I clicked the link and saw your attachment. Nice job! Are you one of the Negative Nancy's I referred to? Again, this is not about comparing TST...it's about civility and courtesy.
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Images aren't allowed sunshine:
What do you mean, "images are not allowed sunshine?" I understand the smarminess, but your "LOL" image is allowed, so why should mine not be? I look at them on another PC, and they are both there. So why are you distracting with silly nonsense?
Yes, I am a negative nancy I suppose. Not sure what that truly means. I am just a bit poopoo on all this TST impossibility. Daytrading is super tough, and not for the undercapitalized timidity. And I have certain opines about Top Step because of their fees. I just feel that if people could just get it together, and treat it seriously, they could be successful with a reasonable amount of capital, and not have to rely on these "prop trading firms".
'Tis all I was saying
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What you say may or may not be true...I don't know, but I don't recall you being a Negative Nancy or 'hater' in this thread.
I couldn't care less about TST. My point, once again, is/was about 'haters.' How there seems to be a group of undocumented experts that remain excessively and unnecessarily negative towards all positive posts.
Hopefully, your TST feedback is useful to someone.
No worries mate, we got a bit sidetracked in the thread. It is up to JamesEM to post what he's found on his journey with TST.
Is that paper trading performance? Because a couple months ago you were asking about margin requirements and how overnight positions work for a $10,000 account.
It was an arbitrary amount to make the math easy. Nobody gave me a thorough answer that checked out. And of COURSE it's a paper account. If I had the amount of money needed to make that happen I'd be quite pleased. But it is conceivably possible. The point being, it cannot happen unless you can hold contracts through electronic trading close, which TST does not allow.
You only need enough to buy 2 contracts to make that happen. Don't get hung up on cash account, what matters is account value, overall. So just look at each margin requirement for whatever vehicle you want, and that's what your account value needs to be. Don't make it anymore complicated than that.
So if you have $15,000, you should be able to buy 2 contracts of any commonly traded future overnight