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A buy and hold strategy.

You might consider TD Ameritrade. They own Thinkorswim. The cost per trade is $10.

Most investors are poor planners. They don’t have any goals. They have no clue how to allocate or diversify their assets or define what kinds of risks they are taking on. Then when they do make decisions they are bad judges of market timing.

Sure I will post some of my general ROT. 1. Minimize Loses – This is the most important rule by far. Failing to keep losses under control and small is the quickest way to end trading. Make sure that all forms of losses in the Trading System Strategy optimization are thoroughly understood and...

Buying dips with tight stops.

Nice rules. I have a set like yours in my trading plan. I call them my “Rules of Engagement.” I look at them every day.

What I heard was the federal government would impose a 40% tax on the value of employer-sponsored health coverage exceeding certain thresholds. Those levels were $8,500 for self only and $23,000 for any other level by the year 2013.

Nice work for reminding us of this S2007S. Congress will soon rediscover these people. It will happen once these people respond as voters. Then $10 billion will mean little.

This time it is totally different with interest rates. Government has totally screwed up our economy almost beyond recognition. I have been through interest rate wars probably ten times in the last thirty years. Two schools of thought always scream out their warnings. The first group shouts...

I agree 100% with you and what Jesse Livermore said about “Trading” general market conditions (and your fine quote below). I have read this work several times. Many of these fine sentiments are also part of my trading plan. I believe no one to this day has described better than he has how to...

Then there is Jesse Livermore and his general conditions. Here are some of his quotes: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you...

For once I agree with you completely. It is difficult to communicate with your posts that begin with …. arrogant ….. imbecile. From the time I see these words I no longer take your posts as having any “substance”. So instead I include my own brand of “substance” – those are...

I would have to agree with that Bloomberg assessment. I’m still doing well with longs with tight stops (because of the low market volume). For example I added NUE today to longs on a good pop. But it has not had much follow through with other trades so my stops will be tight. For this...

I believe what the woman was saying is that higher bond yields mean lower bond prices. If this extends into a bear market for bonds with bond prices continuing to go lower and more bond sell offs the money will have to go somewhere. And they are hinting it will end up in the stock market or...

Imbecile ... that is what general conditions are. They are not "normal" conditions they are the backdrop the prevailing conditions of the moment that are so important no one should ignore them. The Civil War (any major war), famine, pestilence, depression, inflation these are the types of...

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What I wrote was three quotes. Two from the New York Times and I copied the direct quote from CNBC. But you call me “arrogant lecturer” based on their material? Tell me did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid...

Here is part of your enlightenment: First on November 25, 2008: Specifically, the Fed said that it would buy as much as $100 billion in direct obligations from the housing-related government-sponsored enterprises—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. In addition, it...

Then Bubble Ben will start raising rates.

There is as much stupidity as there is truth to this constant barrage of “95% of all traders are losers” and “They found that the average trader's returns were about 6.5% less than the overall market. “ In the 20+ years of trading I blew accounts (my records show it was three). I did...