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Computer crashed today. It is now unusable. I have my mom's while I'm home for two weeks (the computer I'm using now), but I'm not going to start trading on it. If I did anything right it is my inherent distrust of computers and saving important things on them, so I keep absolutely...

Today: completely finished my market observations, read Inside the House of Money for maybe an hour, tried unsuccessfully to find trading firms around me, worked a little on the resume, and some quality screensaver / nfl playoffs time. Comments: My trading to do list really has nothing at all...

Thanks for the tip, nkhoi. I went through the ones he listed which weren't in the area, but I sent him a PM as well.

How would I go about finding trading firms, or the kind that hires individual traders? Do they go under more professional names, or is there a site I can locate any? Thanks!

This will help... http://jobs.hedgeworld.efinancialcareers.com/USA-DC.htm

Absolutely! Thanks, pkang. Does anyone know what I can do to look more attractive to these top firms? I'm thinking about saying something about my trading and adding that my experience has shown me the importance of risk management and adhering to clear rules, etc. I'm very glad I...

Only a few hours of work today – I see overall very little worth doing to do when the market isn’t in session now. Anyway, what I did do was go through a few more observations and find charts for them – only 14 left. I also decided to begin going through Anekdoten’s Holy Grail thread...

A lot of thinking about stuff today, but I will try to keep this short. As I was going over charts, it finally hit me that I am developing a very profitable strategy that could make me more money than I ever need. Although I’m sure it will need some refinement and patience (which I think I...

I will look into them. Thanks for the advice, Spinn.

Interesting idea. I have found the CFA society website for DC and I'll look into it. I also found earlier today that just by google searching "securities" and the name of the town I can pull up all kinds of companies and their information. I will begin phone calls on Monday. Great. I...

What exactly are you suggesting, princessa? I'm not sure that deciding to simply "catch the trend" is quite the difference between profitable and unprofitable trading. Job searching stuff for an hour, screensaver for an hour, and I'm out for the night. Happy New Year

So far, my best ideas are applying to the largest firms that would definitely have locations nearby (such as Goldman, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Merrill, etc.), visiting the closest metro stops and walking around to find other potential candidates, and otherwise searching companies' online locations...

Hi. I am a college investment finance major looking for ideas on how to find quality internships in the area. Any and all help or advice is greatly appreciated. :)

Just re-read my post about getting a job this morning, and thought I should clarify. Of course I'd rather be trading than getting a job, but that's not the main problem. The problem is that I see few investment banks and brokerages hiring (there were zero at my school's huge career fair this...

I have decided to begin spending about an hour per day preparing my resume, searching for summer internships in my area, and applying to them over the next few weeks. It is just now beginning to seem too risky to depend on trading, and even if trading works out to be depending on it with such a...

I was too sick to really get out of bed yesterday, but was well enough to get some work done today. My concentration was too low to read anything or trade (like I originally had planned), but it was fine for about 1.5 hours of screensaver time and finishing up several things on my to do list.

Second edition of my monthly reflection: 12/29/08 on the Month of December I have decided to write December’s reflection before the end of the month as it is a Sunday night and I am editing the rest of my documents in order to save time for watching and trading later. Strengths: I am...

I spent most of the early part of the day setting up the Oanda sub-account for my 3 hour and daily trades. This took quite a long time. I started out with 7-8 currencies that could be traded with fair spreads, but decided that this was far too many. I now have four: the EUR/CHF, AUD/USD...

Would like to say that there is a lot of value perusing ET and other forums, but atctually all the best threads were referred to me by others. I was only about a third through the second PA Journal thread, but the main traders’ charts I was looking for left the thread, so I’m giving up on...

Hi Eddie, nice to have a fan. 1. What is helpful and not helpful in a trading book of chart patterns? Everything that you don't know. :) For me it was just a handful of new ones, but I also thought his breakout strategies were interesting. 2. I have thought about programming, but it's...