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    Trading Expo

    I was there yesterday and today. Saw Linda Raschke speak.She is a very experienced trader,and has a lot of great info.She stresses each person has to have their own style. Spoke with some people where I have accounts and it was fun to see the face behind the phone. You can tell the profits...
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    Pre and post market trading

    I don't think their are many... most times I have seen what looks like a discrepancy it is a stuck or bad quote . Just my 2 cents. monee
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    j trader and 2 monitors

    I put the trade tickets on the main monitor and everything else on the secondary monitor and it works great!
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    j trader and 2 monitors

    A J Trader question I am using windows 98, a Linksys nic card, Linksys router and an appian dual monitor card. I had no problems with using every thing with 1 monitor but with the second monitor if you try and put a trade ticket up and scroll to change the limit price the list of limit prices...
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    NY Trading EXPO MEETING Feb 16-19.

    I'm game for 7:00 Sunday night
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    Pulling the Trigger

    great point about the subway trains. A few things that are helping me. 1. Having goals to be sticking to my rules,as opposed to monetary goals which tended to make me cheat on setups to reach them. 2. Trying to just look at charts and ES #'s and not think about the money (this is...
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    cheapest futures commission

    as I recall the cme charges the broker over $2 per side fee for e-minis traded on Globex. Don't see how you could get commissions much lower than you are paying because of that.
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    Missing the glory days of wide ranges.

    Probably not a coincidence.As a method becomes more popular people anticipate the signal and the pattern changes or when the signal occurs there becomes difficult to get in at a good price.
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    Realtick-problem with 2 monitors

    Try going to TAL INI under programs. Then where you see Real Tick, below that will be a line that says position. Highlite the whole line and delete it. Now hit file and save. Log off and see if it works. I had this problem and this solved it . Hope this helps.
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    Tight range day

    wow! I know its fed day, but s@p range 4 points today... seems like we will explode one way or the other .Can't remember this tight a range ever.
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    The 16% solution and bye-bye trading

    agree with your post. In real estate the discipline required has similarities and differences to trading. In buying an investment property to be prudent your must do your own due diligence before buying the property and check income and expenses,neighborhood,structure,potential...
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    The 16% solution and bye-bye trading

    andrasnm: I have followed your posts for some time and you appear to be a knowledgeable day trader. You say "I made and lost a lot of money it's time to say good-bye and try different things. What have your losses been due to? 1. Having a...
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    December Trading Journals

    A question about the daily list of traders profitability at Worldco. Are all traders on the list ? In the beginning of 2000 I went into tradescape and they showed me a list on the computer and it had a list of traders there.They had fictious names but it showed their account size , what the...
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    December Trading Journals

    For 1.5 million I want to sliding glass doors that open to the ocean. I have a picture of the ocean taped to a monitor .. I look at it to keep discipline and realize it wont happen if I do something stupid.
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    a neat site

    Thanks goldnucs Called Townsend today and they recommended deleting the position window, and it works fine now.Dont exactly understand why but it works.
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    Self Talk - method for changing habits

    quicktrade-- extremely beneficial area of trading to be working on for most I'm sure. I'll address some of the points you mentioned and give my 2 cents. taking trades not part of the system: I keep a diary and at the end of the day write what the strategy was for each trade.When I am...
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    a neat site

    Anyone have any ideas why in the last few days my real tick layout appears all on 1 monitor. If I stretch it out to all 4 monitors and save the layout it is fine until I log off and back on then it's all back on 1. Thanks.
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    a neat site

    interested next week to compare speed of qoutes to realtick. Minor inconvience charts will have times printed in ECT .
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    a neat site

    Great site.. can't believe it is so inexpensive! I use Real Tick with comtex news on my 2nd computer which does not have my trading account and spend $175.monthly. Doesn't appear anything is missing and it definately looks like Real Tick.Very strange how they can offer it so cheap. Thanks.
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    Are trader's skills really important?

    Can we not observe the mrkt environment ,stocks sector,and individual behavior of stock to slate the odds in our favor? If we keep tight stops and let the winners run in trending enviroments that doesnt help? Seems like your post is saying trading has the same odds as a slot machine...
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