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Right. That is always the key, find a trend and exploit it. Hope that you aren't the last one on board and if you are, know your out point. Doesn't matter if it is equities or commodities, etc. Depends on discipline and psychology. Albert

First of all, I want to thank all of you folks who participated in the survey. Second of all, that "90 percent of traders lose" statement should be taken with a grain of salt. Personally, the take home lesson of the survey was that if want to succeed you have to treat it as a business. The...

OK, so he has been in an unusually strong up trend since the low in 2003. Does he get the same results in Bear markets? Albert

Jesus, 30% per annum? Over how many years? Why do anything else? In 20 years he'll own it all. That's a double every two and a third years. That is 10 doublings in 23 years. 200,400,800,1600,3200,6400,12800,25600,51200,102400,204800.That's 205 million in 23 years with no risk to the other 300k...

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Therre are a few of these things, so hang in there.

Thought I would give the results to y'all. Interesting, but I'll let you decide for yourselves.

You wanna get on with it and move on with alternative energy? Nationalize the oil industry. Those guys are smart and greedy. They will leave that sinking ship like pestulant rats and foist another technology upon us in record time. Talk about an opportunity. Before you knuckle-dragging, mad...

To bjb1963: Down boy, don't take it personally. I wasn't trying to be a smart ass about you, I just have a sarcastic bent. Believe me, if I could go back to trading full time I would love it and I would do it. Hard to replace my present income, though (way more than 300) When I did trade full...

What size account do you plan on trading? Why would you not take a job that gives you a comfort level? You don't have to worry about every trade if that 3k is your rent. Put the extra money into the account, slowly build it up, learn something useful at the job(like the vocabulary or...

To Fadertrader: Yes, I know, you are right- again. I emailed Chimera and they didn't really address the question. They said that all those that trade for them are employees and that there are no accounts to blow through. If I'm ever in town and need a job... yeah right! To bjb1963 : Great...

I can't say that I don't use charts, but I do something a little different, since I want to get away from them and my addiction to computers. I use Telechart to scan for stocks and take the initial trade, and when I am finished with the trade, I then manually write the OHLC, vol, and range of...

Great! Going into the weekend with just 4 more responses needed. Thanks, everyone, for your help. Just a few more entrants and we can then talk results. Still interesting, even if not perfectly scientific. Albert http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=399580

Final phase of data gathering. I'm looking for 8 more traders. Yes, I know the survey could be better but I was limited to 10-12 questions. Throw me a bone. Albert http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=399580