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jmp470
San Antonio, TX
 
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Greetings All,
I'm new to the site today, May 3rd, 2019 and will start by introducing myself and give a little back story. I'm an ex-individual stock trader, who learned some very horrible habits trading stocks, but, was lucky enough to make some decent money.

Since then, I transitioned to futures, where I got my butt kicked! For numerous reasons, but, bottom line, many times I was to eager to trade and tried to predict what would happen, versus what the futures were actually doing. I've lost my threshold of money that I was going to lose, so I'm done with futures for now.

However, the lessons I learned in futures where awesome and will help me as I transition once again back to stocks.

Each trading vessel has its own pros and cons for me: Stocks win out for now, since I'm ok holding them for a swing trade. Where as, futures I didn't like to hold overnight or longer because I could lose a profitable trade while I was away. It could just be more of a psychological thing for me.

In the end, I will head back to futures or will augment my stock trading once I get my account back to where I want it.


My question is: I dropped TDAmeritrade yesterday. I've been looking at NT, but, I need to learn more about what is actually needed to trade with NT.

I'm now shopping for a new trading platform for futures and stocks. Any suggestions?

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 TheShrike 
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What made you drop TDA? I've used them in the past and didn't have any problems with them.

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jmp470
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TOS was slow on my computer. It would drop my frame rate to 20 FPS. And I have a top notch computer, so it was driving me nuts.

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