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I see a psychologist and talk trading with her. I probably bore here to death. lol. Anyway she has helped me alot with certain techniques to control myself and calm back down. Simple things we go over really but the accountability of me owning up to her and being honest about my trading plan...

Thanks gnome and lucky for the replys. I have an itch to buy a computer lately so I guess I'll buy a core 2 duo from dell refurbished. I have seen many of these in the vostro desktop line for under $400 with xp pro and 2 gigs of ram over the last couple weeks.

"Does anyone here have similar data/charting/order entry setup that performs perfectly in all market conditions? If so what hardware do you use?" Hey Flip, In my office I have esignal running on a p4 2.4ghz 2 with gigs of ram. Thats it no other aps. On my other system p4 3ghz with 2 gigs...

So basically I should not upgrade my pentium 4 computers until trading platforms start utilizing duel and quad core machines. I guess the question is does anyone know what charting packages and trading platforms take advantage of multi core machines? I use esignal and light speed does anyone...

You people joke, but this crisis was created by the predatory lending practices on mortgage companies. The adjustable rate, and interest only mortgages were pushed upon the unsuspecting, uneducated general public. The Federal reserve, as the central bank has a responsibility to fix the problem...

those guys with pro-firms talked differently, their trading powers are not 5k, their trading powers are: $0.5M* 100~200trades/perday*5 days*52 weeks, they just made $230k, this performance is laugable, I think they are lying, they should be able to make at least 7 digits! I don't even know...

First of all Steve didn't make $230,000 on $5000. He put up $5000 to trade and got alot of leverage. This is common practice in the prop trading industry. I am in a similar situation. I have 1 million bp because my firm gives me leverage not beacuse I am trading with a million dollars...

Actually the dollar volume is over 30 times. I stand corrected. Barely anyone trades the pit contract.

"Large traders dont trade the emini". Are you kidding me? The dollar volume of the emini is over 10 times the pit contract. The pit contract is a relic of the past.

You are making a flawed assumption that there are enough stops in the market around a given price. I don't trade with stops nor do many bots. I would also think that large traders would never put a stop in market(ex 50,000 aapl) for fear of really getting screwed. My assumption could be...

Well said Beaker. I think we regular traders (although i dabble in automated systems) are alot bigger than anyone thinks. I know i set personal volume records last week along with the exchanges. Everyday that the monster heat seaking blackboxes are turned off is a day I know has a great...

Forget the es move back then. If I recall the nq was up 450 points in a few minutes on 1/3/01. A guy in my office was taking a bathroom break, missed the move but still was able to make over $300,000 by buying anything that wasn't up over 10 dollars on the nasdaq. Crazy times back then...

Looks like it is unwinding fast today. Watch the yen to know where we are going today. Also watch if Bob pisani starts to lose his shirt.

Stocktrader you sir are an idiot. Your comments make me think you have never and I mean never made a trade in your life. Jimmygold way to kick someone when they are down. I have lost over $20,000 in a day about 5 times in my career(none latley because of risk management tools). People did...

Stocktrader said "No one gives a **** about the 10 year but speculators and daytraders and funds that dump based on news." That might be the single dumbest comment I have ever read on et. The only one who cares about the 10 year is every fucking trading desk on the planet you idiot...

Hey everyone. I have been an esignal subscriber for about 5 years. Before that I used tradestation. I like many others throughout these threads have been frustrated with esignals tech support, handling of customer issues, and most of all price. I pay now about 350 a month for all the...

Well said acerbits. Thanks for the comments whistler and its good that you can train traders and be succesful. Boib I guess I can elaborate a little more if you don't mind. I look for divergences between the a/d line and the es and other indices on a 5 minute chart. This is one of the few...

Hey Boib I am a tape reader. I think its hard to teach someone else to trade. The one year 2006 where I had the chance to train 2 traders I lost money. It was a distraction to my trading and to be honest I have alot of respect for traders who can train others to be succesful. Anyway...

I trade stocks and futures and make my living doing it. I started trading in the middle of 2000. My years net in order from 2000 are $110,000, $365,000, $210,000, $220,000, $130,000, $110,000, ($7000), and this year to date $50,000. Trading is hard and I really couldn't teach or quantify to...

Thats a huge profit. Most double down spy black boxes are only looking for 2 to 3 cents which is about 1/4 es point. LOL. The quest for smaller and smaller returns will end when world liquidity becomes tight but who knows when that will happen. Imo the endgame has already started amongst...