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Are you saying these companies employees are 100% honest and sensible? (when they could be desperate for money at that moment) It just takes one to show you are 100% wrong.

A plan to earn millions by the right way may not come so easily as an opportunity to use your advantage of insider's "know-how" to gain access to cash flow,and this "know -how" far exceeds the technology of conventional hackers from outside. Many rich biz man and actors/actresses own...

If online hacking is happening to trading accts, isn't Internet Banking/wiretransfer another excuse for funds to be misplaced and blame put on phantom hackers? Sometimes these hackers who think they are so smart do not understand they are just victims for diversion from the real...

Can someone else monitor your keystrokes in your immediate wireless vicinity even if you are using your own laptop/pdas/hp through special keylogger technology?

Can someone else monitor your keystrokes in your immediate wireless vicinity even if you are using your own laptop/pdas/hp through special keylogger technology?

If an employee is only getting an average pay of less than 50k/year, all the more he/she would take the risk of siphoning the millions out from various accts and migrating, sucking pina colada under some coconut tree on some remote island... :D

Just wondering , can someone else monitor your keystrokes in your immediate wireless vicinity even if you are using your own laptop/pdas/hp through special keylogger technology?

What if all these so called 'hacking' is done internally? While all the attention is diverted by media to outsiders hacking into the systems, can an insider trade discreetly using your capital and transfer only the profits slowly out from like 10 relatively dormant large accts (used by...

This is not an assumption...see the charts when bernake speaks, cpi/ppi, beige book, non farmpayroll,etc data release, not to mention earnings calls from major companys... The major data are released almost every other day and intraday...which greatly affects your CONTINUITY for trading...

writing options has an advantage of winning if market moves in your favour and sideways... 66% chance of winning? so is writing naked puts gambling? Who writes naked put to make consistent income? What is a good product to write? commodities,stocks or indices? Any recommendation...

BlackJack and poker allows you to cut loss or continue. Roulette does not. But methods of controlling risk/money management have been implemented in these games too. For trading, you should have a stop loss level before even entering the trade otherwise this continuum would be severly...

I am glad there are some sensible coments and opinions. What I am really interested is to discuss concepts on gaming/gambling theories implemented in trading systems. Methods of risk control/money management used in gambling that can also be applied in trading. Expectancy in gambling...

As I said, this thread shows some "successful" traders still need a course in common sense.

Check this out http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47844

Finally, someone with common sense

A fortune teller once told me " Whatever you buy...must go up; whatever you sell...must go down. Otherwise don't play!"

Books,live trading,back/forward testing...what about gurus and seminars?

Fixed Probabilities...I like that. Tell me more on how to FIX my chances so that I can have an EDGE.

So What is the expectancy in trading? If it varies, then it is as subjective as gambling. For those who believe statistics can improve trading, you should take a class in common sense.

If every moment in time is independent of the next, then trading is no different from gambling (except you cut loss bit by bit). Every event in time is mutually exculsive like in lotteries, therefore historical data/technical analysis is just a self fullfilling prophecy enforced by...