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  1. MarkBrown

    Trading fulltime retail with $50k

    um give the money to charity and feel better for it, plus you get the tax advantage. then go to work for a trader for a few years as you learn boy im glad i gave that money away. my quote "i thought i was a trader until i went to work for a trader" then i found out i really didn't know...
  2. MarkBrown

    POLL: What is your Stop Loss Strategy?

    well since they wont recognize the stop and reverse as a stop method i had to vote i dont use stops. :mad:
  3. MarkBrown

    Trading in Dubai

    I just wanted to state that I met a fellow trader in Chicago back around 2000. He is Iranian and I have to say that to this day I have no closer friend than he. I consider him my brother. We are different in so many aspects. I listen to what he says and he listens to what I say. We...
  4. MarkBrown

    POLL: What is your Stop Loss Strategy?

    forgot one which i use stop and reverse. always in the market long or short.
  5. MarkBrown

    CTA Startup Costs

    Aaron - you know me and I have to say when I was a CTA and or associated with several different ones mainly as a principle etc. I felt differently than I do now, maybe out of fear I stuck up for them as you have. I can hear someone laughing now. I have lots more knowledge now of world...
  6. MarkBrown

    Chicago trader seeking advice

    Albert Einstein: self-taught physicist; formulated both relativity theories and won 1921 nobel prize. At age 15, Einstein dropped out of school, but he eventually earned a Ph. D. in physics. He took - and failed - the college entrance exam. After some remedial nonscientific study, he...
  7. MarkBrown

    Looking for a Trading Coach?

    yea about as relevant as that spamming link.
  8. MarkBrown

    Looking for a Trading Coach?

    1st things is to avoid like the plague the website you posted!
  9. MarkBrown

    Chicago trader seeking advice

    EXACTLY - EXACTLY - EXACTLY !!!!! SOMEONE GETS IT, THANK GOD intelligence ON ET DOES EXIST - I AM NOT ALONE... i can stop yelling now that i have found life on the planet i geuss. also note its not the d@mm money its the passion - passion makes money doing anything!
  10. MarkBrown

    Chicago trader seeking advice

    look i can see your view can you see mine? i was asked one time by the worlds greatest biggest trader. what is your educational background he asked? i responded immediately without hesitation, well tell me who taught Einstein? i was hired and worked for his group for many years...
  11. MarkBrown

    TRIN or TICK...the HUGE Question...very serious and important..please read!!

    if you know what to do with it - its killer! fyi i like the ticki and the tick too, prem dont care about much. please consider the trin again :D
  12. MarkBrown

    Chicago trader seeking advice

    both :D just couldn't put my brain in memory mode so i could regurgitate what the profs wanted to hear at test time. isn't that what college is? a brain washing so that you learn exactly what the teacher knows, dont know many teachers that live like i do. unless they teach trading that...
  13. MarkBrown

    Chicago trader seeking advice

    i belive that college is a handicap to 99.9 % of the people i know who trades very well. "other words they had to overcome" that structured idea that you can accomplish your goal through a process if you follow it and pass the test you get the grade. dont work in trading. thats why i love...
  14. MarkBrown

    Beyond the hype of hershey futures method journal

    :D i know but i want to accomplish something, like at least putting out the trash for my efforts. mb
  15. MarkBrown

    Beyond the hype of hershey futures method journal

    the difference is in your scenario as it refers to me is i am a PILOT with the utmost credentials and experience and i just read through the flight training manual and i can tell you for a fact Jack if you follow those instructions you will crash! thats the difference between you reading...
  16. MarkBrown

    Beyond the hype of hershey futures method journal

    i read thru the method myself and its typical t/a you fit the study to the past. when it fails you come up with another rule or admit you should have done this or that. all this stuff is not going to make money on a consistant basis. fooled by randomness just as the book is titled - how true...
  17. MarkBrown

    Trading System Development Issues

    ask the question - i have no book - but maybe answers. mb
  18. MarkBrown

    Day Trading don't work

    what i am saying is - i dont think i could ever be a trader cause im not good nuff. i know that i aint good nuff. so i use a tool - automated systems - developed, products of my research for my own use. they probably get me, at or beyond where traders want to be profitability wise. what...
  19. MarkBrown

    Can we bring back signatures?

    cause i was doing it before you come along and messed me up :D if i had no web site and i aint no spammer why was my markbrown.com username poofed off like i was some crap on your shoe? everyone knew me as markbrown.com all over the net now my old post and who i was is destroyed. mb i...
  20. MarkBrown

    T2W, what happened ?

    t2w followed a system of mine oddball. they started out calling it a looser - then it was a winner - then it was a big winner and that was the end of any post or comments. i had a feeling that because i was not advertising or contributing to the cash flow somehow that i was second class. i...
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