how many day traders are there in the US?
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1 here... the answer really depends on how you define a daytrader.
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lots of ppl man...\njust go look\n\nmore than 50000 ppl sell cards.
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There are several US option exchanges:  the CBOE, Amex, Philadelphia, Pacific, Intercontinental, Boston (the BOX), New York, Nymex.  Major options usually trade simultaneously on several exchanges.\n\nOption orders for persons outside the US trading US options through an online brokerage registered in their country of residence are executed in the US by jitney services subcontracted to their brokerage.  Usually, neither the individual investor nor his local brokerage can specify which exchange the order will be routed to.  The jitneys control the routing.  This is why it's irrelevant for the outside-US option trader to be concerned with which exchange, etc.\n\nThere are ancient & complex problems associated with routing of option orders but the bottom line is that these can definitely be tolerated.\n\nDon't quite understand what you mean by offline trading.  If you mean telephoning a live representative to place each order in the UK, the commissions will eat you alive.  My guess is that the number of online brokerages operating from the UK that offer deep-discount commissions for US options trading is limited.  To further encumber these trades with expensive agent-handled commissions would not be economical or efficient.\n\nYahoo finance presents option tables for each company that has options.  Their tables are not always accurate, but serve to offer a general profile of option trading at a particular point in time in the US.  They are probably using B/A (bid/ask) quotes from OPRA, the options pricing authority.  This will amalgamate quotes from the different exchanges - more or less - since arbs work any opportunities for arbitrage between the different exchanges.
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I am assuming you mean the NYSE.\n3114 in US.\n 199 Europe.\n  90 Canada.\n  56 Caribean/Bermuda/Pueto Rico.\n  88 Latin America.\n  16 Middle East Africa.\n  86 Asia/ Pacific.
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According to an article from 2003, 5,000 people spend their days and nights on the streets of San Francisco.\n\nA more recent article (March, 2005) puts the figure at more than 6,200
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Ususally 4-5 every day. People like you and I keep Satrbucks in buisness!
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It depends a bit on your timescale of trading, a day trader wouldn't use the same programs as an end-of-day trader.\n\nMetastock and Tradestation are supposed to be the best, but expensive.\n\nI use Stockwiz for French stocks and end-of-day trading. It's completely programmable, which is what I wanted, but the programming language is somewhat primitive.\nBut it's free.\n\nhttp://www.stockwiz.com/
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an enormous number..!!!\ncalculator gave up
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I found this -- perhaps it'll help.\n\nThe information looks a bit dated, but should provide enough detailed data to answer your question.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/2006pr/04/ft920/
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Work for a professional trading house ( ie Propietary Trading) there are many in NY and Chicago. Chicago has the most successful traders. If you take a retail oriented day trading course they will only waste your time. Think about it - if these daytrading teachers were so good, why dont they just trade. In Prop firms, the teachers are trading with you and you learn a way to scalp and make money.
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You mean Deutche Borse?  It depends on the stock but I've never had a problem there.  Clearing and settlement have been roughly similar to what I get for London or New York stocks.\n\nGo check www.clearstream.com.  That gives the days for different types of assets.
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The stock symbol in the U S is NTDOY.  Currently trades at $28.41.  8 U S ADRs equals 1 Japanese share.
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Probably from 2AM - 11AM Eastern time.  You hit the London busy hour and the NY busy hour.  A lot of number releases such as the NFP fall within the time period too.  Busy generally means tighter spreads, as opposed to Asian hours.\n\nAverage pips depends on how you're trading.  There's no fixed average.
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Day-trading.  All you need is a computer and an internet connection.  I'm guessing you have both!
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I do some day trading using TD Ameritrade Apex. They are VERY helpful and have very fast executions. You must have a lot of knowledge before day trading since it is risky and you can lose all your money within minutes. As of right now, I have the command center up and I am already down $41.00 today. It's been very volatile today, I had a gain of $20.00 this morning and I almost had a loss of $90 for a couple of seconds.
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Very common\ngive it 3 days.
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do you mean my answer 1M in 167 trading days?\n\nYou may contact me by e-mail vp_invest@yahoo.c..