If you were to trade the afternoon session, would you be able to find as many opportunities?
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Grinding it out, day after day
- Thread starter lescor
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Quote from lescor:
Nope. Not unless it was a good market environment with lots of volatility.
Speaking about volatility in this context, what do you mean exactly: presence of large price swings back and forth? Having increased number of people making illogical and ineffective decisions? Something else?
Quote from saxon22:
Since everybody is asking all kinds of questions, let me try my luck. Of all the traders that you know well enough to see that they are making in this business...
... how many of them spend part/most/all day posting trade calls, markets calls or detailed, in-depth trading tactics inside public message boards, twitter or any other social mediums open to everyone, free of charge, simply because they want to "help other traders"?
"In terms of routing, you likely have a lot more venues to choose from, but are they considerably faster than the limited routes offered by retail? I have the impression that the HFT guys are competing in the routes used by prop firms (BATS, ARCA, EDGA, EDGX, etc.) so extensively that it's difficult to get filled with those routes unless the market goes against the trader. Retail orders, on the other hand, are mixed in with the internalized order flow, a flow which HFT firms don't always have access to. Would a retail order then prevent me from being front run by HFT, or is that just a naive belief? And what's your most favourite route? (No need to answer this one if it's strategy sensitive.)"
I was under the impression retail was always routed to say, a Knight trading desk. Is this what you mean by internalized flow? Can you choose that your orders be routed to the exchanges under a "normal" retail account?
Speaking of which, do you know what your latency is in getting your orders to any of the exchanges? I remember reading you trade with Echo.. do they perform a risk check before sending your orders to the exchange?
I was under the impression retail was always routed to say, a Knight trading desk. Is this what you mean by internalized flow? Can you choose that your orders be routed to the exchanges under a "normal" retail account?
Speaking of which, do you know what your latency is in getting your orders to any of the exchanges? I remember reading you trade with Echo.. do they perform a risk check before sending your orders to the exchange?
Quote from austinp:
... how many of them spend part/most/all day posting trade calls, markets calls or detailed, in-depth trading tactics inside public message boards, twitter or any other social mediums open to everyone, free of charge, simply because they want to "help other traders"?
truthful answer: none. zero. ever
Quote from nkhoi:
2000 mg C a day you will never be sick again http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=19960
Make sure your vitamin C is not flavored with aspartame, as many of them are now. Aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde and several other carcinogens during the digestion process. Some vitamin C are sweetened with sucralose instead, this is better known as Splenda and should also be avoided.
Also I've heard not to exceed 2k mg vitamin C a day to avoid kidney stones.
Just like in trading, there are hidden traps everywhere in health and nutrition!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Metabolism_and_phenylketonuria
Quote from lescor:
We've been in the new house for almost a year now. It turned out pretty much just as we wanted.
Here's a couple pics from a local home magazine that featured it.
<img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3421401>
Why are houses in the U.S. and Canada built from wood? In most other countries bricks and cement is used. I really don't get this because wood really burns down fast. On the other hand, very few homes made from brick and cement really burn down.