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    Zen and The Art of Trading

    What about Poker rule 51, up and down the ladder. I'm collecting all the rules as interpreted by you into a word file to compliment the book. Thanks.
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    Reminiscences of a Stock Operator...

    in his wonderful book Wall Street Ventures and Adventures. He devotes almost a chapter about Livermore. The book is not available at amazon.com, but at traderpress: http://www.traderspress.org/detail.asp?product_id=174 On page 254 from this booK: Livermore says to Wycokff in 1910: I...
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    Zen and The Art of Trading

    Thanks Martys. The article below is the best one I've seen relating meditation to trading. Read the one where he says about "mental space": http://www.thestreet.com/comment/shrinkrap/10006792.html As to books, I constantly go back to A.Kiev's books. That's the one I go and read it again...
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    Zen and The Art of Trading

    Thanks Martys for this thread. Wondering, what's your or others opinion on this book, psychology of poker: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880685256/qid=1095889251/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4210670-5026312?v=glance&s=books Where author writes about not only understanding...
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    Zen and The Art of Trading

    It is about mind and body, 9/27/04 isssue: http://www.newsweek.com meditation, etc. article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6038622/site/newsweek/ Thanks
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    Change Your Attitude and Vocabulary!!!

    Re: 4)When you’re in a hole, the first thing you should do is STOP DIGGING! How true it is. Poker great Barbara Enright said about poker digging which can be applied to trading also. Her words: "Sometimes players let their ego get it the way. If they are losing, they will not stop until...
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    Looks Can Kill You: RAMOUTAR REPORT VOLUME 11

    The author has a website at: http://www.samuraitrader.com Like RAMOUTAR wrote, I have no connection with the author what so ever... Talking about books, my all-time favorite on psychology are: 21 irrefutable truths about trading by john Hayden (his new book on RSI being published...
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    IB TWS Frustration...pages deleted!

    If you are using stand-alone TWS, then folder: C:\Jts\dciijtglt needs to be saved as back-up. That's what I do once every few days. recently, when I lost my tws pages, I was able to recover by copying the folder back. If you are using web version of TWS, then C:\IBJts\dciijtglt is the...
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    Why should we reduce trade size when losing?

    One becomes a good trader if he/she is able to win by holding and adding to a winning position. For more, see Rule 2 at Phantom of the Pits: http://www.spytrdr.com/PhantomOfThePits.pdf Also, another quote: "You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few...
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    Sorry, if it came across that way. My intention was to share the truth that IB is the best broker so far. To me, IB is the fourth one I tried in so many years and I'm a happy customer. That's all. By acknowledging a good product and service publicly, I'm sure motivating IB Mgmt. and...
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    In my case, I know exactly the person I spoke to and he was extremely professional and courteous. Don't know, whether it is appropriate to mention the name here... I Love IB. Regards, et_user
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    Recently, I had a bad fill for NYSE market order. IB was very professional, checked time and sale, went to NYSE, got my price corrected. What a professional job IB did. Thanks IB. Appreciated. Did anyone notice, TWS has been rock as solid for the past month or so... Thanks, et_user
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    IB Salvatore, Thanks for your response. I'll send e-mail like you suggested. I do not want to list stocks for shorting here, some might not like if the stock is their favorite. You guys/gals have a great product. As to CSR it does not bother me a bit, I can deal with it because I'm Dad...
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    Happy New Year to all. Thanks for the tip on stop method selection. Took care off it instead of default method. IB got some sharp programmers, what a beauty TWS software is. I do not understand what more folks want from a broker? IB provides excellent interface, fast execution and for a...
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    I Love Interactive Brokers

    Time to thank IB for their products and services. Don at IB is very helpful (thanks Jon for providing the contact name). He is very prompt, professional and courteous. I've been trading for more than few years. It is so amazing to see IB execution. I wish I made the switch sooner than this...
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