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I have been receiving gobs of SPAM since July 15th, 2006. I've had three accounts with them over the years and I use a separate email address for each of them @myowndomainname.com. All three of them started getting SPAM at the same time. I never ever even use those addresses for outgoing...

Darkhorse, Thanks for posting that. While everything in it is common sense, following the principals of it seem to escape many of us. Ego, impatience, and greed often wreck what time and experience are trying to hand to us. That's a very interesting paragraph. On the outside looking in...

You are right, but my answer to that would be that the trading masses don't care about how people shop on Friday, so it's not affecting their trading behavior, so it isn't a useful thing for me to try to figure out. And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'm some great social psychologist...

I don't think I can disagree that large time frames are more predictable. I can say that when I make a trade I'm looking for everything to line up. Here's today's example: Long time frame (forest) I've been trying to watch the money rotation in the sectors. With the rising interest...

Like in anything it helps to have realistic goals. For those that have goals set: 1) Do you have a daily or weekly goal in terms of money earned or percentage gained? 2) Is it based on percentage or a dollar amount? 3) If you don't mind, how much capital are you working with, and...

Ok, these are some honest questions and comments, please don't take them otherwise. I'm participating in the discussion mostly to clarify and focus my own strategies or change them if necessary. You say you have to be "damn fast" to take advantage of it. Why? I don't see it that way...

Like other people mentioned it's the latency that is the most important, and satellite service is horrible. Latency can be affected by many things that the average consumer can't compare ahead of time. Hops between you and your endpoint can play a roll, but even if you are 4 hops away you...

Playing a shorter time period on a longer cyclical trend makes sense. Thanks for your answer.

I know it's lame to quote myself, but I want to add, that because of human behavior and not randomness someone could most likely write a system to make money off of the very predictable ultimate failure of any indicator that has been established on a particular stock.

I didn't say that human behavior is unflawed, I said it was predictable. It's those predictable flaws that allow some people to make money in the market while a lot of people lose money. There will be people that want to hop on the bandwagon even if it's too late. I'd suggest that the...

Hmmm, I'll throw this one out there... I will bet you any amount of money that there will be at least one more post to this thread after this one. I'm predicting that a human out there somewhere will respond either to someone else's post or perhaps even this one.

What's next? I'm not asking to look for free handouts, not am I asking to be inflammatory. I guess I'm wondering how you'll pick the next sector and how you'll time your entries into that sector. If you were long in those sectors of course you made money, but how do you personally suggest...

Wow, great thread. I'm quoting this comment out of all the great ones, because doesn't this hit the nail on the head? You mention things (the market and others) are random, but here you state that this thread will surely be referenced? Isn't there at any post the possibility that it will...

Here's the scoop, I've tried to read through a lot of the old posts for tips, but a lot of the advice can be good or bad depending on how you are trading. It makes it tough to weed through the things that won't work for my specific situation. My mom made me buy stocks when I was eight. I'm...