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    Nice job TradeStation!

    According to Tradestation,"CME is experiencing an issue with processing messages".
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    Trading e-minis with $1k starting capital

    If your hard stop is 3 tics and if your strategy is built on trading the morning session between ... and ... and if you make between 7 and 10 trades on average; and if every 20 trades give you more or less the same stats as 50 trades and 100 trades; and if these stats are wins >75%, breakeven...
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    Trading e-minis with $1k starting capital

    How do you figure that? Unless your system has a 100% W/L ratio, it applies to all styles and timeframes. That's not my opinion, it's a fact. QUOTE]Quote from fearless9: What you are saying may well apply to a particular style and frame of trading. However to take an ES...
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    Trading e-minis with $1k starting capital

    It seems to me that there is an assumption made by many on this thread that the following is true: positive edge + solid rules x rock solid discipline + excellent money management = success. That is not true. Think probabilities and statistics (random distribution outcome) longest...
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    Trading e-minis with $1k starting capital

    Good Luck to you IndexScalper. Absolutely possible...highly improbable.
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    3/11/08 Video: "Dear Jim Cramer, should I sell Bear Stearns?"

    That wouldn't surprise me. I'm just reporting what he said the next day on CNBC in that hyper, high-pitched, only a bat can hear hysterical delivery of his.
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    3/11/08 Video: "Dear Jim Cramer, should I sell Bear Stearns?"

    My apologies if this has already been mentioned, because I did not read every post but Cramer was called on this by Erin B. on CNBC and he stated taht he was not referring to BSC common shares, which he had said were worthless days before, He was saying not to remove your accouny if you had...
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    Guy loses $800 million selling BSC puts on the open!

    As Austin P stated: 1 put option = 100 shares of underlying stock 1,000 put options = 100,000 shares of underlying stock A 10 lot = 1,000 shares, not contracts. 450 shares = 4.5 contracts, which would have to be rounded to 4 or 5 since half contracts aren't traded.
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