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lol.... sorry... too late. This year's supply has been sold out! I guess this means I'll have to return to New Orleans next year. :) Doug PS For the right price, maybe I can get some back from my kids! :)

Risk vs. Reward Question? The person who gives the best answer to this will go to the head of the class... :) Explain in terms of risk vs. reward why some people use this forum to make negative and derogatory comments when the offer I proposed has 100% upside and zero downside? In other...

I made $$$ from trading. Then I partnered with a friend to invest the money I made from trading in a fund of funds. Now I make my money by selling Mardi Gras beads on eBay. :) How do you make your money? Doug

lol... yes, I'm an internet marketer. Just look at that fancy website...lol. Let's see... I got my flip camera, registered a domain, putzed around figuring out how to create a simple html page, and put a form for a name and email address... Seriously, what about that page makes you...

Hi Trendo, Just to be clear, a commitment of time will be required. No money is required. Sorry if I didn't word that very well. :) Doug

Hi Everybody, Sorry I took so long to get back online here. I was at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the room I had was at the far end of the hotel and I couldn't get wi-fi service. All I could do was access the internet through my Blackberry. And frankly, I wasn't really in the frame of...

I'm running a business, not challenging anybody on a school playground. And I'm not wasting anybody's time. I've had many private discussions with people who have emailed me and PMed me and one thing I've discovered is there is no shortage of quality people here at ET. And what I'm looking...

Hi DG... When I started out I had the same concern about the fund of funds account I was trading. But once I got into the relationship with the people who were providing the $20 million it wasn't even an issue. You see, they have no incentive to mess with somebody who is making them...

I just wanted to give everybody and update. I apologize for everybody who sent me a PM that I haven't responded to yet. I wasn't really prepared for how many people responded. I thought I would have time to correspond with everybody individually this week but it just didn't work out. And...

Hi Percy, Thanks for the email. I've been working on setting up a more systematic way to communicate with everybody. I didn't anticipate the volume of people that are interested. I will be in touch with everybody individually, but I first want to get a better way to understand what...

I guess you took the word "split" to mean 50/50. I guess coming from the hedge fund industry I'm using to using the word "split" in the context of the 80/20 split that's pretty much standard. Sorry for the confusion caused by my careless used of the word "split."

Hey surf, Obviously we are not a prop firm. Like I said, to this point we've only invested money with traders through the hedge fund structures they've set up. Apparently these traders thought it was a good idea to trade OPM with a 1/20 split. You'd have to ask them what competitive edge...

Hi Atticus, I'm not sure that I remember ever saying that the initial plan was a 50/50 sharing of the profits. I think is one of those things that somebody else decided. But maybe I said something that made people think that. I'm not sure. In any event, like all business matters, the...

Hey surf, Interesting take on things... No, I'm not a NLP guru, although there are distinctions I've made from NLP that are useful, like how to collapse anchors. This is a very useful skill in trading. My philosophy in life is typically one of being open-minded. I usually don't...

What I envision is the individual trader using whatever software and software that works for them. The accounts will be in my name so my account will have any associated fees deducted.

No, David, you're right. That character was based on me. I just made them change my name so that it wouldn't come back to haunt me years later. I knew I should have had them change my last name too... oh well, live and learn I guess. :) Anyway, I also wanted to point out that what I'm...

LOL... I think this is another "teachable moment" that totally relates to trading. Everybody has a model of the world based on their experiences. They can also get information from other people to expand their model of the world to include other people's experiences. Then they...

ok... here's the numbers... $1 million account trader makes 50% roi profit = $500,000 trader makes $100,000 An extra $100,000 for sitting in front of the computer and putting in the same trades he would have anyway, except with no risk, isn't a bad deal. Now suppose he documents the...

Both very good points! When I first learned how to program trading systems, I spent night after night discovering that 99.9% of the ideas I had were totally useless. But then I found one idea that wasn't. And then another. All it took was the first idea for me to make millions of...

I have a list of about 180 names now. I'll take $7 a piece for them, or $995 for the whole lot. :)