Recent content by xorrex

Isn't this website supposed to be where elite traders come to share ideas? So why was Jack Hershey banned and threads about him moved to the "Chit Chat" forum? Why is the moderator dgabgriel allowed to treat Jack so harshly? "BTW, ask him if the ET boot stuck up his ass is uncomfortable...

You have a problem named 'dgabriel'. Apparently he ejected Jack Hershey from your website, and can't stop gloating about it. He is destroying the credibility of your website. He needs to go, and he needs to publicly apologize for the following statements before he does...

dgabriel, your posts meet the criteria of 'problematic', why don't you moderate yourself? You sound like a 20 yr old on a power trip. Dumb.

"No beginning trader has any business playing with a simulator. If he is so undercaptalized that he can't afford to test his ideas with sample sizes, then he has no business being in the game in the first place." That's the biggest load of crap I've read in a long time. Everyone has to start...

I have 'scripts' to read to my broker, as I don't want to eat a big loss because something slipped my mind. I also have 'boxes' around my trades, so I always know where or when I am going exit by default.

You must have tried fire...hence 'phoenix' :cool:

For those who don't want to make papertrading more emotional can opt to make real trading less emotional, simply by resigning themselves to never taking their profits out of the market. If you can convince yourself of that, then trading real money becomes a bit closer to trading fake money. I...

You think not having an emotional attachment to your trade is a bad thing? Isn't that what everyone says is the goal? "Be like Mr Spock", they say. What you guys are really saying is, the emotional state you are in while papertrading is too superior to your normal emotional state. That...

I think Paper-trading provides two *real* benefits. 1) A safe way to learn the mechanics of trading. 2) A preliminary test for a trading methodolgy. The first is an obvious benefit, the second is not so obvious. The second effectively means that if a trader cannot make money...