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it came from a reliable source from a respected person with a proven track record...among other people. so no it wasn't some ridiculous statement made by a condescending hack...but thanks for the extreme analogies you used to express your views. i'm surprised hitler wasn't in there somewhere.

Thanks jazzy. An explanation I understand!

my data was backtested manually. what i have is basically on list of 4 years of trades on excel done manually (yes it took a long time). it's a list consisting the following format: June 2011 1st 5 2nd -5 3rd 5 . . . Total for month...

i'm looking at those excel files and i really don't understand what's going on. please help?

I always knew I had to leverage more than most of the people on here basically because I had low funds. However, they were still based on what I thought was worst case scenario plus a bit more based on the numbers I got from my backtesting. Also it is true that the results were pretty...

Thanks for all the support guys. The thing that was really frustrating was I didn't understand what I did wrong. I think now I know. I didn't do enough analysis. While I did do my backtesting with worst case scenarios (so hit no fills etc.), I didn't do the Monte Carlo scenarios because I do...

I have reduced size because it's gotten to the point where if I don't I will get a margin call. I've been through bad drawdowns before but nothing even close to this. I am currently down 35 points and normally I am down at most 25-30 (which happened once in all my data). Historically I have...

I've been doing an automated strategy that has been profitable for 2 years and all of a sudden this month it has been catastrophic in losses. I did 4 years of backtesting with nothing that suggests this would happen. What the f*ck do I even do now? My account is destroyed. I'm not sure if I...

Can someone please explain to me what all this going on at MF Global means for someone who was, say, in a position with a $10000 account the minute of bankruptcy? I personally don't have an account with them,(Thank God) but I'm sure a lot of people here like me are following this closely as...

When I'm winning, I feel great and like I got this shiz down. When the drawdowns start, which my rational mind knows it's a part of the game, I can start feeling like a failure again. All the negatives that people I know have told me start coming back. Thoughts of 'what if I don't make it' start...

time to put in real money and let reality test it out. i seriously doubt you will listen to any contrarians here anyway.

I gotta agree with some of the above posters here. a) There's NOTHING stopping them from writing checks to government, charities, myself...etc. Why make a big deal out of it and advertise it? (morally superior assholes...) b) all of them except one guy seems to have inherited it rather...

Thank you. I appreciate your help on this topic. I came here first because it's familiar territory and also I expect people here to know things like this the people elsewhere to understand what I do for a living. I will take your advice and look on immigration forums.

You are right in that I do not have the finances necessarily to deliver the actual "goods". As you can see I am fairly ignorant in this subject and am just going by what the site said, which by definition is what I do is it not? I am posting here because it's the only place out of several...

yea thats what i thought but then one of the places i read said the following under E-1: "Trade can be binding contracts that call for the future exchange of items."..which is the definition of futures is it not? here is the link I read that from...

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That I believe is the E-2. I'm looking to find out if I would qualify for the E-1.

Does anyone know any details about obtaining one of these as a day trader?

as usual irrelevant posts will be ignored. if you have nothing constructive to say that is relevant to the topic, go troll elsewhere.

Uh no cause I cannot afford to keep two residences and fly back and forth every year.