Quote from [Proximo]:
Why do you guys have a problem believing someone is short 67 contracts?
If he said he was short 1000 - then I would say Bullshit. Since I know he trades retail. :]
Quote from saxon22:
I have the same outlook on trading. I try to stay away from big trades and generally do not go with more than 4 to 8 cars, 16 being a once a month set up. Like I said I got cought with my pants down. If it were not for vacations I would not worry much since I think the market will return to 1200 in January. I just do not want to hold onto this trade through the Christmas period as I am going to see my family and wanted the time to be completely off from trading.
One of the reasons I have increased the size to 67 cars was to be able to get out of it asap with some profit keeping only a couple of cars in play till 12/15.
Quote from saxon22:
I have the same outlook on trading. I try to stay away from big trades and generally do not go with more than 4 to 8 cars, 16 being a once a month set up. Like I said I got cought with my pants down. If it were not for vacations I would not worry much since I think the market will return to 1200 in January. I just do not want to hold onto this trade through the Christmas period as I am going to see my family and wanted the time to be completely off from trading.
One of the reasons I have increased the size to 67 cars was to be able to get out of it asap with some profit keeping only a couple of cars in play till 12/15.
Quote from stock piker:
He certainly doesn't need to be a prop-trader to carry 67 short. He asked how to provide proof. I personally don't believe it, but only because he trades the position like a complete degen and therefore unlikely to be sitting on $400k +.
Totally depends on what type of trading you are conducting. If you are hyper-scalping ES then looking at buying/selling patterns from only 500 companies (S&P500) in the NYSE may be what you feel works best.Quote from [Proximo]:
Why would you care what 100's of companies with less 100 Million market cap are doing. Please explain.
If your trading the S&P 500 does it not make sense to have a custom TICK tracking the 500 companies only.