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What techniques do floor traders use?

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Wall Street Warriors [s.01x01].avi - YouTube

Never knew this series was out,
Although some of the people are corny,
It does give a lot of different perspectives from "wallstreeters",
I think a lot of their opinions contradict one another because their jobs are different,
but altogether it's an entertaining watch

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Wall Street Warriors [s.01x01].avi - YouTube

Never knew this series was out,
Although some of the people are corny,
It does give a lot of different perspectives from "wallstreeters",
I think a lot of their opinions contradict one another because their jobs are different,
but altogether it's an entertaining watch

There were seasons 1 & 2. Season 3 was never released.

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Have you visited and read my entire "Floored" thread?


I just did and it was an amazing read! It also reinforced my believe in my trading method. I did not know I had some sort of floor trader mentality. Not the one where you know where the stops are but in a way of always thinking what is behind each and every market move, who is buying, who is selling, why are they doing this.

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I just did and it was an amazing read! It also reinforced my believe in my trading method. I did not know I had some sort of floor trader mentality. Not the one where you know where the stops are but in a way of always thinking what is behind each and every market move, who is buying, who is selling, why are they doing this.

As @wldman will surely attest to; You can take the trader off the floor, but you can't take the "floor" out of the trader.

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As @wldman will surely attest to; You can take the trader off the floor, but you can't take the "floor" out of the trader.

both a blessing and a curse. Especially true for the guys that can not adopt a trading personality and a rest of life personality. I evaluate everything from a cba perspective and look at risk reward...I also count my steps and look for fib patterns in everything from ceiling tiles to flower beds.

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Hey, tigertrader,

comparing the intraday price movement of the T-Bonds before electronic trading came with today, how would you say it changed?

Did it change at all?

Also, can someone explain me the limit down/up thing. If the market reached that point, the trading would stop completely for the day or could you still buy/sell for that price? T-bond dont have limits today as far as i know right?

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Was thinking about the trading pit today and got me thinking about this thread.

@tigertrader did you trade similarly in the bond pits as you do today using market internals trading multiple instruments at once? Do you prefer the pit over screen trading?

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