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Acrary, those are impressive #'s considering the crappy market lately. Is this type of approach profitable in choppy conditions or can it still be profitable in the occasional 2-3 day trends that rarely show up?

acrary: could you shed some light on why/how you determine to increase size as opposed to reducing? One would think that if conditions are less than favorable, then reducing the #contracts/shares would appear to be the thing to do. Thanks!

Ditch, what you're saying is the same as someone who's just won $5000 on slot machine #58 (the one waaay in the back at Harrah's) and then going home and telling all your friends that they should all go play on that machine because *LATELY* it paid out good dough). I know you mean well but only...

Acrary, very, very true. I trade some 30 variations of 5-6 systems and, frankly as a whole they're all under water for the last 4 mos. Those figures are even more pronounced in the small and midcap indexes. The "rush" to either buy or sell appears to have gone away, rendering a lot of...

No offense man, but with your level of knowledge, I'd worry more about capital LOSSES. Of course, if you feel like gambling and buy all the puts/calls your account allows and get lucky, well that is NOT trading. One can pretty much accomplish the same in Vegas. Also, if you go the option...

What are you talking about? That's NOT a 200% return! Its a return on DRAWDOWN, which let's say you had to maintain 3x in order to be certain of withstanding a more severe DD and in systems it usually happens, then your return would be more like 66% which probably works out to 10% a year on your...

You hit the nail right on the head!

If you have a bad system, money management is not going to fix it. In order for anyone here to critique/offer help you should also disclose what security(ies) or index it is designed to trade, and also paste a trade station performance summary to start with.

Welcome to trading. Its only easy and extremely profitable for beginners and vendors. The rest of us have a little more difficulty than it usually appears at first glance. It ain't gettin' any easier either.

You didn't get the bulletin? Arca is only designed to break down when volume/volatility is high. That's when the big money shuts arca down and keeps you out of the loop. Things are relatively calm today.:D

Yeah, you and 99% of the general public. You must be smokin' some reeaally strong stuff, 'cause its blowin' everywhere!

Tea, I taut you was related to one 'a dem Sopranos.:D

A lot of things that were *successful* up 'til 2000 ain't exactly as successful after. Good luck with most of those strategies.

ETF's are even worse for above strategy because of bid/ask spreads which are HUGE in your "small, obscure" example. Coupled with the less-trendiness of indexes/funds of late and sorry, but ain't gonna work either.

Mutual funds do not trend in such a smooth way anymore like they did in the 80's and 90's (especially upwards). So that would likely not work today.

Seems to me you've been reading too many sales brochures and now can't tell reality from fiction. Most of what you say is 2nd hand bullshit. Post some real sources of those returns and I will reconsider my opinion.

esignal and quote.com=$DJUSHB this index is updated once every 3 minutes, by the way.

dis, were you getting your data into metaserver thru excel first or directly from IQFeed into metaserver? IQFeed-->Excel-->MetaServerRT?? IQFeed-->MetaServerRT?? Thanks!

The metaserver and IQFeed webpages both mention $50/mo. ONLY QuoteTracker version is $20/mo. Is the feed symbology *exactly* the same meaning its just a marketing trick or are there problems encountered if you sign up for 1 program and use another instead?

How 'bout doing an ol' fashion IPO to raise trading funds? Make sure your business plan has 5 year projections and shows sky-high profits and you'll soon have idiots bangin' on your door.:D