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Nonetheless, you still were compelled to make your post. Nothing gets ignored. Everything gets filed away for future use in the secret Max files. One question....why bring this up now? Festering too long? Happy Hunting, RS

Interesting comment...what was the FIRST worst trading book you ever read? BTW, my take on Douglas's book was it could be boiled down to one page. Maybe one sentence: "Trade without fear, but not recklessly." (which always made a lot of sense to me...still easier said than done...like...

Yes, that is essentially what I am saying. Some brokers have an edge. A rich kid from Great Neck may have started with a good book and not had to do much cold calling. I know one guy from Great Neck who had only his father's account to start. The day he passed his series 7, he was given the...

Paying top dollar for service is what guys like Steve Cohen do. Setting up accounts is hard work. Getting brokers to pay special attention to your account is hard work. Having brokers call you takes making it worth their while. Churning your own account occasionally...generating commissions to a...

My computer (main computer...Toshiba 2 gig Pentium 4 laptop, 512 mg ram) is just over a year old. I have been considering re- formatting my hard drive. I have done it plenty of times in the past, but probably 95% of those times were with DOS, Win 3.xx, or Win 95 (once or twice with Win 98...

Is this intentional irony? :confused: :confused: Peace, RS

I have been using it for several months. It certainly does not compare to a regular telephone connection (even though their web site claims it is as good as, if not better than a phone connection). However, it has a HUGE advantage over other voice messaging programs (like Yahoo). That is that...

a/d line, and tick are very different. Charting the tick (tiki for dow stocks) seems pretty worthless to me. It goes from negative to positive many times during the day. If you are not familiar with what these are (and it sounds like you are not), you should study up on what the "trin" is...

This makes sense. Seems too obvious that you can read that it's ok (lawful) to order a 90 day supply of drugs from another country, yet what is to stop anyone from ordering 90 day supplies from several sources? It seems that if it were that easy, Oxycontin would not be selling on the street for...

tinnitis is a symptom of several disorders. Some of which are well understood and some not at all. Menieres Syndrome is one that is understood. And is treatable (not curable). I am familiar with this because my wife had it. She had two surgeries to alleviate the symptoms. (tinnitis being...

The real problem is that rumors account for perhaps the majority of issues that are brought to the attention of voters during political campaigns. And if not "rumor" by definition, then the distortion of facts. Sometimes by outright deception (Kerry/Fonda photograph as a recent example), or by...

RUMOR....what does that mean? I heard Aphie and GG are going to be drafted at the Republican Convention (Aphie on top, GG as VP) because the RNC has decided that GWB is too vulnerable now, so they want a stronger ticket. I am not 100% positive if this is true or not. But that's the "rumor"...

Yeah, well Mav, you know that you cannot debate this issue rationally with GG. I think GG is so carried away with his anti-religion campaign as to be questionably sane ..... Sort of like you with GWB:) Both of you are bright guys. Both of you have level headed observations and...

Too funny!!! Aphie back in top form!!!! What GG and Longshot don't seem to grasp is the definition of the word "faith". What is so hard about this? It's a rather simple word to define. It's in the dictionary in case there is any confusion. Accepting that others can have "faith" is really...

I do not believe there is any limit to the number of candidates that can run. Anyone can be on a state's ballot if they go through the qualifying process. Aphie, have you ever voted in a Presidential election? There are ALWAYS more than three candidates in the majority of states! Look it...

Yes, I see where you are coming from. But keep in mind that when you can use trailing stops, and that stops are guaranteed (other than over the weekends), there is no reason to close out positions that are in your favor until they close themselves out by hitting your stops. There is little...

Ditto....it jumped out at me and I was saying to myself "What the hell???" Obviously Aphie only made wording errors. That is understandable. But these two in the same sentence truly defy the laws of probability. Which goes to prove that anything really is possible. I would think that this...

I disagree. The reason is that I think selectivity is more important. If you can make one good trade a day, that should be enough (depending on the size of the trade of course). When I was trading equities heavily I traded around 200,000+ shares a day. But my winning percentage was not much...

Mav, great post. Very insightful. I am impressed!!! How can a guy as savvy as you be so supportive of GWB? You seem to intelligent. Peace, :)RS

I have just started trading a real account after spending quite some time using several different demos. While it is true that the cost of the spreads is significantly more than paying a commission with a one pip spread on futures, I have found (so far) that this is not really a factor in my...