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what i will say is not my original knowledge, but rather what I have learned from reading books from Mark fisher, Richard Weissman, and a few others.... if you have a profitable system, you are better off trading it across a basket of uncorrelated instruments... that way if half is right and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwKMvu1RpYg

Dash Yarnold, 14 Location: Mill Valley, California Investing Style: "I have two portfolios, one is for long term and conservative investments. <B>The other portfolio is <U>virtual</U> and contains riskier and more aggressive securities. In the aggressive portfolio I usually trade technology...

wow, the comment left be baffled, I just had to reply ... I think you should watch the following movie..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/

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like everyone has said for the most part... fund a small account with $100 and trade it... it has little to do with if you will achieve a living from it or not, but rather it has to do with real fills and actual money in the line with regards to your feelings... because $100 tends not to be a...

why dont you call your rep and ask them about it? it is not hard for them to explain some of the rules/guideliness and then for you to model the whole thing in a spreadsheet and give yourself a cushion just in case... and then compare your spreadsheet model to the end of day/next day to verify...

an experiment in equities with a small account... my objective was to close the P&L @ $225 gross... I started the day wrong per say... trying to average in my hedge for my shorts with a long made me lopsided overall.. so I had to average in higher than lower... next time I need to hesitate...

took me a while to read your whole thread... interesting journey... thanks for sharing it.

an experiment in equities with a small account...

you are trying to educate the blind and foolish... it would be easier to point them to any of the free online courses about macro, it would certainly save you time... as to his nick name... I prefer to just think of him as scat, noun, deriving from an animal...

I think your above statements say it all, after your loss you stuck to your plan...you would have been positive for the month otherwise... perhaps you should somehow stop yourself from doing discretionary trades.. no idea what, but you seem to be better off... long ago I had a similar thing...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=201459

your issue should be clear to you, mainly because I face a similar challenge...

if bored, why not create a new thread and discuss the best and proper way to trade options on futures... that would get the options forums going I would think...

hmmm... I guess overly restrictive is relative... I am a user of IC, so I can tell you that 60% of the features I dont care for... QTRader meets 70% of my requirements overall but it breaks my indicators... so that was a no-no... yes, one chart per page can be annoying... I would have...

I figure thus who spread and use CQG might find this interesting... better value than CQGTrader and not as expensive than CQG Integrated Client... http://www.cqg.com/Products/CQG-QTrader.aspx in case you wonder which FCMs are offering it... as of today... below listing that are offer...

here is something that uses TDA data... http://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/AmeriTrade.php lowest cost you can find... and you can just then plot Ask/Bid Difference Bars...

I've spoken to Colin Cody, after someone I met on this forum recommended him, he is more suitable for anything dealing with LLC's and trading through them... I would recommend them over Green's... whom I have also spoken with before... http://traderstatus.com/ and your operating agreement...

hmmm... personally, I think IRT is the lowest cost option that you will find regardless of your timeframe... specially given all it offers you for that price... but let's look at some numbers... NT7 (Free) but you need a feed... IQFeed will set you back ~$100 with basic, futures and some...