Recent content by dbTrader

Hey all - since I haven't posted in forever - why not make a prediction for where I see this trend ending ... and the beginning of the bear market.... ....12085 and it will occur in the next 10-15 trading days. :cool:

I agree with everyone on this debate. Excel is the most over used application in the financial world. It takes a few turns for people with an IQ over a hundred to get the hang and start running with it. Visual Basic for Applications requires a little bit more patience and thus weeds out a...

The first issue in the Challenge is to sort the % Change - not too hard using the LARGE function and incrementing the kth largest value as the row number increases. To find the Stock Ticker that corresponds to that % Change is more challenging.... I used an array formula that played off...

MMM: I decided that I was going to tackle this without VBA - just to prove that I still RULE when it comes to Excel. this uses array formulas that need to be copied down as you add data ... I also have this sheet on Manual Calc -- F9 to get it to work if you add more data and then copy the...

Hey -- For all you Excel heads - I am too tired to think out a nifty array formula or functions that could do this - VBA is my bag -- here's the solution (I believe) in Excel XP - probably work down to Excel 97 as it isn't too fancy. The N value goes in J1 and you press "Run". The code...

Its all in your ability to execute - your $1500 tuition was already due and payable when you posted your first thread. As I said then - the thread was loaded with b.s. about your decision to trade 5 contracts and not about the real issues. I think I and other mature traders could have helped...

Hi, I thought it was from this thread that I began looking at breadth indicators, VIX,TRIN, advance/decline, a little differently. What I now do is look at each in the context of their Moving Averages, and some oscillators. This has been very helpful in seeing the resolve of the market in...

funky - great thread - I like the support the folks are giving you and wish to add my own. If you think about it, scaling in and out of a trending position mimics the market itself. If this method helps you keep your finger straight on the market's pulse without getting so panicked...

The advice requested was for the best future to trade. Why does everyone get so hung up on size? There is so much else that could go into this thread. Dominic - how about some more details about what you plan to do here. Are you going to be a discretionary trader or do you have a system...

I hope you remember to rest - that will be important as well - watching the screen all day trading the Eminis is taxing on your brain, your eyes... Recommend some psych books - Dr Elder's Trading for a Living Mark Douglas's Trading in the Zone Have fun :cool:

Steve, this talks right to me -- it is so relevant. I am sure most will see their own fears manifesting in these 4 forms. I agree with Hype - a mechanical system is the best way for the trader to take much of the psychology out of the picture. You would have to be clinically dead for it...

I think the answer lies somewhere in the ET forums - and I will guess for you if you don't feel up to the task of searching .... the syncmaster has a much higher contrast ratio than the other 191T. I once was looking at the Samsung site and at vendor site and noticed that Samsung was showing...

If you feel you will need to reformat to stay clean .... why not use 2 hard drives --- keep the OS on one and the other stuff on the second - mainly all the crap we download, intentionally or not from web browsing, downloading freeware, etc. The second disk can be reformated without...

What? You believe ET would be worth $50/month to newbies? But you wouldn't pay for it? I am trying to guess what you mean here - there is the possiblity of multiple messages/opinions. IMO - ET doesn't have the signal to noise ratio that would make it worthwhile as a pay for access site -...

Maybe the issue is more global than just the effect on our little eMini accounts. Margin borrowing appears to be what is fueling the bull market as of late. Increasing margins across all exchanges may temper the bull until real money flows back into the markets. And I doubt we'll see any real...