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    Impatience

    Try this: *** SELF DISCIPLINE *** Mom and Dad are not picking up after us any more. Time to pull up our socks. ;-P
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    Tell me about North Carolina

    Aahhhh, Hurricanes. Cat 1 is no small event - no? I lived inthe Cariibean for a few years when I was but a boy, we got a Cat 3. Now, THAT is a storm! (Actually was scared!) Today however, the only Hurricanes around carry Lord Stanley's Cup!! AND YES! I WAS THERE!!! Talk about once...
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    Tell me about North Carolina

    You are correct on the restuarants! Durham has some top-flight feederies. I have not been to Michael Deans - heard of it, I'll have to try it out.
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    Tell me about North Carolina

    I moved out of Upstate NY to Raleigh about 18 months ago - best move I ever made. Raleigh is the biggest small town around. Bigger than Pittsburgh, but without all the big town amenities - for now. It has a very nice small town family feel Taxes - 8% top rate on income. Real Easte taxes...
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    Brand new traders..........read this

    Thanks Cheese.:confused: Since that post I have made great strides each week. If it continues for more than 6 months - I'll be on my own. Right now, 63% of trades are winners. I'd like higher, but money mgmt is keeping me quite happy. Cheese, Keep up the great posts. Emotional responses...
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    Best solution for novice players

    Have a look at MBTrading. Great!
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    Market Code Crack'd?

    An aside.... Didn't Jesse blow his brains out in a bathroom stall?? Flash in the pan. I never could understand why people hold him up as a model. I'd rather make half a mil a year simply, than roller coaster like that guy. Nothing to emulate in my opinion.
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    strategy to trade future.

    Man. You are something else! Great Work!!!
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    Any "accidental" career traders out there?

    That was a graet story - THANKS!! I have recently begun the journey myself. Just about 3 months in after A LOT of homework first. I earned a few things - First - I can learn from others. THis education is cheap, yet priceless. The losing that happens so often has the same few reasons...
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    Cost Basis Calc

    As I read it in IRS Publication 550 regarding wash sales and cost basis calculations that: If I buy 100 shares of stock (or an SSF for that matter) at $100 a share ($10,000) Sell is at a loss at $90 a share ($9,000) and then, Buy 100 shares back less than 31 days later at $95 dollars...
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    Brand new traders..........read this

    New lurker here.... Duck (and others) - thanks. You've confirmed pretty much what I have self taught myself over the past two months in my personal trial by fire. My plan is to continue to learn from the thoughtful posts here and shorten the curve. There are four levels of...
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    McNealy forced to stand down

    Scott is a little too late - again, a state he has been in since 1999. Now a little man who ran a 35 person outfit is running this garbage scow. Maybe he can turn it around. Nah. He needs to 'investigate' now the company he has been working for for a number of years to see what is up...
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