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I understand who is on the other side of my winning trades. See you in the markets. Bring that "BGZ isn't a short" strategy, and bring your capital.

Absolutely. I've taken to shooting synthetic adrenaline during the off hours.

I'm not sure what a "goer" is, but if it means BAD IDEA, then I agree. How is that a trend following strategy? If it was, then the long positions would be sold off and replaced with short positions when the market turned down. Then, when the market turns up, the shorts are replaced with...

What are your favorite sources for overnight action news? I use various sources, none of which are comprehensive, and it seems more of a chore every morning to suss out the overnight action. I'm interested in: Overseas markets (and specifically, commodities) Currency (mainly USD)...

Actually, I was talking about Chrome OS, rather than Chrome browser running on an existing OS. My understanding is that the OS will rely on whatever web aplet is utilized by the site. Also, I don't use a high powered platform. I use Scottrader and I have major problems with Java running on my...

[B] I agree that this is the key. Every interday retracement robs the position. An example for a 2x fund in a long position: Day 1 - a $10 buy corelates to 100% of the underlying value. Day 2 - a 10% retracement of the underlying reduces the corelation (and the position) to 80%. Day...

I don't see UNG as a good nat gas play. The fund also has interests in crude--which trades under a different dynamic. It also has an interest in distillates which is experiencing a record surplus at this time (NOT contango, a simple surplus). This makes for a difficult fundamental analysis...

I'm curious about Chrome. I'm a light-duty trader and I don't use a powerful resident application, so it might work well for me. I'm making an effort to migrate to the cloud for my non-trading tasks such as abandoning Outlook and Word. Chrome could serve my long term goals in that respect. One...