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probably near the top. isnt that interesting, one firm takes your money all at once, and others nickle and dime you to death. as if trading wasnt hard enough.

btw they are near the bottom in customer assets. no wonder. http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@financialdataforfcms/documents/file/fcmdata0113.pdf

LOL, only a moron like yourself would be happy to pay more and never question anything. please give me your address so i can send over some door to door junk salesman. im sure velocity is in business to make sure their clients are getting good service. right, why didnt they send an email...

it appears that velocity no longer advertises on this site so they probably are doing shitty in terms of revenue.

money doesn't just disappear in brokerage accounts. audit trails are very detailed. (unless of course you had money with mfglobal)

nodoji is one of the few that has been very generous with actually answering questions without any obfuscation. i have to commend her for that, you simply cant find that anywhere. mostly you get answers that have nothing to do with your question but nodoji gets very specific and actually...

the secretive nature of trading is the most frustrating part of the entire business. and im not talking about trading strategies, im simply talking about performance. i dont care what coca colas recipe is but i can clearly see that they are selling a ton of soda. for example, al brooks...

still no official explanation.

hey slope, thanks for your comments. to be honest, im not sure if my results would improve but to me its important to get enough signals to generate sufficient amount of trades as to let the math work. i'd rather take 30 trades a week with a 60% chance of success, than take 10 trades with an...

interesting, its good to see HOW someone goes about defining relative values and how you go about designing a plan that leaves no room for this 'looks' ok but.. to me, until i get specific like you described, ill always hesitate to take a trade, even if i think it looks great. by the way...

take that 20 bar pattern from earlier in the thread that i like and think is statistically significant. how do i code that? its never going to look exactly like that again.

so how do i define 'strong' in a relative way? right now, i just eye ball it (which leads to hesitation because eyeballing is not defining in a way i can say i HAVE to act here), i say, ok the bars have been "small" all day so strong breakout would take on a new meaning than if the bars are...

your friend probably hasn't internalized how little control we have in what goes on in life, even in our own decisions let alone others. have you ever thought about why you did something dumb? for example, what if you decided to study harder on that exam in high school that you failed...

i think anger is generally a product of 'our belief in the degree of control we have over our lives'. so for example, i may get angry at someone that says something to me that is pretty disturbing or stupid. like if someone said, 'your daughter is a little whore' or whatever.. i believe we...

but i only know its a bull flag in hindsight, at the moment of entry i really have no idea and since i have no idea i want to enter on the first picture because i feel that particular setup is strong as hell. the second setup is weak imo (very close to 50/50).

it looks similar in the way that if i were looking for my lost yellow labrador, i might turn around look at a golden retriever that i spotted up the road for a minute to make sure thats not him, but i would not look very hard if i spotted a poodle up the road. the spike is there - but its...

yes, as you stated, its not the same, its just similar. and it highlights my point of never taking any trades because i cant find 2 that are the same. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3765911>

similar but notice how much difference, the spike is not as strong as seen buy the bear bars and reversal bars, the flag is all overlap, the number of pushes are not clear. it did not form a double bottom like in the prev setup, its above the ema, the signal bar is different, blah blah my point...

same thing. i see what may be a defined setup that i like, but there is always something wrong with it that makes me pass on it because there is a bar or 2 that changes the defined look (usually because volatility changes or the character of the market changes for example goes from stong trend...