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I have a million dollars, i bet quite a few ppl in the states have million dollars as well. The only problem is that if i were to realise my 1 million dollars i would have no place to live. Alot of ppl in australia (where i live) and the US are millionaires simply because of inflated house...

trade multiple uncorrelated strategies at the same time. It will reduce your risk greatly, and if the strategies are decent ull still get a very nice return to compensate. Of course if ur discretionary, well then u will have alot of problems doing that.

in fact teh lower IQ u have trading teh more successful u will be IQ is only imporatant when constructing trading strategies. When trading best scale ur IQ back to 70 or 80, be a vegtable and follow ur plan

:P yes and i trade roubles as well

Cant really compare account sizes between different types of traders. For the majority of daytraders/scalpers out there, they arnt able to generate the same returns with say a 1 milion dollar account as they are with a 100k account due to liquidity, esp if your lookign for only a few ticks...

10 million is about right. Enough to buy the boat, car, house, investment house, holiday house and still ahve some left over to fund a decent account size to generate cashflow :D

give both a strategy which is extremely difficult to trade mentally and emotionally due to whipsaws and high probability of u being wrong. Original turtle system or 20day breakout isnt a bad bet. My theory is that if a person can trade a 20day breakout strategy mechanically, unemotionally...

Dont trade equities but i was interested in military equipment many years ago Raytheon (not even sure they listed) make missiles and their most famous product is teh venerable hellfire Missile. WOuldnt be a bad bet if u go to another war

Is it just me or is it possible that North Korea have bluffed a nuke explosion? I mean the nuke was 500-1 kiloton in size. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001735.html Americans have tested 700+ton conventional explosives. Besides detonating...

even if you make a perfect hedge u cannot possibly know the basis (physical price - futures price) at the end of your trade. So there is always uncertainty/risk in a hedge due to basis risk. In regards to options u can never construct a truly delta neutral hedge over an extended period of...

LOL u want expensive. hahaha going long on a "hunch" when my system said go short. 3 days later as i was peacefully asleep in australia the NASDAQ crashed with me having no stops on. I lost 20% or 10k of account equity that day.

To paraphrase Donald Sutherland in The Italian Job: There are 2 types of traders: Those that trade to enrich their life Those that trade to define their life. And his piece of advice is very good: Dont let trading define your life

also need a good book on writing EL and not the pdfs. plz pm me with links. thanks :D

Just have brought Tradestation 2000i Build 822 just wondering whether I can use the easylanguage tutorials on tradestation to learn how to program as it is an older version. There have been no changes in easylanguage since 2000i have they?

lol skim pricing. theyll drop it down after a few mths just like sony with their psp or intel with their duos. Patience :D

even better if only i could quantum entangle my system with the market :(

speculators in economics are generally seen as being rewarded for taking on risks which other market participants dont want to take on. economic theory regards speculators as simply all liquidity providers for hedgers etc. however this has become increasingly outdated. one look at some highly...

hmm anyone gotta link?

Ive never traded options in my life, but i do trade futures. One thing has interested me in the last few weeks. That is writing deep out of the money options at values approximately equal to the bollinger band values If those bollinger band values are pierced repeatedly then on the...

countertrend strategies are a unique balance of trying to avoid the 7sigma events but generating enough signals to make your expectancy positive even allowing for a 7 sigma event All guys that consistently fade the trend will have teh trend fade them at least once in their trading life. Just...