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Exactly. I noticed for example 15:30 move in ES happens quite often. So you just enter ahead of it and take small hit if it doesn't happen or 1% pump like today.

The post is way too long for average ETer to read...

100 year old edge which still works today: front running big customer orders

In that case let me explain how that usually works. There are two margins Initial (in your example $500) and Maintenance (always lower than initial) for example $400. When you buy you need to post $500 in margin and you will not get margin call until you have $400. In case of 4 contracts you...

I was concerned about that too. It looks more like gambling.

For average investor options are the first choice and futures are second.

I agree that you should look at revenues first. Earnings numbers are very easily can be manipulated while revenues are much harder for companies to tweak.

I guess you are exception to the rule. :)

Does anybody did any research on trading systems where you base your entry on time only expecting a move to start completely disregarding price action. Something like in this blog post? http://bowgett.com/Blog/post/why-it-is-enough-to-know-when-eur-is-going-to-move I would like to do a little...

Actually I think the worst thing for any new trader would be start making money right away and then started thinking "Oh, this is easy!".

Good stuff

if (X and Y and Z) { Buy(100, "LNKD", 80.00); } else { StartProcess("solitaire.exe"); }

2-3% lets me have 30-40 positions in my portfolio to better manage risk in case of signle trade going wrong way and hurting performance of my account.

I usually allocate 2-3% for one stock.

May be you should look at this: http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2011/5/31/its-the-first-of-the-month.html S&P was up 13 out 17 times. Good luck with your puts though because you are going to need it.

Thank you. This is what I am seeing right now too. It is time to find rich relatives. :cool:

We still have QE2 for one more month and then QE2.5 (reinvestments of prceeds). Short term rates are still near 0 so I would say that rally can continue for a while.

Interesting... Do you plan to publish performance of your calls too?

Interactive Brokers has all kinds of stops and they do have web interface. You can try their demo account.

I have a question to people who have outside investors. What kind of information do you usually need to provide to outside investors to make them interested you? Do they want to see audited results for 1, 3, 5 years? How much capital do you need to put in to make live results respectable...