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I think.... he is trying to say that based on ACTUAL POSITION SIZE, the return on this amount is about 0.03%. If there was a 10:1 leverage on risk capital, then the annual rate of return from trading based on his assumptions would be a meager 0.3%..... which is where the "competitive" issue...

See first issue of Trader Monthly which rated traders....prop, individual, hedge, and institutional. One woman trading derivatives at a bank made 100 million for one year. She was paid 20 million. So, that's 20%.

At least it's easy to see how they could have "lost" in May: short US Dollar ....or short bonds ...or short equities. Pretty simple stuff. Directional mistakes always costly.

Exactly. Watch the short-interest or days-to-cover statistic....that is telling. Apple Corp. has been just on a tear from a PR standpoint with a constant and steady barrage of "news" that makes it a horrible short right now....exactly what they want ! However, Hi PE stocks are in for a big...

Once this becomes more mature, can someone compare/review this against Tradestation ?

input: period(3); if Low < Lowest(Low,period) then Sell else if High > Highest(High,period) then Buy; Oldest entry in the book. If your position was flat at the day's open, you would have been short immediately and then covered or reversed to long around 10:30 or so.

When oh when is ESignal ever going to get their act together ?

I watched OBV 1 minute and 10 minute charts once in INTC while another trader was long in the stock. The price action was sideways, but the OBV was positively awful. He eventually closed that trade for a loss. I'm not espousing OBV as any Holy Grail, but it can be useful...at times.

whoa... armed with this info, why weren't you on Nova ?

One might ask two questions: 1) WHY did your "edge" lose favor ? 2) WHY are you only trading part-time instead of finding a "new edge" ?

I watch OBV all of the time, multiple time-frames. It's tricky. From your charts, I see DEC04 with nice price action, but WEAK OBV...i.e. up-volume not that strong. However, lastest action indicates strong buying interest as shown by uptrending OBV in face of sideways price action. If my...

Today: Late bears got crushed. Simple as that. Looked scary, but bulls took over after noon. Trading can be simple, but getting out of losing positions: takes discipline.

Ah....doubling DOWN, eh ? Ask traders how many have succeeded with that money management strategy ?

Did you notice the incredible drop in AUM (Assets Under Management ) ??? Wow !

YTD Performance for 2005 nowhere near prior years....option writing no longer working.

Recent post from another forum about ESignal's latest product Advanced Get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The majority of my trading is in index futures, bond futures, and currency futures so the quality of support for futures is as...

What's the difference ? Big account = large dollar losses, small account = small dollar losses. With a meager $5k deposit account, the guy was down 80% of his account in 2 trading days....as he started those trades down $1000 already. What's important are the LESSONS learned: no discipline...

EXACTLY...however, with even some good trading platforms like Lightspeed, there is no built-in STOP LOSS order capability for Naz stock trading. Reason: ETrade does not want the LIABILITY from failed stop orders due to execution or technical problems. Many other order entry platforms DO park...

A newbie, small-account trader without much experience was doing pretty well...large share size on slow moving Naz stocks like JDSU, SUNW, SIRI, etc (a la rebate-trader style). I noticed his holding periods for losing trades were 3-5 hours...and sometimes he was covering them in the afterhours...

The RIMM CEO was shrewd...he put out a statement this morning with one key word in it: CHINA. That's all it took to keep that puppy alive today. I think all CEO's should take note of this "burn the shorts" strategy.