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    Peek Oil? Don't bother changing your engine oil:

    I owned a 91 jeep wrangler v6. Got tired of it after 120k miles and wanted a new car so I stopped taking care of it all together. Everyday I got it in hoping it would die....and it took another year. It ran another 70k(give or so a few 100) miles without an oil change...then the rods blew...
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    I Went To Wharton

    Easier to just turn turn off the TV and stop buying newspapers...
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    products that mirror the movement of indexes?

    E minis...Index ETFS. ES,NQ ER2...SPY DIA QQQQ.. And many many more.
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    am I a successful trader or a loser?

    For some. Just not for me. On my death bed I would rather have been busted out of trading long ago as a forgotten dream than say "I eeked out a living". IMO, there are better ways to just make a living. On my death bed I want to be able to say " I beat the odds big time and it enabled me and my...
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    am I a successful trader or a loser?

    Absolutely right. The setups and money management are the paths that pave to way to riches. As I said earlier. Home runs make for great stories but usually end with an empty wallet.
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    am I a successful trader or a loser?

    You misunderstood. Trading is a business and protect your cap..agreed. But I dont know anybody who starts a biz to just get by. Whats the point in that? Why not go work for Fedex or be a teacher then. You start a biz with the end goal of retiring a self made person via sale of the biz or...
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    am I a successful trader or a loser?

    The only definition of successful trader is one who retires on their gains. Good start, but keep your ego in check and keep plugging away. Keep going for the base hits. Going for home runs makes for great stories. But usually end in an empty wallet. The game ain't over until your broke or...
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    Renaissance Technologies Moving Into Futures

    If you wiki "Big Swingin Dick" you will get a picture of James Simmons. Unreal.
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    Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid...

    And just how much NWS stock do the Chinese own now? Hmmm..
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    Renaissance Technologies Moving Into Futures

    LOL.. I think he meant price action based strats. I would tend to agree. Trading at such high freqs you would have to ignore news..er ah gossip and fundies. A quantitative approach is much closer to TA than the geeks want you to believe.
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    Renaissance Technologies Moving Into Futures

    It has been speculated that most the of the phd`s and math genius hires are smoke and mirrors.....
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    Renaissance Technologies Moving Into Futures

    RenTec is the market. They are on the other side of most everybody here.
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    Renaissance Technologies Moving Into Futures

    On the first hand your jealousy is making you highly emotional about a man you dont even know. And on the second hand James Simmons has contributed the equivalent of several small countries GDP to autism research. Which is an epidemic in the USA if you weren't aware.
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    Deal for New trader

    I concur. Master yourself and the rest is cake. Dont need to argue past that.
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    Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart

    "who loves the kwik-e-mart... I.....Doooooooooooooooo..."
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    Interactive Brokers Lost Estimated 25 Million In Q1 On Insider Trading Of Options

    For some reason I dont feel bad about market makers losing money for any reason. Maybe i`m just a cold hearted bastard. :D
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    Good Quality Liquor

    Woodford reserve bourbon. Straight..neat..rocks....this shit is smooth and tasty. About $44 for 750ml here in NY. Come to think of it. Bourbon is all I have been drinking for the last 6 months or so. http://www.woodfordreserve.com/age.aspx
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    Traders in the Hamptons, NY (east, bridge, south, sag, amagansett, etc.)

    "Wall St East" http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=406628776&play=1
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    Traders in the Hamptons, NY (east, bridge, south, sag, amagansett, etc.)

    I live in Baiting Hollow. Cusp of the NoFo. We really need an east enders trading club. There are alot of us out here.
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    Americans set record for charitable giving in 2006

    Would be nice. But its a fantaZy.... The deductions exist. And i`m sure the recipients could care less if the benefactor is getting a break.
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