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Hey folks, wanted to post about the chat we're having Thurs. May 1st at 4:30pm in the Elite Trader Chat Room. FFastTrade partner and Chicago Mercantile Exchange member Rick Burgess will discuss how to capture an edge in the E-minis by: - Using fair value and forward pricing to determine...

I paid $30 bucks for a 30s edition of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. But it has no dust jacket. Anyone out there have an older copy with a decent dust jacket that wouldn't mind scanning it (two scans) at a real high resolution, and Emailing it to me? I'm kind of a geek about books that...

Hey folks, wanted to post about the chat we're having Thur. May 1st at 4:30pm in the Elite Trader Chat Room. FFastTrade partner and Chicago Mercantile Exchange member Rick Burgess will discuss how to capture an edge in the E-minis by: - Using fair value and forward pricing to determine...

The timing of this recent discussion couldn't be better as Vito Sisto, CEO of ECHOtrade will be joining us next week in the Elite Trader Chat Room. The chat will focus on the ECHOtrade methodology. Vito has a lot of experience working with traders: He was with Van Buren Securities prior to...

Taking your hands off the mouse/keyboard is a good suggestion. Focusing on posture is another. Sometimes you have to work at it. Make sure your hands on the keyboard are at a neutral position. I have a handout from the local university on this kind of stuff: distance of your eyes from...

Interesting to see this thread. I've thought of morphing my IRA into a swing style, paying attention to dividends. I tend to follow more stable stocks. A handful I've watched and held for years. I think I can play them 2 weeks to 2 months for 50 cents to 2-3 bucks. So one stock I might be...

Oh... with the Gann chat, you're clicking on the Host column. Because WD Gann isn't a company, he doesn't have a web page. That's normally where that link would take you-to a company web site. The column on the far left is the "Chat Topic". Click on that one for the chat log. André

If I can't attend chat can I view transcripts and how can I access them? You sure can, Peter. You can find a list of past chats at: http://www.elitetrader.com/ch/. Simply click on the links under "chat topic" for the chat log. André

I hope Andre or Baron posts the chat soon... It's up. We edited down the informal section. Folks were chatting for another hour and a half, so it took some time. It's a good read. Gann Theory Chat Transcript Thanks for doing it, Takeshi. André

AAPL fall hard today. Did you follow your plan and took a small loss? I. Got. Crushed. I did not have a hard stop in. And I wasn't here at the open. I have not managed the trade well. André

>> I traded at one time with a 9600 baud modem. Quotes were pretty good. Orders, of course in those days were done on the phone. Pre Web Days (stone age, 1991). << And you know, in 1991, 9600 was flyin'! I was still using 2400 because AOL didn't have a faster connection in my town. I've...

I'm not that sophisticated a trader. I look for patterns that repeat. If you look at a 2 month chart on AAPL, you might see what I see. I don't suppose anyone would care to define support to me. André

I'm thinking about that right now, Corvus. Especially for beginners, an ET FAQ might really help in understanding trading, but also in how to interact on ET, so that we don't get bogged down with newbie questions. André

Well, that's one way to look at it. Another might be to strive to keep the discourse higher. While one person can disrupt a thread, it only works if other people respond to them. I see several things regarding trader communities. One, if it's a smaller group of people who create their...

I'm long 100 shares AAPL @ 14.22 stop 14.10, goal 14.60+ in 2-3 days. André

I'm no patent attorney, either. But it's fairly easy to file a patent claim. You often get one, as previously mentioned, because the folks are so overworked. You don't' always have to be the first one using the technology. Sometimes, you simply have to be the first to claim it. The tricky...

Even better...share it live-realtime in one of the traders chat rooms on mIRC via private messaging. Ahem. Or, you could create a private room in ET Chat. I'd say it comes down to particulars. I have no problem saying I'm a swing trader who generally trades less active stocks, but solid...

Sounds like a musician's joke. What's a musician without a girlfriend? Homeless. Drummers get the worst of it, of course: One day, a tuba player wanted to torture the drummer behind him, so he hid one of the drummer's sticks. After looking around for a few minutes, with a frantic...

Folks, thanks for the thread. I haven't done much posting before when I've had an open position. When I saw this thread, I thought to myself that I would start. Yet for some reason, I was reluctant to do so with this example: 4/7 Buy 300 BPUR @ $3.23 goal of $3.75ish (stop $3.10?) 4/8...

Steve, in your example you're saying that you specify the two selling levels, one for profit, one for stop loss when you place the initial buy? André