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I've heard about those. All I know is that all of these 'student run' funds are losing their asses in the market. It's really funny when the students go on CNBC and tout whatever they own, sounding just like analysts. What gets me is even with all that education and all the money put into...

Only it's important to define the "thing" because then one has a better chance of finding/maintaining it.

who's gertsman?

I can't stand jackasses who start fights in night clubs. If I go out, it's to have a good time and to get laid. Anyone whose idea of a good time is starting fights at nightclubs, like a 6 year old at the jungle jim, is an anti-social, juvenile moron that belongs in prison. BTW, if someone likes...

Yep, only paper traded, and I don't intend to use margin when I decide to go live, at first anyway. On a side note, the paper vs. real trading shouldn't be that different. I only deal with liquid (at least 2mm a day volume) stocks and it's a swing system, meaning executions don't have to be...

iceman, let me explain. i've got a swing trading system that i've been paper trading for the past 2 years, refining it the whole time. The thing has some great ratios and statistics and has backtested well for the past 7 years (i'd test longer, but my data doesn't go back that far). Anyway...

Ok, that's a nice "piece of market wisdom," which I'm sure is true most of the time. But what about using margin in the circumstance I outlined in my first post-- not increasing your risk per trade, but taking more of the same risk. Could you explain your reasoning as to why using margin in...

not if you've got a system doing the work for you.

If every trade you take has a good risk/reward ratio, and you have positive expectancy on your side, why wouldn't you take as many positions as possible?

Ok, I'm confused. You're probably right. Here's my thinking. -10K positions of a 100K account with 5% stop loss is 1/2% total risk. -10K positions of a 200K account with 5% stop loss is 1/4% total risk, but because half of that 200k isn't yours, the risk is doubled, so 1/4% risk is really...

Ok, then instead of holding the max of 20 positions in your leveraged account, instead hold only 18, with the left-over cash waiting to cover margin calls.

Gordon Gekko kind of brought this up a while back, but the discussion turned mostly toward day trading.... Concerning swing trading only, if I had 100K account, and wanted to use 10K for each position, with 5% stop loss, that would only leave me with 10 possible positions at once, risking a...

Is finding an edge harder when the time frame is shorter? Or, in other words, are there fewer edges to be found in shorter time frames? Allow me to elaborate... Finding an edge means finding a statistical inefficiency in the market. The trouble is that (1) the market is mostly efficient and...

the nikkei didn't have a war to factor in

Are you suggesting a new forum?

The only reason I'm considering this bizarre commission free route is this-- My system's money management dictates I divide my capital into 10ths. Now let's say the avg share price of stocks I buy is $40, so if I buy minimum 100 shrs, that $4,000 per stock. Then times 10 for my total capital...

I want to go live with my system, but don't want to risk a lot of money. So I'm considering going with Brokerage America. They've got free market orders. Now before all of you warn me about crappy fills, let me tell you a little bit about my system and you tell me if the fills still matter: I...

Why would God require worship? Aren't we created in God's image? Are children required to worship their parents? If I created kids, then never appeared to them, talked to them, or even so much as sent a card, I wouldn't be upset if they didn't worship me. In fact, expecting them to worship me in...

You might have a point...if you weren't pulling that 10% figure out of your ass!!! What do you mean by finding "God"? Are you referring to some Unitarian deistic concept of God? Or are you referring to the Lord Gawd and Savior Jesus Christ? If you are referring to the former, than you've just...

So to continue the analogy, a small minority of villagers acknowledge they have no idea where the car came from, and continue to try to understand it, while the majority of theist villagers fight over which god created the Benz. They proceed to kill each other over it. They work out an elaborate...