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It's been quite a while since I've posted anything. The 50 day SPX SMA has passed below the 200 day SMA about a week ago. This doesn't happen often. When it does, it's hard for me to think in bullish terms.

I just remember last July, a couple traders who posted nailed the point of reversal (H&S right shoulder test and fail).

IHS?

For the major brokers, they handle those size of accounts all the time and much bigger. The account size you mention is nothing for most of them. It depnds what, and how you trade really. Check out the on line reveiws on line and do other research. Many people trade in so many different...

IB has liberal leverage, low margin, low commissions and low fees. And it has come up again and again on ET, they will liquidate a portfolio in a heart beat, if an account hits one of their risk triggers. They offer you the leverage, and don't over charge with margin; but they will quickly...

Stopped -4.0

Changed my mind. Sell stop 1126 Buy stop 1130 Buy limit (target) 1116. May not get filled.

Bias to the short side obviously futher down move expected. But, a quick retracement fast up certainly possible tomorrow or tonight. Point being this after rth session, I don't feel right about entering a trade tonight either way. Last night was a better set up to go short than tonight - I...

Hang Seng and Nikkei starting out with a nose dive.

It depends where TDA wants to take this. If they want to compete with (1) Schwab or ETrade, or they want to compete with (2) IB and a few others. If (1), then they don't need to worry that much about data speed and futures margin. If (2), then it was crazy to raise margin on futures...

He called himself a simple country lawyer - that's what he told everyone. he not only graduated from Harvard - he graduated with honors. He didn't get to be Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee by being just colorful. he was brilliant. Some of the younger people reading this, don't have...

This discourse has raised in my mind a nagging question I have had for quite some time. What kind of drink is a mojito? So I made the effort and looked it up on Wiki: Cuba is the birthplace of the Mojito, although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate.[8]...

Well my excuse is it is still early for me here in AZ. :)

I fell for it. I think you can get live accounts for just a couple of grand in a couple cases; but easy to blow through that. But, most of us do in the begining of our game and blow through amounts way greater than 2 grand when starting out. :)

There's more than a handful that will give you live quotes without an additional fee as long as you have a trading account. In fact, you can pay for a lot of different stuff, depending on the broker, but if you have a trading account I am not aware of any that charge for being live. Now if you...

I'll go with IB. I've had an account with them before. Still want a firm with a wide range of products available to me. Need to find a good charting package though. Don't want to depend on IB for charts.

You have some good points. I have no problem what you are saying. We may disagree on a few points; but what we disagree on we are splitting hairs. So no need to split some more hairs. I am going to change brokers. Not an earth shattering event.

I usually just stick with the ES. Was it 6500 on Friday and I didn't even notice it LOL, made about 5 round trips. Shows you how much I was paying attention.:)

"Never..." When silver futures margin was increased in the last couple of months TOS announced it on the hour as I recall.

Did they make an announcement they raised them prior to last weekend's conversion? Even if they raised the ES margin to 10,000 it wouldn't effect my ability to trade what I want to trade - meaning I trade a small position size very few contracts. It's the way it was done, I have a problem...