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Quote: Originally Posted by Brianharvey View Post Getting oversold L 1972 stops are for losers, remember :D

long 1970.25, full position, stop 1960

schizo has abandoned the thread, tbf. when's the last time he posted here?

I took a leaf out of your book, mfbreakout. Shorted at 10287 during the night (had a limit order in)......just exited at 10130 :D

thanks for that insight, Kid :cool:

Can't answer your question, but i am intrigued to know why you had great success when backed by others but not when you presumably traded your own money?

You flatter me , sir. I ain't that good , however :mad:

You only go for the jugular if you have conviction. If you are up 30%, you would bet bigger say 5-10% on a trade that you are convinced is going to win. Naturally you probably don't have too many of these trades appearing.

Soros now manages $25 billion, true. But he didn't start his career with $25 billion, he started the firm with $2 million. His remarks regarding going for the jugular is not based on his current $25 billion (how do you go for the jugular with $25 billion?), but from when he was managing far...

why is ES down so much? Very unusual at this time of the day.

The way to attain truly superior long-term returns is to grind it out until you’re up 30 or 40 percent, and then if you have the conviction, go for a 100 percent year. If you can put together a few near-100 percent years and avoid down years, then you can achieve really outstanding long-term...

Breaks it...they all do , Buffett stuck 40% of his portfolio into one stock at one point. Jim Rogers said when he was working with Soros, they were leveraged to the hilt on everything.

Why not?

well done, that bastard spike to 104 stopped me out of a good move...was looking for 102-103

stopped out of everything at 10400

Yes! I would like that. :cool: Edit: cash is good, too

1. Calculate how much risk you want to take , say 0.5%, 1%, 10% whatever of your portfolio. 2. Find the point or range where you will be wrong. You will be putting your stop loss there (mental or actual) 3. Find the point of entry where you will be entering the position. 4. Calculate the...

Lol, i found it funny!!!! :D Unfortunately, your humour was lost on Master Coli and the Star Wars chap

Mate, 1 car equals 1 contract :D

shorted another half unit 10375....not really a price i wanted, wanted 85 :(