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What's funny is if you google "low risk, low reward investments", apparently they dont exist. Everything out there is "Low risk, high reward". I've always been wary of investment advisors as they have vested interests in where your money is. My philosophy is to look around for ideas...

Yea, this is in line with my thinking. Like you, I have a trading escrow account thats sole purpose is to cover any debits that occur to my trading account beyond x. What are some of the investments youve found that can yield 5% and are 'as safe as you can make them'?

Yea, my issue is I dont want the 30% drawdowns in anything I do with my money post-trading. I don't think stocks are a particularly great buy right now (when they're cheaper my risk tolerance for the stock market might change). When i distribute money from my trading account I want it to be...

Nope, not kidding. trading and investing are entirely separate endeavors. I'm a good trader but I wouldn't consider myself a good "investor" per se. I never had the interest to spend any time or effort seeking out/understanding the options available to me and have always deferred to the advice...

Been trading for 8 years or so professionally. High volume trader of CME futures. 35 yrs old. Married with a child. My question pertains to investing and what others in my shoes career-wise, do with their earned income. I know traditionally they say to be more aggressive with investing at...

If you dont mind, can you tell me what trading for a blackbox firm entails? Are you monitoring a system all day, and executing when you get signals? Or are you more doing programming stuff?

That's interesting you say that. I live in Chicago now. what makes you say this? Are you talking more from a standpoint of affordable living per bang for your buck? I can see how this might be. Owning a condo in Tribeca I'd imagine would be 3 times what it might be to own on Lasalle/Wells...

Does anyone know if Gator Trading is still around? I'm trying to find even a phone number, address, let alone an email or website for the group and have yet to find anything on the web. They're supposed to be located in Chicago, or at least once were. Does anyone know anything about...

I'm indifferent. There. Now you have a third opinion.

I've read Malkiel's latest edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The scarcity of replies here likely represents that ideas expressed in this book and in other material addressing Random Walk probably wouldn't go over too well with people on this board, and for good reason. The book...

To those of you currently trading or who have traded futures at prop firms or arcades, can you post what your round trip commisions are/were (all-in, including all fees, etc), and what your other overhead costs are (news, desk fee, etc.) I'm looking at various prop firms and am wondering a)...

I would tend to agree with that. Crazy Eddie's is huge.

Thats what it looked like this morning at 9:30am...

I know a couple guys trading there and doing very well. It's also called DE Trading. I think they're looking to bring on experienced traders right now. I know they used to have a "training program" but don't think they're doing anything like this anymore. They back their guys 100% as I...

Yep. I agree.

I've got an interview later this week with an options market making firm that reportedly does good volume in the Eurodollar options. My question is two-fold I guess... First off, it seems most of these places are super-keen on bringing in guys that can work with numbers rapidly in their head...

I've got an interview later this week with an options market making firm that reportedly does good volume in the Eurodollar options. My question is two-fold I guess... First off, it seems most of these places are super-keen on bringing in guys that can work with numbers rapidly in their...

Well, the thing is, they said that you will never get to the point where you owe the firm any money, that commish and desk fee will only come out of your pocket IF YOU ARE PROFITABLE, and in that case, it works against your profit. So it's def not a decieving setup on their part. Their...

Because i would be trading entirely their capital, minus the desk fee and dollar R/T's to trade e-mini's and treasuries. Also, the possibility exists to be trading a couple hundred lot clips + if i show consistennt profitability over time. To me, that seems attractive. The splits become...

And the split is 70 (you)/30 (firm) to start out with.