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Because the smaller minimum tick size means smaller profits. As far as paying the spread, unless you trade forex, you are not locked into paying the spread, you are a part of the auction.

Doesn't your discretionary trading have a positive expectancy?

I don't trade es, but I know that lower tick size equals less average profits for discretionary traders.

I think he meant that taking the time just to read or pay attention to it is the distraction. I have found where the cost is $300 per year, but it does not tell you that anywhere until you actually click a link to subscribe.

I have not seen any Briefingtrader/briefing.com service costing $300 per month. Where is that, did I miss it? It looks like they charge either $9.95 or 24.95 per month depending on which level you choose. It's not bad for what you get, which is concise info on company events, earnings...

I don't see the what the difficulty is in programming this "concept". It's been mentioned several times here that this is a concept and not a system, but I have not seen anything that cannot be quantified, unless I missed something.

You might want to check the accuracy of that fuzzy math calculater that you are using. Mine says that 2x1280x1024 > 2560x1600 and that 2x1600x1200 > 2560x1600

I like the key points you highlighted on CSQ. It's a shame that you just missed a nice bargain price by a few days. Personally, I might be inclined to wait for a pullback here given the nice run we had this week. That does run the risk of missing it or having to wait a while, but I think the...

The SEC did not impose that fine on the trader, it was the brokerage that did it to cover their own hide.

Your forgot normal gyration. There is an interesting analysis of Whole Foods in this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195189779/002-4556591-0048030?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 The author shows that their pricing on the same items that are carried by their competitors is not...

No worries.. my statement was meant as a compliment since I appreciate the insightfullness of the thread.

There are plenty of equity cefs that pay dividends (depends on the type, almost all though, I think?). It's true they almost always trade at discount but the discount is something you can trade since it can vary by a wide margin (i.e. scooping up bargains last month).

If you didn't get in during December you missed the boat on the tax effect. They have all popped pretty nicely almost across the board. DVM is up about $.80 for first two days of the year. There just might be a little easy money left if you can find some laggards that aren't lagging for a...

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Hello. There is nothing wrong with learning to trade with 100 share lots. These posters act like they were trading like Soros or Cohen from day one. Forget about a mentor; mentor yourself. Anyway, only a fool would train you to compete with them tommorrow without some self-serving reason to do...

If you are sucessfully using your feel for entries I'm not sure why you would want to turn to an indicator for exits. It would seem to me that the best thing would be to continue developing your feel for exits and accept that you cannot catch all of any move. No indicator will come close to or...

I am seeing some amazing acceleration in the stretching of discounts in a lot of these this week. Is anyone doing any bargain shopping here?

It would seem to me that if you are trading any type of strategy that is so saturated and efficient that a competitive edge of a millisecond or so makes any real difference, there couldn't be much there anyway. Also, I would think that the thread originator who has been system trading for...

No doubt the future is bright, the only question is when. It seems these will cause a major blow to the hard drive makers since they will read and write at higher speeds, have lower costs, and last longer too.... or did I miss something?

How much of a discount do you expect in the reits? 16% seems like a pretty high discount. DVM is not 100% reit by the way. I've only been involved with CEFs for about a year, but I came to the same conlcusion as you, that year-end tax selling on "losing" positions is advantagous to some (the...