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hoo yes my parents are completely interested in what i do, im their golden retirement! your family should see you as a genius if you can survive the gladiator ring so young.

haaa the sweet life of expensive clubs, restaurants and cars await you. and when youre old enough, expensive champagne too!

wow nice work there, i read the journal and i am impressed. nevertheless, if you cant get a prop firm to hire you, you can get leverage by signing on customer and keep 50% (or more, i ask for 66%) of the account growth, monthly. get 10 peeps to invest 10k$ each with you, heres your leverage...

very profitable at 17 years old? unless you are some kind of trading prodigy (they exist) let me doubt that. Most experienced traders with university education requires YEARS of diligent trading to become successful. if you are a trading prodigy then the guys who run the firms will see it...

at your age good luck being taken seriously by any firm whatsoever.

yes that is exactly why i struggled so hard to automate my trading strategy. to remove the damn human from the trading. so basically i just babysit my autotrader now, and i dont touch it ever unless theres a obvious problem.

yes, another lesson that was expensive to me

I would trust this data if and only if you can get convergence from other similar markets. if the parameters you're trying gives good results on one instrument, and it doesn't on another similar instrument, then forget it if it does however you might have found something good...

why not change the initial capital to 400$ instead of 100$? you could change the title of the thread to ''DtDs/B&H - 3 months - $3,968,000 thats MUCH more impressive.

if done with discipline, 5k --> 10k is not very long :) have fun

This thread is funny Here is a trading related story i have to share about that whole neo new age ''affirmative thinking'' stuff. When i started tradind a few years ago, i kinda formed a partnership with a friend of mine who had just enrolled in the Traders international course and we...

let us know if it improved your speed, it normally should.

on the subject of macs VS pc, today its basically the same hardware, intel cpus, intel motherboards, etc etc im seriously comtemplating the new mac pro tower as my next purchase for a trading workstation. 2 qud core xeon cpus, 8 gig of ram, superb motherboard quality, I am completely dazzled.

I also like Mark's posts a lot, he knows what hes talking about. and on the Mark VS spydertrader drama, my money is on the horse that actually runs (mark) whereas spydertrader is currently perceived as a untalented, unexperienced paper trader and until he posts profitable statements, it will...

im not surprised since its purpose is to hack and replace the settings from the TCPIP.sys from its crippled state to its former glory if you dont trust the one from the website i linked, heres the one i use on all my machines, its the 1st thing i do after a fresh windows install on a PC.

another possibility is that windows xp (since sp1) purposefully limits the number of open TCPIP connection to 10 (was unlimited before). you can fix that using the EVENT ID 4226 patch http://www.trustyfiles.com/help-sw-xpsp2.php i always change mine from 10 to 100 000. it...

On windows xp and vista, the network parameters are not set to their maximum potential. There is a small network optimizing program thats free and really great to unlock the full speed of your internet connection (it optimizes the stacks and MTU parameters etc www.speedguide.net and the...

Im actually super glad i had people being ''rude'' and realistic with me when i was a newbie. i probably wouldn't be here today otherwise. sorry if i sounded rude, i just want him to see a picture as clear as possible. Its commonly accepted that 95% of traders fail, easy to see in which...

Hello and welcome I will give you a very good advice about backtesting and tweaking your system based on the data you have available. beware of 'death by tweakage'', This means that you will most likely be tempted to overparametrize your system so it performs the best possible way...

may the profits be with you