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  1. Questions for experienced daytraders

    Commissions are not your only transaction cost.
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  2. Tip of the iceberg. Where smoke=fire

    "Wildgoose" .. seriously.
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Commodity Futures

  3. 500K in college loan debt, earning 80K a year!!!!

    Sick horse you say? Luxury ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. Questions for experienced daytraders

    Fools, liars and failed traders selling advice.
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  5. Does Level 3 exist?

    Partly because there are zero retail day traders with an edge greater than spread + comms. Excited retail day traders .. market maker heaven....
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Trading

  6. Questions for experienced daytraders

    What he said. Also .. if you have a HUGE edge, that happens to skew the odds 51/49 in your favour .. but then you scale your trades by paying...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  7. Sectors to exclude

    Why no ADRs? Are we jus talking FX move issues [hedgeable]. Also, why is a wide spread an issue .. if you're receiving it :)
    Post by: Rationalize, May 28, 2011 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. any recommendation for free real-time charting software that work with IB???

    IB offers cheap comms & it has a reasonable API with a FIX interface accessible to retail. I think that's pretty awesome in itself. As for...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 24, 2011 in forum: Trading Software

  9. IB plugin blackbox

    p.s. I meant drag-and-drop GUI design, within the IDE, to layout the screen controls..
    Post by: Rationalize, May 23, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  10. IB plugin blackbox

    You might find that network latency is a much bigger problem. 1 thread may do just as well.
    Post by: Rationalize, May 22, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  11. putting all my efforts

    While this thread is a bit serious, and somewhat disturbing, I will add this personal comment. *** It might be worth trading on a simulator in...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 22, 2011 in forum: Journals

  12. IB plugin blackbox

    I'm going to assume that Timberhill does not use TWS in any way to make markets... JFreeCharts or not.
    Post by: Rationalize, May 22, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. IB plugin blackbox

    What about GUI tools for Java? Anything drag & drop out there, or would you say the C# IDE tools are easier?
    Post by: Rationalize, May 22, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  14. can someone give me the holy grail

    50% - costs. Why is it assumed that cutting your losses and letting winners run works? Do you think this works for casino games too? Really?
    Post by: Rationalize, May 21, 2011 in forum: Professional Trading

  15. can someone give me the holy grail

    If you are suggesting that you can tell "at a glance" whether a trend or a range will continue, then you will do very well.. I'd say however...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 20, 2011 in forum: Professional Trading

  16. putting all my efforts

    Along the same lines .. if your skill set is insufficient to get a job at a prop firm, HFT firm, hedge fund, brokerage or bank, then you're...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 20, 2011 in forum: Journals

  17. can someone give me the holy grail

    Some examples. Moving averages: - When following a trend, buy when price crosses above the average, and sell when price crosses below the...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 19, 2011 in forum: Professional Trading

  18. Is it advisable to do this?

    Terrible advise. More effective to buy an ETF. You suggest to pay all those comissions instead? As stated before -- this is not the place...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 19, 2011 in forum: Trading

  19. My DAYTRADER story

    True that. It's amazing that so many discretionary traders believe that their art gives them a perceived edge... While so many algo traders...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 19, 2011 in forum: Professional Trading

  20. Is it advisable to do this?

    The puts will generally price in the dividend. No free money there. Also, in some jurisdictions holding puts over ex-div will effect the way...
    Post by: Rationalize, May 18, 2011 in forum: Trading
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