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    YM Journal

    isn't the initial breakout at ~12580 (middle blue line)? the price never pulled back to this level.
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    YM Journal

    where is the pullback and entry on this chart?
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    YM Journal

    you don't enter on the initial breakout. you enter on the pullback to the breakout point. is this correct?
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    YM Journal

    cool i'll try it. what exactly is the setups from the chart you posted?
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    Professional advantage against retail

    for professionals trading up to 1250 round-turns per month, the commission is $1.50 per round-turn. is this correct?
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    YM Journal

    does this mean the stop is the closer of 40 points or the "tight stop" you described? i am also interested in how you determined the 80, 30, and 40 numbers. if the daily range expands would you still use the same numbers? did you use these same numbers years ago when the daily range was wider?
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    YM Journal

    how do you determine the daily trend?
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    YM Journal

    what are the returns on your account and what is your max drawdown?
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    finally got money gack from refcofx

    secured lenders get paid before customer fund? that's weird. i thought all employee wages, debts owed to vendors, and customer funds need to be paid first. that's the risk of lending, even if it's secured lending. what's going on here?
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    Getting my act together

    i see how executing trades this way avoids slippage. can someone argue that it's also a way to front run customer orders? first drive the market down by shorting, then buy futures (front run), then execute customer's order.
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    Getting my act together

    does anyone know how to do this in esignal? i don't think this is a trivial thing, but maybe i'm wrong. the time stamp would have to be synchronized and accurate for all datafeeds.
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    Getting my act together

    i thought Street Trader lets you do 6 second charting whereas other charting packages only go as low as 1 min. how do you do the 6 second thing you described?
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    Getting my act together

    hi gutsytrader, where can i find Street Trader? i did not find it in a google search. i think the name is too popular.
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    NPP builds a Emini system

    here are the results if you take it back a few more years. the numbers in the earlier years are significantly poorer. i know that my data doesn't not match yours exactly, but these results seem to suggest curve fit.
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    Looking for a job

    700 english + 790 math = 1490 SAT score? highest possible score is 1600? with all due respect, how did you end up at emory with such a good sat score?
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    Career Advice: Here are my trading results

    can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you think 100%+ per year is a cutoff?
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    NPP builds a Emini system

    npp: the latest analysis seems to establish two things. 1) using one parameter for all the years is not good 2) the strategy has an edge. for #1, didn't you already determine this when you put together the first spreadsheet? for #2, i'm not sure if i agree with you that the analysis...
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    NPP builds a Emini system

    let me see if i understand. you got 42.67% in 2004 by doing the following: 1) get individual expected returns by varying the parameter from 10-99. 2) sum the individual expected returns and you get 42.67% correct? then do the same for every other year. sum the expected return for...
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    NPP builds a Emini system

    i don't understand what you're doing here. take the first set for example. how are you getting these numbers? i think i'm getting lost in the language.
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    She is 26, she made $4B out of nothing!

    the government can't follow the paper trail to find out how she got the money?
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