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Alright. Heres the truth. I am everybody on this board but you.:)

I've tried and tried to read that book but could not make myself do it. The best I could do was skim through it. It really looks and feels impressive but I could not get anything out of it. Its one of the few books on trading that I could not finish. I dont know why. I think the guy knows too...

Since you will be able to trade ssf's in your stock account will they also be subject to the pdt rule?

Commiso "Personaly I would rather look to play a failure of a seemingly "picture perfect" pattern... " Aha!! You are part of the problem. We must all agree not to fade these moves then they will still work....I wont fade any more if you guys promise not to, honest.... :)

The tremendous popularity of T/A has reduced its effectiveness IMO. Whats the old adage about the market does whatever hurts the most people at any given time. If everybody is following the same patterns I dont see how they can work. I think the market can only support so many people. Those...

jperl I have one problem with this book. The data he crunched was only over a five year period (91-96) and I wonder if this is enough for a true picture...

I'm a part time trader and have to work afternoons and when a trade is going my way I hate to close it out before I go. If I could use a trailing stop it would be great. Would I be able to set this up on IB's new excel program without programming experiece?

I gave up trying to outguess the market. For a long time I studied past behaviour and tried to find repeating patterns such as what happens after a gap up, down, etc. and almost always, over a long period of time, it came down to a 50/50 proposition so I would say the odds of it going down are...

You know, all kidding aside, this is a fascinating thread. Lets do a pool. I will stake my life on the law of averages. Hitman had a decent year last year and it was not that great a year. Having a full year of results, 250 trading days, how can you bet against him? Not that I particularly like...

I love it. Hitman you're a trip. How can you downgrade an institution like threei? Don't you like syrup? Just because you make your living trading you think you're better than al these wannabes? Don't you realize that free advice is worth what you pay for it. Get with it man.

duff Great post.

Pitbull: I follow the Tick religiously. I wanted to see if there was much difference between it and the A/D line.

duff: I was talking about the spike Friday around 10:45. Guess I misunderstood the other post.:(

Hey guys I need a little advice. I've been reading about the dde/excel setup and am wondering if I would be able to use it. I have no programming experience at all. I don't have excel2000 but would get it if I could do this one thing. I want to instruct IB to run a .25 trailing stop on an open...

Dufferdon: I'm not quite sure what you mean. I shorted it at 39.20 and set my stop at 39.43. It was never hit. It came close. I'd have to go back and check but I'm pretty sure those are the numbers.

I've been on a number of forums with different subjects and they are all the same. 10% information, 90% bullshit. I still enjoy it. Every board has its TraderRX. Every board has people bickering at each other constantly. Kind of like Life..:)

I cannot find a symbol for the advance/decline line in Qcharts. Does anybody know if they have one?

Sharp I trade 100 qqq per trade. It costs me $2 per rt. Right now I'm breaking even on my trades approximately half winners/ half losers. So I'm paying $2 a day for the privledge of learning how to trade. Using your figure of $7 a rt for the NQ it would cost me 3+ times as much trading the...

You may think this is silly but I promise you, you can learn something from it if you are just starting out. There are a number of poker software programs out there that you can download. Here is one I really like: http://www.downloadfreetrial.com/games/game3278.html It is really good because...

Why do you bother changing identities?