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yupz. people should not be bailed out of stupid decisions. god if the fed did that for every beginning trader we'd all be rich as!!!!

damn yeh!!!!! melbourne is the best city anywhere and i've been to quite a few. Just one problem its too damn big, from city to teh sticks takes like 1hr+

franked div is one damn good reason. and most aus stocks have outperformed their overseas counterparts anyway over the last 10yrs cause of our mining boom. Trade the SPI200. what do u trade alex futs/ptions or stocks?

lolz ah well worth a shot eh?

1) Capitalisation is relative. I have small capital, however i use low leverage. with my leverage i can afford to lose 6000 ticks on an index that is trading at 6300 (SPI). essentially that is unlimited trading capital atm. i figured that even at a loss of an average of 1 ATR per day it would...

I live in melbourne australia and I am I am a beginner trader, i have been trading approximately 1yr part time, while i'm at uni. I say the word beginner in all sense of the word, time-wise and profit-wise. (negative beginner!) I have 2yrs left on my degree, and id like to at least be decent...

beats a margin loan hands down!!!!!

on a day to day basis over time number of up days roughly = number of down days. therefore setting a mini-target during teh day say 10% of the atr you should be able to approximate a bernoulli trial. So your winnings/loss will be 50/50 with PF of 1. Losses will come from slippage/commish...

however trading in such a fashion should not lead to large losses on the trading side. THe majority of your losses would be through Commissions and Slippage NOT losing trades.

Just curious as to the answer to this question If i enter randomly and exit randomly from the market. I use a simple 1:1 risk/reward ratio as a money management/profit target stop. Will my resulting trading break even not including slippage and commissions? Futhur if i use a 1:1 risk...

Hi, i require some help backtesting in tradestation 2000i. I need code to calculate weekly pivot points from daily OHLC charts and exit at particular pivots i.e S1, S2, R1, R2. Also how do i enter a trade when "backtesting" at a particular specified value? i can only enter at close and open...

atticus how long have u been trading options?

eh so vic's main strat is shorting naked puts?i assume that somewhere if the trade goes wrong he covers with underlying?

i've always been interested in VN. i mean hell the guy is capable of making >30% returns year on year, only other funds capable of that are rentech SAC and probably centaurus. Any ideas as to how he actually trades? i mean what kind of strategies does he actually employ?

with a brain surgeon you have people around you who have done it, who can mentor you to being a brain surgeon. the whole goddamn med school is there to provide support to you; tutors if you dont know what to do, lecturers, books, demonstrations etc. There is also not alot of emotions involved...

impose carbon futures on everyone and every coporation and government on this planet. Traded on CME, with total amount of contracts = pre 1970 levels DOW will crash, sp will crash but.................WE CAN ALL MAKE MONEY TRADING CARBON!!!!

could anyone help me with programming code for calculating weekly pivots in tradestation? I have EOD OHLC data and i cant get tradestation to calculate weekly pivots in my backttesting. thannks

BLOODY tradestation. it calculates bollinger band value for 1 stdev and another one for 2 stdev and and just goddamn averages them to give "1.5 standard deviations". stupid program

Hi im using tradestation 2000i and putting bollinger bands on weekly charts. The problem is that i cant get teh same values on an excel spreadsheet as what tradestation gives me Is the formula for calculating bollinger bands different in tradestation or what? for example: Date...

alot of supply information out there is misleading for a few reasons mainly due to the fact that oil price hasn't stayed at a high enough level for mass scale production of petroleum from tar sands to become commercially feasible on a massive scale. If all of canada's tar sands were to be...