Recent content by herbie14

good for me

i will provide desk, dual screen pc's etc everything you need except your charting software and brokerage platform..

Hi I may be opening an office in Liverpool Street for a select few people to trade there own account with there own money, i have space for around 10 people costs should be for the desk pc etc £500 per month, slightly more for a leased line... i will be providing a small office for serious people

did you make the models? or did you just watch the results.. if you traded futures for a firm then how can you trade them if it is a machine? or did you execute the trades? 2 very very different things i would say to start trading very small size then once or if you find a plan that makes money...

tullets cantors gni gfi etc are brokers... not traders or salespeople

i may be going mad i thought 100 lot clips... if 100 lots a month then this ssounds more in line... i suppose it depends on your trading strategies, are you in and out in minutes or in for a 20 tick move? dont forget most brokerage houses will count one lot buy and sale (1round turn) as 2 lots

i think 100 lots is a big size to start with is you have not traded futures before? the margin you would need will be very large, are you going to hold postions overnight? index arb what ftse dax etc? if you are doing index futures i would start very small, a 30 tick offside move in seconds in...

100 lots of which market..... have you traded futures before 100 lots on the dax is 2500 euro a tick 10 ticks off side and you will have no account left!!! good luck

INTJ

so you dont even need charts? what do you think are the best futures to scalp then?

Hi What kind of indicators do you think work well for scalping as it is such a micro environment, or it it all based on price action?

Im In!!!!! Let me know if you need any help organising the event,

how much does x trader cost?, can it bolt on to interactive brokers? i have used IB and Gni and Gni seem to be alot quicker to get my order in the system

A scalp depends on costs but generally the profit would be 1 tick or more and the loss would be 0. If it goes against you get out where you got in or change to a spread and get out of that at the same level. It is going wrong if you lose more than 1 tick. All about volume at a price. on the...

is iq feed with dtn reliable do you know? i have had esignal and i know i can trust this although sometimes esignal does not work a good when plugged into tradestation as it does by itself? i just do not want to sign up for iqfeed and it not to be exact any veiws comments would be greatly...