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I think what the US government has figured out is that the whole rest of the world wants a strong dollar. Japan has spent $75 billion to prop up the dollar vs. the yen. All this to help exports to the US. The US figures if others will support the value of the dollar no matter how many they...

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I was thinking that the internet or IB's quotes were getting a little sticky - that could also account for an "off fill". I have not had any problem using limit orders only. I would not think liquidity is a problem. Seems more like hiccups in quotes/internet. I noticed it when I tried to...

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that it will exceed your 1029.30 number. :D

I have never traded on the floor, though I have been to a number of them. It seems like a different skill set is required for optimal performance on the floor vs. for screen based traders. Most people could probably do both, but extreme personalities/skill sets could probably only do one or...

T-REX is delusional. He has done this a couple of other times posting as ABHAY etc. He comes up with a half baked idea. Back tests it manually for a couple of months, then comes on ET and emphatically announces his high percentage, professional, robust trading system. The systems are...

Where you thinking 1025 Canadian? :D

Volatility is highest at tops and bottoms

Some interesting information on the CME August Market Data page http://www.cme.com/dta/hist/monthly_volume_action.html?themonth=7&theyear=2003&submit=Search&pageOption=0 A low volume summer compared with last year. Pit volume seems to be shrinking dramatically. It's interesting that...

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....so much for fading ET polls

I for one, am glad to see more pros on ET like T-REX. Don't know if you are one of those guys who works for SAC, Quantum or for Paul Tudor Jones but thanks for being here. One on-going complaint I have with the Elite Trader forum is that the forum software has a bug or worm in it that...

Say you bought 1000 shares at $50 ($50,000) and your stop loss is $1 ($1000) - your exposure would be $1000 of the $100,000 you said you had in your account or 1%.

Its amazing how some parents will sabotage their children with a never ending stream of criticism. It’s a trait that is handed down from generation to generation like child abuse. People who don’t grow up like this have no idea what a monkey it can be on your back. The only way I...

It just does not pay to let anyone else know how you are doing whether you are losing or winning. If you are losing and you tell others you will only scare them or develop a negative feedback loop where you spend all your time talking about how bad it is. If you let others know you are...

Give it a time limit & dollar limit. Tell him & her if you are not successful in X amount of time or if you lose X amount of money you will do something else. Ask them for their unquestioned support during this period.

Or you could switch to trading the diamonds DIA with the idea of moving on to the Dow YM futures which has a smaller tick size than ES.

Health insurance should be a tax credit for people like us. None of this 25% or 50% deductible shit - make it a straight tax credit. Perhaps this is one thing we can all agree on.

Never short a dull market.........

o.k. monkey, you can let go now. I think the shorts have passed out from the pressure. :D