So, I guess NFA will require $100k minimum to day trade futures from now on? This will be to protect the traders... from themselves of course... :(
LMAO, yessss, this is so true!
I don't think you can make that amount by investing, but 50% a month is achievable with trading leveraged instruments such as index, currency or...
the 6E contract tracks the spot pretty accurately. The issue is when they hit some key levels and the stops are triggered, then the movement is...
Simply put, I don't calculate $500/contract, I will trade with around $1500/contract, 6E. Some people, especially newer traders get excited about...
The stops rest at the exchange, but they are triggered by the last transaction not by Bid/Ask. If there are no transactions/trades the stop will...
Wallace, I scalp 6E intraday. However I use smaller leverage, the $500/contract just makes me too nervous. Regarding smaller contracts, the...
Hi Huffles, and welcome to EliteTrader. Even when scalping, you should check the longer timeframes for possible Key Levels. please check the...
jtnet, there are strategies that are traded off tick charts, for example 600 ticks chart. If one doesn't have an access to a true tick data feed...
Kiwi, thank you for the information. That explains why a tick chart from IB is so much different than a tick chart from, say, OpenTick. I have a...
you will have to be more specific... what do you trade? do you require charting? etc... Your question is like "what's the best car out there?"
The Matrox card wasnt in production at the time I was looking for a Vid card... they said on the website when it would be available. I got my...
actually, what IB sends out is not the actual tick data, but 1 second cummulative snapshots. compare it with eSignal or openTick, or whatever paid...
this statisctics, even if accurate, is meaningless. How about a headline like this: "90% of the traders who worked their a$$es off trying to...
Hey, no problem, actually you should thank the guys who helped me :) gnome and others Can I ask you a big favor? IF you find a multimonitor stand...
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