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Violence at home is hardly "out of control". The police do a fairly good job of stopping crazed individuals once they are notified. The government is not a "corrupt military regime". They are elected representatives, many of whom are doing a fairly good job of representing my own opinion of...

Try TradeStation. -Raystonn

Then your book is guaranteed to be filled with mention of many monkeys sitting in front of trading stations. In a random distribution there will always be a few who dramatically outperform the rest. This does not indicate any measure of skill. You must first prove the results could not have...

Liquor store owners' goals are usually to make money. One of the results is that they provide others with liquor. Real estate agents' goals are usually to make money. One of the results is that they help others to sell or find a home. Stock, option, and future speculators are...

The liquidity provided by traders enables those who wish to sell (speculators, farmers, etc.) to do so at a fair price. We provide a fair market, which is essential to those who create product. In exchange for performing this function we try to get a little off the top, like every other...

So someone who sticks $24 million in a CD at 5% APY is considered a super trader, eh? The dollar amount made is not necessarily relevant to the amount of skill possessed. A super trader should have a great deal of money coming in. But someone who has a great deal of money coming in is not...

I ran backtests on these symbols many months ago successfully. I just did it again to make sure I was completely accurate in this journal. My system is profitable with a nice smooth equity curve in EMD, ER2, NQ, ES, and YM. I choose EMD because it currently offers the best performance per...

Profit targets aren't used either. We gain or lose what the market has to offer, not an arbitrarily predetermined amount. -Raystonn

Stop losses are set according to many factors and are not a set constant dollar amount. They are used to avoid disasters and are not meant to actually be used to exit 99.9% of trades, whether they are winners or losers. -Raystonn

Yes, this is a swing trading system. I have been trading it live for about 7 months now. The live results match the system with negligible slippage. -Raystonn

If you have doubts, just wait and see how the system trades on C2. There is no reason to have to trust anything I say about past performance. Just monitor the future results. -Raystonn

Considering I just started the system on C2, it's not surprising mine is not one of the best listed. Did you bother to really read everything that was said, and perhaps glance at the system? My stats are not just backtests. -Raystonn

Ginux, those links have nothing to do with my system, nor this journal. In fact, neither of them even offers futures. -Raystonn

When done right, successful trading is usually fairly boring. At least we get to smile at the profits... -Raystonn

A system that makes 80% profit means nothing if that same system cannot keep it. -Raystonn

Assuming by "stock price" you mean the last price traded for that particular stock, the only things that influence stock prices are trades. Traders can have any reason, or no reason, to make a trade. So if you are looking for motivations behind the trades that people place, just think up some...

New trades (copy/pasted from the real-time trade list): ----- Trades Filled: Sell to open 8 @EMDM7 at market GTC Trade filled @869.10 (4/9/07 9:30 EDT) Trades Pending: Buy to close 8 @EMDM7 @ stop 889.70 GTC ----- -Raystonn

I've started tracking my trades at Collective2 as a more verifiable version of a Journal. Trades cannot ever be erased. History cannot ever be erased. The website itself determines the entry/exit prices, when you enter the trade, based on its own data feed. This mostly eliminates cheating. I...

Just to be fair to volente_00, I've started tracking my trades at Collective2 as well. Over at http://www.collective2.com/go/raystonn you will be able to see my equity curve and statistics develop over time. Trades become visible three days after they are closed. I am not looking for...

If you backtest over any considerable length of time, such as a few years, then you will find this to be untrue. -Raystonn