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Hey "brother" (_groan_) Hast thou considered changing thy trading strategy to accommodate thy desire for a greater income? To me, a trader who's success is contigent upon the "correct" market environment = crap trader. What exactly are "forgiving market conditions"?? Are you referring...

Why is moving "that kind of size" considered being extremely aggressive? Are you suggesting that someone playing with big size (say, $100mil, for arguments sake) cannot play within the boundaries of conservative risk management ( eg, risk no more than 2%/trade)? If so, why? And why does...

....so lemme guess, with all these polls, you are trying to set yourself up with a career at AC Nielsen?

My short answer is this: do whatever it takes to get used to playing both sides of the market, otherwise you are at an extreme disadvantage to other traders. Taking a short does not in any way imply that you have to "take some pain". Strict trading rules should apply to longs and shorts. If...

The topic of this thread is whether sharing a strategy nullifies that strategies effectiveness. Someone then said something about if we all drive better it's better for all of us, to which I replied it's a bad analogy to trading, as we can't ALL become better traders - otherwise who's gonna take...

Depending on the strategy being shared, you're right up to a point. But because trading is a zero-sum game - well actually a negative sum game, once you factor in commissions - there are simply always going to be losers. Not everyone can win - unlike in your driving analogy, where we can ALL...

I use IB and Qcharts and apart from Qcharts down a few times a MONTH have never had any problems. IB + QCharts = Just Fine. Daniel

Pretty obvious huh? Well....actually no. My name's not really Daniel, it's Mladen. When I was a kid people in the Macedonian community took the last part of my name - "den" and started calling me Deni, which English speakers turned into into Danny which evolved into Daniel. And I've been...

You've gotta be joking right! Keep the "trading part" of your capital constant? Then what am I trading for? The income?? Hmm..I just realised...maybe *I* am wrong about this....do traders out there actually do this? I thought we all wanted to grow our accounts...so the same trades will...

my reply was tongue in cheek too guys! i just forgot to put the smily in! :p see? :D

Firstly Nebeno, congratulations for taking on the admirable task of being a trader! I am very impressed with the quality of some of your observations about your early trading career - even more impressive given your age. Your reflections on your daily actions remind me of when I first...

could I ask why please? thanks.

you mean i SHOULDN'T post my "who married their highschool sweetheart?" poll?

I know...two no brainer days in a row. Gettin too easy this, get on the pc at 9:30 hit buy or sell..come back at 4 and count my profits. Tell ya what, one more of these days and I'm callin up my grandma and tell her to fire up the old ameritrade account...

I'm gonna offer you some very serious advice. Firstly, I'm pretty sure that even you realise that the executions you are gonna get with Etrade are simply not suitable for making multiple day trades. Why then would you consider using them? Secondly, I think at this stage of your career...

I posted this as a reply to a recent thread, but I'd like the last point ("NOTE TO BARON, MODERATORS") to be considered by traders in this forum and some ideas given on how to deal with recurring newbie questions. Adam Here's a pointer. There are 50 or so pages of threads in the "Trading"...

Here's a pointer. There are 50 or so pages of threads in the "Trading" forum. A good start would be to go to page one and read through all them, as the subject of "beginner-seeking-advice" occurs quite readily. You might find others here get somewhat exasperated with answering the same...

As I understood it, TriPack was suggesting you INCREASE your exposure as a trade moves your way. (At least that's the message of the "Phantom".) This is something I've been experimenting with myself. It definitely feels uncomfortable adding to a winner (I add half the original size) but...

Totally the opposite. Fully 70% of my trades these days are from the short side. (Understandable since we ARE in a bear market.) I had a period in February where every chart I saw looked like a sale. (I've recovered my ability to go long since then though!) I must admit to being quite...

I apologise Pussycat. In light of some "on the money" commentary in the "god and trading" (oops.. that was "age" and trading) thread...(whatever happened to that anyway?? - seemed we were so close to an answer!) and other gems such as the one above...I really have to retract a comment I...