sounds like you are talking about a retirement account where you take out 4%(which is the adjustment for inflation) or so a year to cover living expenses.
i forget where i read it, but apparently over a period of 30 years or so there is like ~20% failure rate due to volatility of your...
i searched his name on ET too but found nothing. that is why i started a post. from what i can tell he would go around stealing people's systems and them saying it is his own(the omni). I went into his chatroom and i didn't find any dissenting opinions(they all seem to be his lackeys). i have no...
yeah i actually read those pages, that is why I am asking . if you look at the dates on those, it was fives years ago, i was wondering if anyone has a recent opinion.
surf, you are just a cynical douchebag. if i was shilling for him, this is sure as hell not a positive light at all for him.
Otm-options, i am learning to trade futures from my friend. he has been doing this for a living for 20 years or so now. most of it is technical analysis based. he doesn't keep up with the online community of traders or any of the new people that has popped up so when i asked him about the above...
people learn by asking authority figures, it helps to stand on the shoulder of giants. I didn't even ask for market secrets or anything i was just asking if those people sucked.
you basically told me to fuck off in a lot of words.
I was asking if the specific people I listed are scammers or legit. I gave my opinion and I wanted to know if my opinions were wrong. I already know my opinions are ill informed, but you can be right even if you are poorly educated in a subject. You told me I have to be informed before I can...
dbphoenix, you are right. that is exactly why I am asking experienced traders to give me their educated opinions on the matter. it is like knowing there are landmines but not being able to detect all of them, i am asking the experts. If you are telling me to be an expert at finding landmines...
hey, it is my first post and i wanted to know what advice pro traders would have for a noob like me.
first of all, i have some mild experience with technical analysis and I happen to have a friend that trades for a living for about 20 years, so i am not completely lost, but i don't want to...