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About my P/L. I had basically given up and started something else to earn a living, but from time to time I just took a few obvious signals and made a few bucks, and after a month or so I realized I was averaging about a point per share a day.

Your web site looks interesting, but I can't seem to find your commissions for ZN and ZB (a/c/e). Maybe I'm just not seeing the forest for the trees.

You probably already know what I always say, but basically: futures yes, but ES and NQ too difficult. The unprofitable traders / gamblers should have no problem switching to the eminis. But my impression is that there were lots of profitable NYSE traders who will either need a viable...

The back spread (I believe it is what I would call a ratio spread, but not quite sure, might be that it is the exact opposite position) is certainly a good idea for individual stocks, since they tend to either remain range bound or make huge moves (compared to indices), and you will profit...

It might or might not have been the KGB, but I doubt that their motivation was as primitive and emotional as you suggest. Average morons think like that, not the KGB. That would be like suggesting that the CIA is going to kill some French guy now because the bad, bad French didn't condone the...

If you can afford to lose the $4500 I don't see anything wrong with it.

I remember very much looking forward to holidays when my life sucked tremendously, because I was scared of escaping slavery.

For me it was the opposite. I started being profitable when I stopped caring.

What do you care what we recommend? How are we supposed to know if your strategy will work well in a week like this one where people in the US have come up with an excuse to get away from the sad reality of their wasted lives for a couple of days?

The one profitable strategy I trade has losing trades that are several times larger than the average winning trade. I am just guessing here, but I probably have 90% winners at an average of 1.2 ticks and 10% losers of maybe 6 ticks average. It is also very short term. Just yesterday I was...

I concur. Same thing for ZN. If you want a really "easy" transition you might want to try my way: From trading equities, I tried to switch to ES and NQ, and after a couple of weeks of losses I tried ZB and ZN. Suddenly I was a profitable futures trader! I still don't know if it was the...

It depends on what planet you are trading on.

True, my lack of money does not have a positive influence on my trading, but since my immediate survival does not depend on the outcome of any particular trade, these issues take a back seat to more fundamental ones: When I doubt myself and my ability to be a profitable trader, that is when the...

He also said this week after the earnings that HPQ will be up 3 points in the next few weeks. Let's see how many weeks it will take.

It feels like we are just about due for a surprise (i.e. breakdown). But people also thought the same thing of stocks in 1996 and 1998. I bought a few calls on individual stocks yesterday, but I am already kind of regretting it. It feels more like a gamble. The key is to have very good risk...

Do you take trades only in the direction of the longer-term trend, or do you use the fact that there is a "big ass candle" as an implicit indicator of trend? ("Big ass candle" means sudden pullback, indicating that most traders are trading in the opposite direction of the big ass candle, and we...

I have spoken to some firms and would like to know everything about quantum electrodynamics.

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Ahhh, I see. I tried to look it up at www.marriem-webbstor.com but I couldn't remember how to spell that You Are Al.

I could be wrong, but I believe it is spelled "murchantile".