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Can you quote where you saw the claim of being able to make "500% year after year"?

This timvodas is an unrepentant plagiarist. First he quoted Pa(b)st and started a thread on Niederhoffer. Now he quotes mcflow2 without citing source, and starts another thread! Moderator, please call him to order!

It may be nothing if it is a one-off. But if you can do that consistently, it will not take long before you stop posting on this forum!

Thanks for your feedback as well. I remember you recommended turning my discretionary trades to mechanical, and to react instead of predicting. Although I do not think I can automate all the discretionary components out of my trade (like picking a stock or option and determining entry point -...

Thanks for your feedback and your best wishes. I believe we are all still in a learning process, and should have an open mind towards all constructive criticism.

Weekly Update for week 32 ended 10/05/2007 Another good week. Once again kept the number of trades low, focusing only on what I thought were good potentials, with not too big a leverage; will step up as the good results roll in. The keynote trades were in BIDU and RIMM playing on their...

If the story is as it goes (accounting problems forcing an exit of CFO) I should expect more downside.

Was caught on the wrong side of this precipitous move.

So next month you start another thread with a new target?

There are certainly things I am doing wrong, most of which I have ackowledged (Anyone here without a fault in his/her trading? put up you hand!). Unfortunately I do not find substance on those things from most of the negative posts here. One thing that has cost me is "averaging down". My average...

That is called plagiarism . Unfortunately abounds here on ET. No citing of sources.

The target has to be realistic, otherwise it would simply be an idle wish.

Weekly Update for week 31 ended 09/28/2007 A good week to end the stream of losing weeks. Nothing remarkable except the china play mentioned below. Was very conservative in my use of leverage, and was keen to avoid taking too many trades: of course when the trading day starts, such resolve is...

Did you say you shorted KONG this morning? What broker? I sure couldn't short at my broker.

What will you offer for this challenge? Disclosing picks that will outperform the market, and potentially giving away a working strategy the trader has worked hard to develop, is not something the GOOD traders will be keen on doing.

What kny was saying is that though you saw the last traded price as $85 before the halt, that is not necessarily the price the OCC will use to determine whether to exercise or not. I would be surprised if it is not, If anything I should expect 82.45 which was the price in after-hours, not 102 or...

Thanks for the ET link. From the discussions there, it appears the broker would exercise the options, and wait till Monday morning to close the positions at the market price, after creating a big Reg-T margin call, and a restriction might be placed on my account for 90 days or so. Still an...

Does anyone know what happens when a stock (like HAR on Friday) is halted on options expiration day, and you do not have a chance to close your position before the end of trading day? I am just curious, because these are some types of trades I could easily be in, hoping to close before market...

Weekly Update for week 30 ended 09/21/2007 Another week to look beyond. Almost looks like a predictable pattern these days. At least I could say it would have been an OK week without that thing called BIDU. I seemed obsessed with calling a top on that stock. Tried a little and failed on the...

100 could get you more than 3.3 times the number of contracts that you could with 30, with risk at the same level, and therefore 3.3 times the profit expectation. So if you can return 60K with 100K, the amount you could expect to return with 30K, with the same risk level, is 18K. Is that clear...