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I'm your size as well and have only found one chair that has been incredibly comfortable and withstood the test of time called the Concorde... http://www.backbenimble.com/new/?cont=%2fconcorde%2fconcorde%5fmain%2ehtm

FWIW... If I am following your strategy correctly, when a trade works you have by definition bought/sold near the low/high of the day. For one contract, why not take an average daily range and deduct say your stop amount to get a target. Although the market may have only gone against you say two...

takenoprisoners says... Marc Rich was a COMMODITIES trader but a real one. Making DEALS with countries for commodities you never heard of. I believe he had a great deal to do with starting the Crude Oil trading and eventuall ran afoul of the FEDS by trading WITH Iran against US foreign...

Or if the double cola doesn't get ya, the Ski will....

Luke makes a good point. My ex was born and raised in Raleigh. I'm a Californian but we lived in NYC. When we spent vacations with her family it was quite a difference in cultures. I found the south much more laid back but a bit "clubby". Family names carry weight there. They are very polite but...

Hey Ragin - Are you really down in swampland? I used to work college summers on oil rigs out of Houma. Still fondly remember the cajun parties with music & garbage cans of boiled crawdads.

Whitster - Quick question re: pit commentary. I am thinking of signing up but noticed they have several different flavors of SP commentary. Any feedback on best commentators or differences between them. thanks.

Don't know anything about Brainwave Generator. But it's kind of like the old zen saying, don't confuse the pointing finger with the direction. Give it a test run. If it works, one method is just as good as another.

There is plenty of research regarding brain wave entrainment using binaural beat frequencies. Simple machines like the Nova Pro 100 can induce altered states of consciousness. There are others but have played around with the Nova and found the technology impressive. You can pick from the five...

kut2k2 - I have only played around with them but have to agree. In my experience, they fared better as filters rather than triggers. In their defense however, I have known people in the past who claim to have used them successfully in automated trading.

You might want to consider some neural network software. Their attraction is that they can pull non-linear as well as linear relationships out of your data without requiring you to be up to your waist in algorithms. The software makes it fairly easy to create, train and test a multi-layer...

Don't know if this will help but I believe I read somewhere that you can use esignal EFS scripts to call an outside DLL (i.e. a trade triggers from the EFS script and then the script calls the DLL function to generate the trade). The DLL could then call the TWS API to enter the trade and create...

Haven't used metastock in years but it is easy to generate scans with its explorer. You can reference canned indicators with a very simple script language which can be run realtime. If you focus on just a few markets, you can use javascript in eSignal to accomodate fairly sophisticated...

Did plenty of time as a trader at a primary in NY. This is a common occurrence. Traders really don't have time for trainee's. They also often come from pedigree institutions and expect monster money and respect for the fact that they graduated. Hate to break it to them but it doesn't work in...

Have always assumed it would be a matter of time before BOTs give the online gaming industry a thorn in its side. In our own business, look at the success stories of IB (previously Timber Hill), O'Connor, Susquehanna, CRT, and even Moccatta Metals). Moccatta was the first to make institutional...