I love trading against machines with 1 millisecond turnaround. They're so predictable in how they mechanically work orders that it's easy to take...
In the sense that it removes market risk, I see how on the surface it appear be less risky, but provided your directional positions have...
If you start out trading that kind of size, you will blow up before you get a chance to learn. Find a broker with more respectable commissions;...
Time and Sales and Depth of Market?
That'll help him get the first downtick of the day, which is probably the only option to get a good short price at the open... especially if the...
I say this not to be a dick, but how is betting on the direction of a spread any less of a gamble than betting on the direction of a single...
Net + 360, Gross +820 Nothing great today, nothing bad... the only significant mistake I made was giving up on a trade that was just sitting...
80? I think that's a bit extreme. 8:30-6:30 should be more than enough time for research, strategizing, and review... that's 50 hours... How...
Are you fucking kidding me? Have you learned nothing from all your tuition money and screen time? The one thing I learned early, early on is...
Net - 340, Gross+420
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "chop shop," but if you mean prop firm or leverage providing broker advertising as a prop firm - even shady,...
Hey, I'm not knocking used car salesman. Some people are born to sell, and those who make a good living doing what they're gifted at I applaud....
In NYC I know for a fact doing as little as a million shares/month you can get .00225 and use lightspeed with under $5k/down from an extremely...
Being a discount broker if you have an interest in trading makes no sense. They have nothing in common with one another - it's akin to signing up...
What you describe may be the case at many prop shops, but a shop that backs traders with their own money and has more to earn if the trader is net...
Net: somewhere between -10 and + 10, gross +500. I traded horrendously and was lucky enough to catch a GSK bonus short for 40 cents on 1000...
Some asshole is short at least a million shares... he's got way, way, way too much buying power to be wrong, I think, so you may well be right....
Why not have both? Why now trade slowly and steadily while hitting a homerun once in a while? Are the two mutually exclusive? I know for me...
Net +400, Gross+857
Maybe I'm confused, but isn't that stock up over 100% from when he bought it, and wasn't it up as much as 200% at its peak? How is that a bad...
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