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Ooooo...Oooooo...Ooooo /raises hand. can i make a technical prediction? we will break 857 SPX by April 30th. Serious...May 15th the latest. Count me in with the bulls.

lol...especially gold. that word alone can get me laid some nights. they dont have to know i only trade ES.

definately in my book....i dont know why but when i tell the girls i am a commodities trader they inevitably ask what are commodities? i tell them gold, oil...index funds.....they seem impressed....thats good enough for me. when i tell them i trade my own account they seem doubly impressed. as...

i always thought they were the same...i prefer the term 'commodities trader' myself :P

thats what i pay for att's mobile broadband. iv'e had it for almost three years. its getting much, much better. average speed is 60Mbps same as dsl. i can ever drive arounnd the city with it connected. i rarely get disconnected. i'm using it with sierra charts, interactive brokers and global...

drink a bottle of good wine to help forget about it. not much you can do about it one way or the other.... if your confident in your trading and are trading that amount of capitol you should have a very good idea of your approximate max drawdown/ loosing streak. if i was exceeding my...

gold? maybe a short barrel sub machine gun and a hell of alot of ammo...lol...

earning $$$ investing is hardly mortal combat. when you can prove you put your ass in mortal danger to survive, you earn the right to use that quote...until then your acting like a coward wannabee. man up and quite acting so elitist. i know we hang out in a forum called 'elite trader' but cmon...

would you prefer civil unrest because simple people cant feed their children or themselves? fuck a mans gotta be able to eat. who cares if its digging or filling in holes. so long as they get a paycheck and feel like a human being. it may not be the best longterm plan but it can buy time until...

could be because we evolved to be the sex that takes on the most dangerous risks naturally. maybe males have the ability to endure the extremes of stress or the ability to supress/condition ourselves shorterm to potentially, the most catastrophic, stressful outcomes?

i think he's that really cool fellow in the dos equis commercials that gets all the chics.

ah ok...thank you...makes perfect sense now.

thanks but i'm confused. i was looking at brokers yesterday and i noticed one of them listed margin with an asterisk next to each contract, at the bottom it said margin for the 'spot' month could be significantly higher than listed. i was trying to figure out exactly what they meant.

as per title. i just came across this term and was curious?

why do i get a tingly feeling all over when i read this? thank you for the link.....and your help has been much appreciated. think iv'e got a very good understanding now of what i needed to know and how it will affect me....

iv'e enver heard that before...what exactly does that mean? lock limit? does that mean should a position go against you that much that they liquidate part of position regardless of account ballance?

i completely agree. i'm just trying to establish the numbers in my brain so i'm prepeared and know exactly where i stand and where i need to be regarding how many contracts i can safely trade overnight, or swing longterm.

thanks nazzdack....dont know how i missed that one. think i was on information overload at the time. i appreciate the clarrification.

ok so to effectively trade without getting that margin call at 25 points i need to have in my account +$1238.00 in excess cash for every ES contract i'm trading? by excess i mean $1238.00 above $6188.00. also do the same rules apply for long and short positions?

i trade ES and have recently developed a strategy that outperforms my old one. it does however require me to hold positions over night and trade with much wider stops. basically its longer term swing trading. iv'e never had to deal with the potential of a margin call because my other...