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When I took a "snapshot" of his alleged positions last November, the average term was 113 days. The average return was 12.6%. 113 is approx. 47% of the annual number of trading days, which would make his annual return about 26%, if he continued with the same results. That's a cautionary 'if'...

49 vs 5 does not give a 'rate of return'. Time is a component in the calculation (missing in mm's calculations) because 15% (before losses are factored in) within 4 months is a different rate of return than 15% (less losses) in 18 months. Furthermore, waiting until if and when 15% gets hit and...

My dad was a semi-professional player for a while so you'll appreciate my answer. But your question, as dbphoenix pointed out, does not have not the right focus, but what else is new from the beltway, huh?:D The question isn't whether a pro knows how much money he's got invested, whether it's...

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They way I understand it, to cause a public forum to be deleted because of a confidentiality agreement violation, a confidentiality agreement would need to have elitetrader as a party to that agreement - and the agreement would have to be specifically violated. That agreement prohibits all...

I don't think professionals in other fields calculate their earnings while they're working, they focus on the job they're doing instead, otherwise, they'd be distracted from concentrating on the task at hand. Imagine heart surgery being performed by a surgeon who, while his fingers are guiding...

Then start grunting, snorting and oinking 'cause a poll of New Year's resolutions showed that one of the top 5 things average joe plans on doing is 'getting back into the stock market'.

I've noticed similar discrepencies on quotes comparing IB with Scottrade. Waiting for the genius who devises a way I can enter on one, click and drag the position over to the other, and sell it.

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That's part and parcel the classic dilemma of trading a MA XO. You should consider other factors/filters as well for being in the trade, not just that the MA crossed. You may want to decide to enter after the MA crosses AND 'this' does 'that'. Or 'this' is a go, 'that''s a go, so if the MA...

Read two posts on a new thread last evening regarding IB's offering of their 8% notes to customers; the thread seems to have vanished. Was looking to read up on customer's experiences. Got any?

Well, as long as you're looking for conjecture, here's a couple of thoughts: 1. Cramer could be given some sort of classification, i.e., "guest editorialist", for which the new rule does not apply; 2. Cramer could have his holdings in a non-individual entity and so bypass the rule; 3...

Try: http://www.iolo.com/sm/4/index.cfm

Maybe PC Quotes is offering it for a third less than they should. Why think that the fact that they're offering it at 3x what someone else arbitrarily decides to price it infers that they're price gauging? It's business as usual, prices are set at whatever and let the marketplace decide...

Are you referencing to back in '99-2000?

The reason cap gain taxes are avoided is because you are turning over the assets to a charity. You receive the appropriate tax deduction, and a certain % income for life from those assets, and when you die, your beneficiary also receives that income. The charity keeps the assets forever. This is...

I read through the mm site. Quite a number of posters on the mm site will use stops and make their own decisions rather than blindly follow mm. Others don't understand the concept of time in a position, not caring if it takes two years to see 15% as long as they see 15% eventually. That's why...

See: http://home.golden.net/~pjponzo/Yahoo-data.htm

That's one of the three methods espoused in the Bollinger book, but in the other ways of utilizing the bands, he also says that a tag of the upper band does not necessarily signal an exit, but rather, a continuation, and to see if the close occurs outside of the band for a portent of strength...

My brother-in-law just asked me a few days ago about Champion Trader. As a rule of thumb, anytime you see a splashy ad touting a highly profitable system that comes out of some unknown indicators, running away is probably the least expensive viable option. Anyway, we did an internet search, and...