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it's called depression. lawyers, bankers, athletes, etc suffer from this when they devote 100% of their lives to it. my suggestion is to find other things that interest you and to do them in your spare time. i daytraded straight for 10 years and got thoroughly burnt out. i took 18 months off...

HFT's make consistent money making markets in thousands of stocks. They make consistent profits until Vix volatility rises to 40-50. Then they either get smoked or get shut off and then there's no liquidity and that's when markets get destroyed.

the list goes on tho. ie the Complacency Stage, and the Let's Trade this Strategy 10x Bigger Stage, when you blow up. rinse, go back to stage 1, repeat.

I always enjoy reading what these "prop" places like to put in their agreements, considering they don't see you as a human being. Of course, none of them are enforceable. We live in the United States of America.

right, other currencies have no link to crime.

i use an i7 and an i3. both have 8gig and run windows 7. they're both about the same for the platform i use and daytrading. i watch 120 stocks and have 30 charts up. i think the more important upgrade is to get an SSD drive to replace the old hard disk. that's usually the bottleneck. i...

you have obviously never worked at a trading company

*wooosh* the joke like a breeze

classic and probably true.

darts and coins aren't dynamic. bad analogy

you people is "all aggregations agreed upon"

you people are sociopaths.

all methodologies work with sensible risk control.

Agree. I saw a screening yesterday. Good film, humorous and disturbingly accurate at times. Best finance related film in a long time.

you are basically arguing that flared jeans is always in style from the beginning to the end of time.

In other words, your system worked until VIX90 and full blown market volatility in 2008 into 2009 and your system didn't work anymore. and now you trade a new methodology and it's working.. sounds like you're still in the game because of a willingness to change. every methodology works at...

It morphed into another Turtle Trader trend following is the grail thread.

Our Worldco office back in 2001 was interesting. One of the guys on the floor was a top trader and sometimes brought his pet chimpanzee to work. I remember his monkey was named Bubbles

Unless there is an alternative to buying, selling or not doing anything.. then the public has already seen every permutation.

You misquoted me. I never said that a trading method won't last forever. I said they are not continuous and this is because a strategy is less effective as more participants are participating in it. It's musical chairs.. by the time most are smoked out, it resets and it can retain it's use...