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It's at 19.81 at the moment, but you bought it at 24.84. So it's not really up. In fact, it's down 20.24%. You mustn't misrepresent the true situation of your portfolio, it undermines everything else you may write.

It's not 'ET's sacred rule'. Stop losses are a widely acknowledged and proven trading precept born out of decades of many traders' successful methodologies. The reason, or reasons, you'd want to do things differently, regardless of whether you use stops or not, is because your method ties up...

Wouldn't a list of "Wrong" questions far outpace a list of "Right" questions so much so that it may be more practical to focus on a list of "Right" questions?

More accurately, as of 11/10 it was a 12.6% average per trade for all holdings, with holding periods varied from a few months to almost two years. Whether such an average return is worth a two year's hold, or even a hold of a few month's, I'll leave individual readers to decide for themselves...

I'd say that during the same period you've been holding stocks losing value such as CBK, PTSI and WSB. What explains that? Your exuberance over a gain makes my heart chuckle. No offense or comparison meant, yet it reminds me of my son when he was three and how excited he got when we took him...

My experience with forums is that in general: newbies don't bother reading the FAQs. newbies don't bother doing searches. What can you do?

Draw channel lines on a chart (highs and lows) and see what the width is (points wise), if it's substantial in that you'd be able to grab a profitable piece of it then note the length of time it takes from trough to peak. On further thinking, your parameter may be better if you make it half the...

There's a discussion board at Wealth-lab you could try, specifically one about WL desktop issues. It's well attended by Glitch and Cone and others, though the replies may not be immediate.

The closest idea to what you may be seeking could be to assess each market's cycle length, then use that length as the parameter.

Right, one can't deduct the cost of parking tickets. But an exchange isn't a government, and the trader hasn't necessarily broken any laws. And as you've pointed out, the trader's accountant hopefully knows what's what, my sense is that there may be light at the end of this taxing tunnel.

ET doesn't seem to delete posts stating selections in journals. Maybe it's an idea to create a thread in that forum in which to post your selections?

There isn't an answer to that, it's only as good as the best offer you get. Now, if this were 1996, it would be a different story. Just think how so many people registered particular domain names in anticipation that the big businesses who could use those names would come on their knees offering...

Yes, thank you, that's the part that seemed to me to be applying ST against LT and vice versa. Thank heavens for accountants and proctologists.

Yes, you posted the same bit of news on the other thread. Your overreaction to it is as if this is extraordinary for someone to see a gain in their position. What it does mean is, if you exited and realized the gain, you now have capital freed up and ready for your next selection, when...

May short term losses be applied against long term gains, and long term losses against short term gains? I ask because that's the way the schedule seems to compute it.

Go into your account management> trading permissions > and tick the corresponding box for the market you're seeking to obtain the permission to trade. I'm not from IB, but that's what I had to do when I was given a similar error message.

me too.

To keep foreigners out. Sorry, couldn't resist, it's only a joke.

Exactly so. Whenever a 'winner' is asked what advice they have for others, it's usually along the lines of "Perserverence". Of course, that worked out well for them, but not just because of perseverence. Lots of people have perseverence. It's not "luck", because there's really no such thing as...

Getting out alive.