Originally posted by Thug_Life
An important detail about the wldc "ticket" charge - they only charge you once per day per stock. It is more like a $4 "stock charge." If you trade one stock all day, you only pay $4 in ticket charges, $2 buy and $2 sell and no more for the rest of the day unless you trade something else. At least, this is how the "ticket" charge was applied to me.
They are not very up-front about the way the ticket is applied, and that only hurts wldc. There is a big difference in only being charged once per day.
Originally posted by mook_trader1
all of you are so focus on insignificant things.
Two things newbies need to know.
First,
All that is important is capital contribution. Pay nothing if you can. If you guys want to trade with zero capital, go to worldco, send in a resume saying you got a 3.8+ gpa from harvard or some other top school and they'll beg you to trade with no capital down.
Second, if you can't get around capital contributions then put down no more than 5k. Your deal doesn't matter. what difference is 1 cents a share vs 1.5 even 2 cents for that matter, you trade 100 shares when you start. the difference doesn't add up to sh*t!! once you start making some money, you can get the best deals on the street from them. You just have to keep going back to them saying your going to leave and watch your commissions get slashed so low you wouldn't believe it.
anyway the point is if you are not making money why the f*ck do you care about your payout, if you trade a few thousand shares a day what difference is commissions of 100 vs 150 a day. Learn to trade and make a few g's a day, you'll make back 6 months of high commisions in a hour.
Learn to walk before you run. just worry about how much you can lose out of pocket in the begining, in the end everything works out, if not the experience costs you 5k or whatever you put down, if you lose 10-20k you are the true mook trader.
Originally posted by ronb107
My apologies for not mentioning that the firm is Lynx Capital in NY.
They teach tape reading. I suppose this could rightly be called a scalping approach, since most of my trades average 10-30 cents (while more proficient traders may typically get 50+ cents).
What I like most with this approach is the high reward to risk ratio (10 to 1 or better). With stops in place, I usually lose 1 cent (occasionally I might lose more, but I'm careful that there is size at the Bid or Offer before entering the trade).
--Ron
Originally posted by ronb107
My apologies for not mentioning that the firm is Lynx Capital in NY.
They teach tape reading. I suppose this could rightly be called a scalping approach, since most of my trades average 10-30 cents (while more proficient traders may typically get 50+ cents).
What I like most with this approach is the high reward to risk ratio (10 to 1 or better). With stops in place, I usually lose 1 cent (occasionally I might lose more, but I'm careful that there is size at the Bid or Offer before entering the trade).
--Ron