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I notice no stops were entered - did he have a mental stop for each position set? EDIT: stops were seldom entered.

Have you tried SierraChart? When I used IB I was very happy with it.

Thanks for still reading sam0182 - I don't anticipate the year being profitable, despite my steady profits, because of the tiny position size I am dealing with now. I will gradually increase position size when I think it is prudent. Fortunately I have been able to not worry about the overall...

Update for week ended 9/5/2008. Took it easy this week after last week's mistakes. Plenty of good movement in all the pairs I watch, but I wasn't available to take advantage of it. Looking forward to next week and continuing to improve in some small way or another.Date...

Anyone else notice excessive hard drive clatter when using Chrome? For some reason my hard drive just starts clicking like crazy when I start it up and stops as soon as I close it. Any ideas (other than Google copying the contents of my drives)? :confused:

I downloaded it yesterday without any issues (FF v3.0.1).

Lots of screen time. That will teach you more about yourself than any book will. I'm not saying that books are worthless (I've read plenty), but there is no shortcut or substitute for actually doing. You need to get your hands dirty at some point - so jump in with a little capital and...

I've been using Chrome all day, but I really miss the drop-down address bar and the add-ons (webmail notifier, forecast fox, foxclocks, etc) that make Firefox so great. Edit: The Google Chrome logo sort of freaks me out - looks like some giant eyeball staring at me.

Hey regal - rather than asking you to kill yourself, if atticus had said to "go fuck yourself", would that consitute rape according to your attorney relative? Just curious.

Update for week ended 8/29/2008. I must have been subconsciously trying to bump up the month's P/L this week because Monday I was stupid and opened a lotto position and let it run overnight without stops. I got caught red handed and was able to partially recover on Tuesday - but the slap on...

Update for week ended 8/22/2008. I just haven't been able to get back to my regular schedule because life continues to get in the way. Son is going to a new school next week, wife is unrelenting with her requests, and everything else in between has put a real damper on trading (and not much...

Congrats lescor! I hope you double that next year.

We can only blame our egos. We are trained as babies that losing is the equivalent to failing. So we naturally assume when we take a monetary loss on a position that we have failed in that trade - therefore the hesitation to take a loss no matter how small. A trade is either good or bad...

You can check out PDFTK Builder Portable. It's freeware that'll do the job. The link is for a USB version (portableapps.com) and I think they have a desktop version.

It's like any business... never hire friends or family.

Thanks - it can be difficult sometimes because we have different schedules. In order to keep the peace I sometimes need to stay up later than I prefer just trim down that list.

Update for week ended 8/15/2008. This week was got overwhelmed with the honey-do list, so my quality trading time was punished. I hope to be able to get back to schedule next week (but nothing is guaranteed with a wifey around :)). Overall this week wasn't too special - Sunday I took...

Check out ServInt; they are based in VA and have a variety of VPS offerings - highly recommended. IMO, the cloud or grid hosting offerings of Mosso or Media Temple are not ready for prime time yet.

The theory behind cloud or grid hosting, such as Mosso or Media Temple, is great - no ceiling on bandwidth or processing power. The problem is that the server processes/applications haven't caught up yet to make it functional and reliable enough. I've tried to use Mosso for over a year now...

Update for week ended 8/8/2008. This week was a nice birthday present. Nothing felt different and I really didn't watch that much; it just came down to cutting the losers that didn't feel right and getting a few EURJPY home runs on Mon, Tues, and Wed.Date P/L Pips...