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Boot Key sounds nice. The next time I'm in Florida I'll take you guys up on that offer. For now, I'm glad I didn't trade the chop today. Though today there was definitely less chop. My goal is to avoid the chop as much as possible for an entire week or month. Only trade when it's easy. If I...

Alfonso, thanks for the advice! I know all of these things intellectually. It's just that on noisy days or time of days, I lose some emotional control. And keep trying to make back by trading like a madman through the noise. This is not rational. Oh well. Today was different better. I...

do you guys get get this feeling? Every single freakin' time that you set your trailing stop , the price "magically" goes to the price to stop you out, THEN nicely move in the original direction of your trade?! WTF?! It's like they know where your stop is. they are going to stop me there then...

Drinks on me man. Misery loves companionship. I got chopped and chopped and minced into fine powder and ground beef. I was somewhat positive this morning. Then got grind and grind. Then down and down. I couldn't stop. Then down. I had to force myself to stop trading. Same story...

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is this a choppy day or what?!!! i should have taken my small profits rather than wait for a bigger trend. So I got in, small profit. Didn't take it. Stopped out. Got back in , small profit. Didn't take it. Stopped out. Over and over again. I guess on days like this small profits are OK...

yabz, true. true. Too small of a sample size. You all are beginning to talk like efficient markets academics. lol. Been there done that. Anyhow, however, it's true. If you go far enough in time, then it seems like hardly ANYONE can consistently beat the market. But given any random...

Yeah, I'm aware of that. I used to be in both relative and absolute performance crowd and I do know the difference. However, I guess I'm wrong to make an implicit assumption that the sHBS tudy classified people who beat themarket by they making money as well. But ASSUMPTIOn is a dangerous...

Perhaps it's not all hopeless! 1 in 5 is 20%. Not as bad as the 90-95% losers in daytrading.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/business/yourmoney/16STRA.html You Can Beat the Market? A Study Says 1 in 5 Can By...

thanks for all your replies. Chuck, I recently got eSignal. Didn't know it could do that. But I'm opening eSignal now and I tried to go back to the 1980s and it can't. How far back does eSignal go? thanks, trader99

do you guys know of any charting software out there or website that allows you to do "partial graphs"? Both daily and intraday. For example, suppose you want to look at stock/index/futures from any two random start and end date like I don't June 2002 to Jan 2003? Or Jan 1980 to Setp 1998...

GG, I really wish you good luck in your new endeavors. Trading is ALWAYS difficult even for those who think they have it all figure out or whatever. It will always be challenging. Don't be fooled by the sucksters saying it's easy and how they are pulling in the dough right and left...

Silk, It's been tough for most people. Market is really choppy dude. I hear ya. But I think just like some people here said you have to rethink your strategy. But according to a recent post, you wrote: "03-05-03 04:39 AM worldco scam? I came to worldco with 3k dollars and a small car...

It would be "funny" if the Dow/SP goes to 20yr lows. Funny is not the word but it would be odd I suppose. Who knows. Of course, when the Nikkei bubble peaked in 1989, then bursted in the early 90s, we said it would never happen here in the US markets, because we are not so crazy and...

By Marshall Loeb, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 1:58 AM ET March 1, 2003 It was Tolstoy who wrote, memorably, at the beginning of "Anna Karenina," "All happy families resemble one another; but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." More than a century later, you or I might...

Cal, Yes, I agreed. I'm not saying it's impossible to make money nowadays. In fact, I'm still surprised that there are still plenty of good moves if you are patient and careful about things. In fact, in some twisted ways, I'm doing better now than a year ago, even though I don't think...

Yep! You all gotta seriously look into what's wrong and change or even quit. Cutting losses in trading and in life choices are both good philosophy to live by. I hear a lot of people on this board saying that they will giveit 5 years or X years etc. That's good determination and all. But...

Yep. But that's easier said than done. With hindsight anything is possible though. keke. But it's true. If daytraders had just short the index and went to sleep the last few years they would have done quite well. Or short index futures and went long gold and oil. Oh the possibilities...That's...

The New Age of Options Intermarket Linkage By Christopher Faille, Reporter Monday, February 03, 2003 WASHINGTON - The U.S. options exchanges implemented a plan, long urged upon them by the Securities and Exchange Committee, to communicate electronically with one another (intermarket...

Here's an article on Bloomberg magazine about the booming FI market and traders. http://www.bloomberg.com/marketsmagazine/cv_0303.pdf trader99