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In addition to laptop back-up I just bought a customized ThinkPad X220 convertible: It's ultralight and the best performance notebook out there on the market and its convertible to a tablet and comes with a 3 year warranty. 12.5" HD screen Highlights Fast Intel Core i5 processor featuring...

Primary Line is a dedicated 10Mbps fiber optic line - never drops speed ultra fast for downloading even up to 20 charts in a blink and back is rated 8Mbps copper line that's part of the phone deal but drops speed quite often down to 3Meg - sometimes its useless takes forever to download...

The only game in town is to short all those assets that are anti-US dollar - energy , metals, major currencies and curiously soybean meal despite a strong soy market. Take your pick plenty of game out there and give two fingers up to Ben's speech tomorrow. :D

A big dollar movement is imminent - Which direction heh???I will be looking for clues in other currencies that really move rather trade the dollar (DX) itself - The pressure valve is about to blow out so take your positions or stand clear:D

Apart from market manipulation (unfortunately yes by Central Banks printing money) there is no one goody diddly diddy reason why stocks and copper should sustain multi-day rallies. So I'm shorting those rallies until prices reach a certain point that proves I'm wrong on direction. My concern...

Yes eventually I caught the sell off - my initial short positions were a bit premature as stocks rallied for 6/7 consecutive days. I put out the shorts at the end of each day and getting stopped out so after 3 losing losing days I waited until the 1st sell off day and went short. Stocks were...

With 30K account I'm now trading less frequently and focusing only on swinging for colossal home runs as risk of small account ruin is negligible - starting with Copper - Im short today and looking for capitulation by end next week. Enjoy the copper horror show:D

Some skills maybe found in poker playing but its not a straight line formulae nor a necessity to play poker as a prerequisite to make money consistently in these markets - the best poker players in the world will lose trading if they have no other core skills required in the trading arena...

I haven't posted for some time - when I started this thread I wanted to demonstrate publicly how to turn 10K into 100K but realized I could not do so without revealing too much information and also it affected objective thought process, so I stopped. I will update equity periodically with...

I got smacked on that Nikkei trade - loss $450. But then things are really interesting in em Stock Indices - for those that didn't sell out longs today was your last chance - the great train wreck is about to roll and will be putting out more shorts on Stock Indices :D

Raw Sugar prey flees the lion, no worries get em next time:D

P&L 3 - attached On softs I was targeting Raw Sugar long and guess what no fill price skidded - damn:mad:

I think I already answered most of those questions in previous posts. I trade stock index futures, anything trade-able in futures arena I trade except for toxic single stock futures. Stops are determined by whats required to make the trade work not just money. It does not mean...

In the meantime and in-between time - short Nikkei positions are carried over-night.

To maintain DX long position it was my requirement it decisively cleared today the high made on 16 June. The exact opposite happened trend not confirmed giving me a clear signal to run for the door. DX is back into consolidation - anything can happen here either back up or down - so I bailed out...

Nikkei 225

I bailed out of DX early today with a modest $1000 profit following price utter rejection to clear 76500. Well lion's kill is taken away at time by a pack of hyenas. Gotta live with them they need food too. Current Positions - short Nikkei 250 futures with price going against me. :D...

OK point noted - I have updated record. However my plan was to update that record only once on a weekend but I will do it each time I close out a trade profit or loss. There will some differences in P&L because although my base currency is USD but I'm actually holding the account in USD, Euro...

OK Noobs - Following on the long USD strategy I took some quick wham bam thank you mam profits on a correlated $DX trade yesterday - short Mexican Peso. The idea there is a lion needs calories from small prey before going on the big hunt. I remain long DX over the weekend. CME 1 MXN-USD...

When I say no hard rules - it doesn't mean I'm operating in a chaotic environment. For example - because I trade multiple markets it would be silly to have a hard rule that says don't lose $800 or something stupid like no trade after 3 losses or take profits after $500. Read again what I...