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    Does anyone know of Prop Trading Firms that offer a base salary?

    Does anyone know of a UK or European based Prop firm that pays a base salary. I am already in with a Prop house in London - it is going well but its slow progress. I can imagine it could take me some time to be a consistantly profitable trader - It would be fantastic if i could have a base...
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    HELP: Forex support and Resistance lines???

    I would like to know where / how other Forex traders place support lines and resistance lines for day trading. I was previously a Bund trader and would esp use OHLC lines, but with Forex being a 24hr market i am finding it hard to place OHLC lines on my charts. Thanks for reading this and for...
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    Cost Of Living!!!!

    Hi John, I do have a number of strategies, but I know that putting them into practise and turning them into a profit even if you have back tested etc is very different, paper trading and back testing does not automatically produce profitable trading, I was a trader (not prop in a previous...
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    Cost Of Living!!!!

    Thanks for reading this, I am a prop trader in the Schatz. Recently started (2 lots at mo). My biggest constraint is supporting my living costs whilst trading. I believe it is realistic to not count on having any money to take out for 6 months to a year. Hopefully I can turn a plus P&L before...
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    CY Group members? Anyone from T2W

    Hi Folks, Are you Trading through CY Group, can you help advise me if they are a good Prop firm to go with?? I was previously a prop trader with REFCO in London (5yrs ago). I left for personel reasons but for the past year have been looking to get myself back into an arcade or join a Prop...
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    SW London/Surrey meet: 12th October 2008

    New guy to come along Hi Folks, I am new guy returning to Futures trading, was a Bund trader at REFCO some yrs back, am now looking to trade at home with my own funds and would like to meet up with guys in similar positions to dicsuss strategies, tools used and general shooting the breeze. If...
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    Spread Betting Margins

    HI Shark, I am a Technical Day trader who has developed a nice system to trade in the 30yrs US Treasuries (moves nice and slow for me). The system that plays trades with risk around 15 points v 22 reward, always 1v1.5. My questions is, I want to leverage trade e.g. Futures or Spread bet, I...
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