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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    Still have to answer this one... Just out of fun, CNBC today isn't that much fun anymore LOL. So, very simple: Why whould you care about the view of girls if you get AAA-chicks??? I honestly don't care my friend... And just still something: Normally the guy who doesn't care gets the best ones LOL.
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    Yeah. Only US, I mean only trading us-hours and us stock exchanges. @other "questions": you understand if I am not going to answer them - right guys? Just have a few, so one thing I forgot to add about routing is that I often use *ALO-ECNs to make sure that I only add liquidity if I trade...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    Alright, gonna try to be online every day and answering questions etc. But we will see... Tried this brother public stuff several times and it always got killed after some days... But gonna try my best to keep it going. See u guys maybe 2mw.
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    Re: tools LOL - goooooooood one brother ;-). But it is funny, you know, some friends of mine are so called BBs and most of them don't have a single digit bf... Sixpack is the ultimate challenge, therefore in my opinion it is very similar to trading. Amost all people I know who trade for a...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    @Sir: before I get to my HIIT-session ;-) : I just mentioned this because it is something I do for staying focused and feeling observed by other people, I mean those were the reasons I started it some years ago, to be honest: the reasons were 100% egoistic ;-). Today I just spend in it maye 1-2...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    alright, this is gonna be the last one... paper trading: Forget about it... Better trade only a 5K account then paper trading. You learn trading by actually putting trades on and especially by losing money. In this business you first have to learn to lose money before becoming able to earn and...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    and the very last one today regarding acceptable commission fees, routing etc.: Pretty simple ;-) - your net tading result at the end of the day should not be much different from your brut trading result ;-). In this example commission fees, SEC fees, routing costs etc. should be all together...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    tools quick look at some tools I used or use to trade (just mentioning the ones I found or still find a good choice): execution platforms: sterling, Laser, Lightspeed, Tekion ANalysis: Eginal, Tradestation Scanning Software: trade ideas, or use tradeideas.com for free EOD scans or finviz.com...
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    ask all you wanna know about trading for a living

    Alright guys ;-) Gonna shortly explain what this thread is about and who I am etc. The title tells u already: ask anything you know about trading for a living. I trade for a living since about 12 years now, have an online live trading room for my friends, worked 3 years for a propdesk in NYC...
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