Recent content by jaronimo

There are lots of vehicles that get great fuel mileage, you just can't drive them in the US. Mini Cooper has a 65MPG diesel. Cant buy it in the US. Why? I was in Italy a couple of months ago, drove this little Fiat Panda, it gave me ridiculously high miles per gallon. Drove it for 8...

Only the government would be stupid enough to give these guys 50 billion. Ford sucks. They had the number 1 selling vehicle in the USA, the ford taurus, and what did they do? they stopped building it so they could focus on full size pick-ups and huge SUVs. These guys are brilliant, sure...

True. If she is the VP, I bet Obama won't live to see year two of the presidency.

What time frame are you using? When you get down to the small time frames you get a lot of noise.

That could be one of the most important thoughts ever posted on this site. Most books that talk about technical analysis leave out the very important prerequisite that step one is understanding price action.

I bought an external hard drive enclosure, about $45. Then I bought a 250 gig hard drive, about $65. The hard drive slips into the enclosure, has its own power supply, and it connects to your PC with a USB or SATA cable. Hook it up, the PC recognizes it, format the drive, and then copy...

Wow, lot of negativity towards TS here. Some seem to like it plenty. Is there anyone in between? Seems like you love it or hate it. Like I said I use it and like it. It has plenty of great features. I don't scalp hundreds of times a day, I usually do one to maybe a handful of trades in a...

I like it. I don't trade "sub 250 ticks", but do many futures trades very short-term. Usually works very well. I have had the data go away for 5-10 minutes during very heavy markets twice in the past 6 months. Luckily I was not in a trade I was "babysitting" and it did not effect me. it...

I receive an email statement every trading day. I don't remember doing anything special, the emails just arrive. I also get a monthly statement emailed to me.

Easy. Screentime. You have to watch the markets till you start to see things that make sense. Try to understand why its happening. Learn to read volume. And always remember, nothing works every single time. Your edge will only give you a better probability so you can take the trade with...

Remember back a number of years ago when the average American became an expert on tech stocks? Its a sign.

How did you design and test your system? You don't know if it has positive expectancy? Are you running a random system? Maybe I am misunderstanding your comments, but why would you design a system unless it was based on some kind of positive expectancy that you have already observed in...

I am reading The Nature of Risk So far its pretty good. Justin Mamis talks about price risk versus information risk. Good stuff and it makes a lot of sense.

Its a great book. Do you need it to be a successful trader? Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on where you are starting from. Some people like to make mistakes on their own, others like to read about and avoid the mistakes others make. No book will hand you the holy grail. Thats different...