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    Bollinger Bands and Straddles

    Hey guys, So I was thinking about some new strategies to keep things exciting. So, I know that some ppl have used Bollinger Bands to predict when price is about to move and then put in Straddles when the BBs are greatly contracted. Taking the NDX as an example. The last week of july, NDX...
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    Any Advisorys Services Profitable?

    So, it seems like someone with a moderately profitable advisory service could generate additional income by starting one of these. However, the field seems very unregulated...no need for qualified investors or anything. So, how would one start such an advisory service and make sure that future...
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    98% of Traders Fail? Says Who...?

    Also...japanese housewives who trade forex...do they count?
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    98% of Traders Fail? Says Who...?

    Yeah, what does that mean? I tried daytrading 1 summer in college a decade ago and gave up cuz I didnt want to wake up at 6am (west coast) and preferred to sleep in and party and go to classes that summer instead...but I now have a variety of investment vehicles from longterm...
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    Trading is a Business

    There are clear barriers to entry to becoming a doctor or lawyer or scientist or ironworker or architect or whatevers that do not exist in becoming a daytrader (standardized education, licensing, formalized apprenticeship). In fact, you do not need a college degree or even a high school degree...
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    Then & Now, Starting over,Sort of

    Some people here poo-poo paper trading (like reading an army manual in your living room vs. being in Iraq), but I think it is an excellent place to start and test your systems. Speaking of which, develop a system first...don't f' around hoping to fall on an awesome system. There are a bunch of...
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    CUIL to impact GOOGLE ?

    well, your site does meet the porn test
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    CUIL to impact GOOGLE ?

    Site is down now btw
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    CUIL to impact GOOGLE ?

    Cuil sucks. According to Cuil.com, there is no such thing as asian porn on the internet. If you can't find a single asian porn website on the internet, your search engine is clearly not very good at finding stuff.
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    Ways to delay buying back vertical spreads?

    Usually I try to sell put vertical spreads after recent upticks of IVs, but as the past couple weeks have demonstrated...the IV could just keep going higher and higher. In such instances, even when you think you're pretty safe at a certain distance, I would go out even further so you make...
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    Is Investing in China Partially Pie in the Sky?

    I once heard a VC give a talk about doing business in Shanghai. He said that when investors go to Shanghai to invest, they like to sit across the Huangpu RIver and stare at the Bund and see the bright lights and the tall shiny buildings, but that that wasn't the real Shanghai or China...the real...
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    How many of you make over 100k/day regularly day trading?

    Nah, it ain't Don...unless Don is 29, with no college education but a supposedly "voracious" reader and "semi-pro" poker player (whatever that is). Yeah, it is West LA and he is likely overexagerating...but he does say he avgs $100k/day on the days that he daytrades when he isn't playing...
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    How many of you make over 100k/day regularly day trading?

    So, I am not a day trader...solely do option trades that are usually held 2-5 days so not too familiar with what kind of capital and expectancies ppl have to day trade full time. But a friend of mine, her new boyfriend told me and my wife that he avgs. 100k/day day trading in addition to...
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