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Grades don't matter in the trading world. If you get disappointed at yourself too easily, you will never make it as a trader. Becoming a full-time trader is going to be 1000x harder than your class. Are you going to come post on ET everytime you have a bad day? You will have lots of company.

Correction to my previous post: sell target = 5 * stop loss 20% 5R gain 80% 1R loss Should be sell target = 4 * stop loss 20% 4R gain 80% 1R loss Still 0 expectancy. Without an edge, you're better off not trading.

I like saving pictures for review on a later date. Detailed Medium http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EIXIC&t=1d&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= Crappy Large http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EIXIC&t=1d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c= I attached a chart of what the old Yahoo L Size charts looked like which is like...

Using random entry... changing the size of your target doesn't make a difference. sell target = stop loss 50% 1R gain 50% 1R loss sell target = 2 * stop loss 33% 2R gain 66% 1R loss sell target = 5 * stop loss 20% 5R gain 80% 1R loss You should be able to answer your own...

At 1 cent a share, you need to generate $10,000 in commissions just to avoid a $400 desk fee. And your $400 desk fee isn't rebated until the NEXT YEAR! Since you have your own computer, own internet and own software tools trading from home, isn't that strange there is a $200 remote desk fee?

Must define profitable... You may get some noobs paying high rates scratch out a $100 winning month and think they are profitable. How about profitable being $200 per day, 4k month on avg?

You should change a broker so you don't have these useless numbers at night when market is closed. It's really hard to trade when the numbers are so wrong.

wow, really? thanks for coming to create a login just to tell us you're going to open an account.

No, it's not for real. Why don't you sign up and then show us your trade executions for the days you are in the chatroom. They call entry prices. At end of day, they subtract the high of day - entry price and say thats how much they made for you.

Sounds like he had no intention of buying. Probably was holding plenty of shares and dumped it the few days after the news.

One of the things the market has taught me is that anything is possible. I try to be open to all the possibilities so I'm prepared for it when it happens. Do you want to have an open mind to come up with new trading ideas? Or go with the current trading tools available since you don't want...

IB has the best interest rate for a brokerage I know of. IB has a great 3.75% on my money over 10k. TS has a sad 1.125% interest on money over 10k. Do you have more than 10k in your account? Is your account a margin or cash account? You should be getting interest on your equity if you...

I notice that TWS sometimes hangs after I enter login, password and press Ok. I just close the window, restart TWS and usually the 2nd time, it loads right up. I did re-install the latest version just to make sure but it didn't help. I only have 1 page and 10 stocks.

The MOC can't be canceled so why should they autoliquidate. I also agree this would be a good solution to the problem. Maybe def or someone could pass this idea along.

I have my trading strategy implemented and it's all done through Excel DDE. I don't watch my positions since I always have stops and just check after market close. Have 3 positions today which exceed my overnight margin position. I have 3 orders to sell MOC for my positions. 12:51 (9 mins...

I don't think you know what compounding means. See attached Excel. Good Luck!

Haahaa. You are still far from being a profitable trader if you really believe that. If you started with 1 million, you would've lost 1 million. You wouldn't have traded the same size as if you had 50k if you had 1 million. No amount of money you start with will save you from poor...

I think dual and quad core will only be effective if the applications that are being run are programmed effectively to support the architecture. As for the trading programs we curently available, I don't think anyone of them will have much benefit. "single threaded process only be run on a...

Hi Steve, It's great to have someone of your caliber in the forum. Could you please post a screenshot along with your daily numbers so we may admire? Thanks!

MarketSurfer closed the shorts from page 2 on page 7 (10/19). His shorts fired on (10/20) and holding till now. Today is the 27th and that would be 7 days. Please stop wasting your time posting. Thank you.