What specialists/market makers?
A common mistake I see people making is assuming that comparing their returns to those of professionals managing billions of dollars makes sense....
Trade setups, not your P/L. If high probabiliy setups show themselves to you, not taking them because you made too much money before is to...
The market rarely changes drastically overnight. OK, decimalization, the hybrid, and major structural changes, but generally the changes are slow...
The NYSE volume has actually increased since the hybrid, most likely becuase of an increase in bots and black boxes. I don't know of any firm...
The perfect firm, with all criteria listed in order of importance: Knowing that you can withdraw your money any time without a problem....
Any firm that's giving up $20k/monthly to traders who go through their accounts... well, deserves what they get... simple risk management and...
The spec can't see the stops nor he can he hold buy orders, except when an LRP is triggered. Only after an extreme instantaneous price move does...
I don't understand why daytrading is not a lower risk, higher reward strategy. In the first month of the hybrid, the risk was absurd as no one...
You can't really learn anything papertrading intraday equity strategies because, unless you're risking 30 cents to make a point and trying to hold...
Wow, I think that was the worst grammatical mistake I have made in the last decade. Thanks. I basically walked along broad... towards the...
They're a scam, I suspect. Their phone number is not correct. I called the number they list in their ads and it's some dude who knows nothing...
If you're scalping/daytrading it's important. It's not as useful as it once was, and there are lots of games played in it which you have to...
Claering costs + software maintenance.
Don't quote me, but it's in the .0002 (not .002)... range... around 1/50th of a penny
No... slippage, the fact that in the future it won't perform as well in the past, and spreads/commissions will make it a money loser. .7-.9 pips...
Why are you trading more than 100-200 shares? If you believe you can make money within a few weeks of live trading, the market will humble you...
Don't quit "just because you're up money". You're trading at this stage to learn, not to make money. What you should do is stick to a daily max...
The problem of mine which is the topic of this thread had lately begun to manifest itself in other, more pernicious forms... consistently (4 out...
NYX is very hard to borrow, it has a high short interest. Assent charges $.10/share to short it.
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