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I would do nothing but daytrade. But again I trade ES futures and I absolutely hate to hold overnight and then again for days. BUT there is one thing absolutely for sure. You have to know EXACTLY what you want to be. either a mechanical trader or a intuitive trader. if you flip flop between...

thank you for your honesty. its really refreshing.

i have not had problem with this latest worm. I use Mcafee and i have it set up that it automatically updates the lastest virus info on my computer. really works neat. I also have my computer set up that it automatically updates operating system patches from microsoft. my network guy was over...

who would even want to admit to that and be called a liar and a cheat by all the creeps and thugs on ET. good luck

the money you are trading must mean to much to you. get rid of the value of the money you are trading and you will start to lose your fear that causes the wide emotion ranges. its hard to do but you have to develop an attitude that "you just don't care about this money".

thats why i say the more trades you have in your test (over 450) the better chance it will work into the future. but i absolutely agree you have to always observe the system behavior for tweeking.

IF it doesn't have that frequency of trades, then imo backtesting can't be relied on and is subject to optimization/curve fitting.

in the creation of my trading system, i divided my data into three parts and tested my ideas on each section. for me the most important was to have at least 150 trades in each section. if a section of back data did not have 150 trades then i would increase the historical data until i created at...

ive written some good programs for the es where ive entered at close and exited at the open, but after a while, i just could sleep and i would stay up all night so i quit that portion of my trading. sleeps more important than money.

become a mechanical system trader. the only way to go.

try investment engineering www.investlabs.com

i wish velocity would match ffasttrade on commissions.

sorry to alarm you, problem with ffasttrade does NOT happen very ofter. last time i can remember was 6 months ago and they ABSOLUTELY are there on the phone to help with entering or exiting orders. ive never been on anybodys system that didn't go down once in a while.

have you done business with them and if so, whats your experience.

zip net is an ib who has advertised on et. anyone done business with them. id like some feedback if you have

ive been using the ffasttrade platform for over a year. i really like it plus the phone support is great. if your doing some good volumn the prices are also great. every once in a while their servers go down and have to be re booted. but imo mental stops with a electronic trading system is...

why don't you just go to las vegas or the race track. get it over with. $500 is just to small.

let all those stock keep climbing all night. i will short the es tomorrow at the open

what your asking is like a freshment in college asking whats a good book to read. there are hundreds and evan after you read all these books, your still now going to know whats up until you take a couple trades and see how you react when you are losing your money.

my advice is for you if you are a system trader and not a intuitional trader because different rules apply. because im a system trader, the most important thing for me is to take the trade that the computer/system tells me to take. to do that i have to make sure my fear is in check and that im...