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First non losing day in 8 trading days. Bring out the cake, it's time to celebrate !!!

+388 first day I didn't lose money in 8 trading days. unreal

No she doesn't work, she stays at home as well. If you don't have portfolio margin you'll get your boost once you reach that. Life is much easier if you can use leverage although it obviously goes both ways.

Trust me, neither a masochist nor perma-bear (at least not knowingly). The situation was reverse in 08/09, I was super long at the end but what helped back the was I had an extra cushion due to market volatility. So when the market bounced in 09/10 I did fairly well. As it moved just up though I...

Good question ;) In hindsight I'd have done better buying S&P futures when it hit 666 and selling them later @ 1900. On a more serious note, I'm short cause my trading strategies are all mean reverting, they do well in sideway markets and the last 24 month have been terrible. I do have to say...

Couple of reasons. I use IB and Thinkorswim. Only IB provides a decent API. So most Thinkorswim trades have to be entered manually. IB is mostly used for futures and stocks and that works well with automation. Thinkorswim is used mostly for discretionary trading with options and it has a lot of...

Trading since about 05, seriously trading (> 2k trades / year) since 07. At least half the trades are automated.

I hit the magic 40 a couple of month ago and things are not where I thought I'd be at that time. Married with kids (at least that's working as far as I know), broke 190 pounds for the first time in my life and after having a terrible trading year last year this year isn't looking much better...

-3180 another day in paradise