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On the flip side, the American method means many people (almost 50 million) have no insurance. Which means many are uncovered against tragedies like heart problems, cancers, sever burns or other very expensive things. Their health plan is "hope and pray nothing hits my family members...

are you an alias of crgarcia? Constantly starting shock threads (of minimal value) and seeing the reactions MODS - can you check whether peil and crgarcia are the same IP???

You probably wouldn't follow suggestions anyway. But, I suggest you make a loose schedule. Your trading time. Your email/phone call time. Your research time. Your read a book/newspaper/magazine (web OR paper based) time. Your tv time. Your family time. Your go out and buy needed...

Simply wrong. You cannot just pick stocks and expect them to go down or up and then lock in a profit. The market has a huge number of things happening. Your scenario has no compelling reason to occur any more than other scenarios within a probability space. So over a long period of time, you...

actually, Pinot Noir from cold regions like NY State are very high.

but most backtests are one of a huge number that a "trader" applied. And they find one or two that "worked". That is still curve fitting regardless of your points. And few people do a serious walkforward test with some of the data. Without this, almost every backtest is irrelevant for...

you should have stopped there...

Or more likely, the peculiarities of the market at certain times in history. That is often why backtesting fails into the future. But backtesting IS good for predicting the past.

the conventional wisdom says, that all the opinions here will have no impact on the price fo gold. No one "knows" where it will be next week. They guess, and the ones who are accidentally right crow about their predictions. Stick to trading, not being an economist.

"Resveratrol Ultra is trying to spread the word on the miracle powers of Resveratrol."

sorry Monty, but no one has ever tested even MOST of the residents of any one state. AND remember, a lot of the southerners are retiring people from the Snow Belt. Not to mention, some states are wealthier and some are poorer. Do children of Mississippi have the same choices as the children...

that is still called curve-fitting. it is more likely that the "trader" ran something on a bunch of instruments, and focuses on the ones that has "a great history."

I will tell that anyone who needs to spam the forum against the TOS to sell his books because he cannot afford the advertising rate, probably has little to say about making $$$ trading, ya know what I mean?

On the flip side, is the steady stream of lemmings (whoops, newbie trader wannabes) who come to places like Elitetrader, who want a system for no more than $200 that is guaranteed to make at least 500% annually with minimal risk. Maybe the "gurus" and the "newbies" deserve each other...

Statistics. Just because something happened, has little to no bearing whether it will happen again. One occurrence is completely irrelevant. 30 occurrences is usually considered the bare minumum for an event to have any predictive value on something else.

I have used accountants without any issues. You start with ensuring they are a CPA, you have an intial contact, and get some references. and you check the BBB to see if there complaints. But any accountant is far better than anonymous posts on a board. It is like someone charged with armed...

you are sort of a poster child for newbie traders. There is a reason that 95%+ fail. it si about LONGTERM profits that make a successful. I don't consider someone as making money after 6 months as successful. The "Risk of Ruin" will hit almost everyone. It is a matter of WHEN rather than...

his comment was not that bad. you however, have a pretty bad attitude, far worse than what you accuse him of.

just one more reason to trade liquid currency futures. Along with funds being segregated and getting away from forex brokers who are less than honest with their customers' trades.

Again ( I have said this about 3-4 times before. Quit your bank. Join a credit union. Banks consider their customers as farmers consider milk cows.