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    atRocky start when going live from simulation?

    Any one else have this problem when they went from simulation/paper trading to trading live? I paper traded a system for over 6 months and I had no more then a 4 day stretch of down days. I just started on the 1st and the last 3 trading days have been losers. I looked over my trades and they...
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    Market close plays

    There are a bunch of different opening plays that people play and I always read people playing the close but I have yet to come accross a stategy for the close(i'm new). Do people just trade the close because volume picks up or are there closing stategies that are like the opening stategies?
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    Trader P/L 2005

    Can i ask how much buying power you are using to make that $7,700?
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    Starting an account with Alliance?

    I just talked to support on their website and now you don't have to do it any more. They said it's optional now but you can do it for tax reasons. What tax reasons would this be? Anyway this was the conversation: Support: Hello. How may I be of assistance? you: Can you give me a little...
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    Don's openings and more for 2005

    Don, how much buying power are you using to make these gains? Does it change every day?
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    Starting an account with Alliance?

    I was about to open an account with them and on their site they now have this. "Please note that we do not accept US or Canada addresses. Setup Offshore Corporation." Then they give this link http://www.allianceinvestment.net/offshorecenter.htm You basically start an offshore corporation...
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    Smart 'money'?

    "He likes to call himself, rather then a "buy and hold" investor, a "buy and homework" investor. So viewers tempted to act on his advice during one show better make plans to return — and return and return. " If nothing else, that's a pretty good way to keep people watching, and ratings...
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    Gap Plays

    Played the same gap today on RIMM. Bought RIMM 400 shares @ 74.94 09:42:24 Sold @ 75.94 09:52:09
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    John Arnold from Enron

    Dam, This guy lives in my town! James Simons City: East Setauket, New York Firm: Renaissance Technologies Corp. Age: 67 Renaissance's Long Island retreat more resembles a college campus than a hedge-fund hub, and Simons, a former math professor with a Ph.D. from Berkeley who was once...
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    Gap Plays

    Elan would have been a better choice then BIIB. They are partners on the drug that was in the news. The drug is a much larger part of Elans buisness though and caused a bigger move and a better gap play.
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    What do prop shops offices look like?

    I was checking out the Echo trade website and I came accross a pictures page of their offices. Is this what a typicle prop shop looks like? http://www.echotradeonline.com/album/index.htm
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    average Swift-trader make?

    how much buying power do they start you out at?
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    average Swift-trader make?

    That's funny, so if you go prop for the leverage, say 10:1, and you only get to keep 35% of it, your actually making less then if you just had a retail accout with 4:1 leverage?
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    GoodPunk6's Trading Journal

    Does that mean you took home $178 or $18?
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    Don's openings and more for 2005

    I didn't read this from the beggining but why are all these people posting in Don's journal that aren't Don? Are the people that post here work at his company?
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