.

I'm sure there probably is but the only thing I'm trading right now is crude. I just make sure I know when rollover is coming and then switch to the new month the first day that the volume is higher. That's why I switched to Nov this morning.

I started trading Nov today. To always be in the right month just look at the T4 DOM and trade whichever month has the most volume.

That's the exact reason why guys have been saying not to trade the ES. With the vix this low it's just not a good proposition. Go take a look at todays crude chart. There's almost a $3 range just since the pit open with a pretty obvious trend.

The best reason I would say is for access to more capital. If you can sign up and pass the combine then it's like a cheap call option.

I don't think the point of TST is to teach people how to trade. TST is there more to provide funding for profitable traders. Sure they have classes where they teach some different market techniques but for the most part you are responsible for your own trading. This isn't one of these deals...

I agree. I've done the combine and the fills are realistic. I had a live T4 account running at the same time and there was very little difference.

I have no clue why you can't. All that I have to do is left click on the bid price where I want to put an order and it goes in.

Mav, yes you can place bids and offers on the DOM in sim mode on T4. The functionality is exactly the same as being live and the fills are pretty realistic as well. There's plenty of times where I've offered a 5 lot on the SIM and it only fills 2 if that price level was barely touched.

You've got 30 days to finish the combine. Just trade in that practice account until you get used to the software before you go ahead and hit your daily loss limit. I've used most of the big futures front-ends and currently use T4 and it's probably the easiest to use. There aren't many bells and...

6E won't correlate perfectly to spot since it's a futures product.

I think everyone is getting too hung up on the issue of the account size (i.e. $50K, $100K, etc). Think of it more in terms of buying power. With the $50K account you can trade up to 5 lots, so that's your buying power. In reality you'd need a good profit cushion to do 5 lots since the most...