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    How To Cut Losses?what Parameters To Use?

    We trade similar. First of all, I always trade the open. That can be bread and butter profit. I suggest you look at trading the open. I always trade 1000 share lots. Sometimes two positions at a time, sometimes I will double up on one position. I only have ten stocks on my board. All but one...
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    I Have Been Trading Since Before The Internet-1990

    I started actively trading in 1990-1991. I have done it for a living since 1997. My first trading rig was an Apple Color Classic using Linn Software's Ticketwatcher software hence, my screen name. The quotes came through a subcarrier of cable tv channel TBS. They were quite expensive, nearly...
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    The Opening Orders Thread

    I have traded for years. I have regularly read this thread off and on for quite a while. I usually put a couple of orders in on the open and I have been fairly profitable although the open is not my bread and butter trading. I have always traded the more liquid NYSE stocks and rarely if ever...
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    What make the markets recover??

    <cite>What make the markets recover??</cite><p>Creatures called investors control a lot more shares than creatures called traders.
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    Nucking Futs

    I have traded for a living for ten years. I am a short term daytrader as well. I look to buy near daily lows and short near daily highs which is different than trading momentum. But I think the volatility we have seen lately requires an adjustment for daytraders. Time on trade becomes very very...
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    FBN's "Happy Hour" a breakout hit?

    <cite>The closest thing I've seen to it on TV, in terms of combining a fast pace with conversations and information, has been ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" and "Cold Pizza" as well as Fox's own "The Best Damned Sports Show Period." These shows all have the same kind of freewheeling...
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    Will you agree?

    I would not agree that this is even a war. Wars which last any length of time usually have military objectives. The military objective was defeat Saddam Hussein and his standing army. The objectives that we are attempting to achieve are political. We are nation building and most conservatives...
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    You overshort because you hate G.W. Bush?

    <p>Not only that he had a black son according to this article which came up on a google search.<p>http://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/danny.htm
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    You overshort because you hate G.W. Bush?

    Opinions of any nature are obstacles in trading at least the way that I trade. There is a right track wrong track public opinion poll. Most people believe the country is on the wrong track. If that poll had any significance beyond reflecting emotion and opinion, then incumbents would be an...
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    Trading on intuition vs more objective means

    <p> I do not know anything about the system to which you refererred. I do know something about trading the same stocks day after day. I track ten stocks. In a given month I rarely trade more than five of them. I trade the same stocks day after day. They "behave" in certain ways. In up days they...
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    Can't stay to be in profit

    <p> I trade equities but this is my advice. Time of day is very important in deciding to expose yourself a little longer to both risk and gain. I am more apt to stay on trades early in the day.As the day goes on and I am accumulating profits and I have less tolerance for exposure and I am...
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    good gambling book

    <p>Larry Merchant is the long time commentator for HBO Boxing. Before that gig, he wrote a book entitled The National Football Lottery. That book got me to gambling on football. The book turned me on to technical analysis. I was quite good at betting the NFL because there are relatively small...
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    Customers' info database stolen at TD Ameritrade

    I remember someone raising this issue last fall on the Quotetracker forums which no longer exists ironically because of its deal with Ameritrade. Ameritrade said they dealt with the problem as soon as they found out about it. I doubt that. As I remember the poster who I assume was trading for a...
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    Cramer On Cover Of Barrons Looks Bad

    <p>I respect handicapping horse racing. There is an awful lot of legitimate information to be had with horses. I meant to confine my comments to dog racing which does not have nor has it ever had the legitimacy of horse racing.
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    Illegal immigrants

    <p>I employ a housekeeper a job typically held by illegals in many parts of the country. I pay her the minimum wage and report that on my income tax which means she gets social security credit. She is not an illegal or even a minority. She has a high school education and is certified as a nurses...
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    Illegal immigrants

    <p>That is incorrect information. Presidente Jorge Bush leads the The Teddy Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party and they are the illegals amigos in Washington. The Tom Tancredo wing of the Republican Party would be for deporting every illegal if they could and they would be not be signing any...
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    Cramer On Cover Of Barrons Looks Bad

    <p>The article is available to those who have WSJ online. I read it, it was not very insightful. My favorite Kramer story goes back before he had his own show. He used to brag about much he learned hanging around the dog tracks and betting on dogs. I am a professional trader who came to trading...
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    Funny, retail sales expected to be -0.1, What a joke!!!

    I track and research 10 stocks. I only trade two or three of them in a given week. I haven't traded WMT since it ran up over 50 the first week in June. I felt it would give it back, but I felt that the big money that drove that move could return at any time. I would not track WMT without...
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    I figured out 10% of traders

    Your insight is not particularly original. It could be as easily stated as the difference between those who talk the talk and those who walk the walk.
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    How Many Traders Were Stopped Out on Tuesday Because of the NYSE FUBAR Hybrid System?

    I make my living trading. I put down on another thread today what my plans were for today. I executed my plan. I hoped to make 50 per cent of what is my daily average and target is and get out of the market. I again made 60 per cent on trades off the open and sat out the day after just being in...
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