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i've looked around, but I can't find out how you pick your stocks for use with opening orders.

congratulations on your streak. Take a little money out if you can and take your wife/girlfriend out to a nice dinner.

"Who is better? The trader who has a 50% win rate at a 1.5 w/l Ratio or the trader who has a 60% win rate with a 1.25 w/l ratio?" The answer is that neither one will ever amount to anything, unless they learn to be more selective in their trades and increase their risk/reward. Its a hard...

you know I might believe that if you were willing to post your name, but i'm sure you don't want to , so save the horatio alger BS.

actually there is a nice tax break for buying SUV's right now.

if you wanted to short spy you should have done it yesterday and be covering today.

"Suddenly he seems to understand alot about tech when the price is low enough." you got it. To sell insurance, you want people to have fear. To be a vulture and get people to sell you things cheap, you want people to have fear. Buffett is preaching fear, he is a very shrewd man and he...

hmmmm, i always thought you had to be the shareholder of record in order to vote.

if you have a stable job and you are buying gold for the long term then everything is just fine. If you are daytrading your brains out and mostly going long for the past couple years then you may want to reexamine what the hell you are doing.

The bars are just lumps of metal, but you will be able to get a better price sometime this year, don't sell unless you are desperate. The coins you should keep in your family, you will regret it if you don't.

msfe, if you can't win an argument just change the subject to some bizzarre tangent like make bush pres. for life. Go find yourself an argument and come back later when you are ready.

I was speaking in general , not in regards to your particular order entry system. I'm sure you understand that shorting means selling something you don't own long.

Perhaps its just my personality, but I prefer the guys that are doing things well and getting the job done rather than writing books that are part autobiography, part fiction, and pretending they are educational.

if you are selling something you don't own long then you are shorting it, regardless of the uptick rule.

I think they are using "smart" torture instead of the old fashioned kind, which I am in favor of since these people don't really have any rights as ordinary criminals or POW's. Sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, drugs, etc. are legit. I would draw the line at the old fashioned torture...

Go to www.marketocracy.com if you want to try managing a $1 million fund in a monitored competition where you can't cheat. You also get free automatic analysis of your fund like volatility, beta, alpha, r squared, etc. it is a mutual fund, not a hedge fund, and only fully paid for long stock...

true magna I have never had a 75% win ratio, unless you are talking about 3 winners out of 4 trades. I consider that a hot streak and not to be counted on but just enjoyed while it lasts.

"If your average trader was qualified in another field and if this wasn't so addictive the trading rooms would be pretty empty" you have hit on a major issue, which is opportunity cost. If you are earning McD's pay daytrading, or nothing, then clearly you have to question your business...

I saw that ad on Monster which is what caused my interest in them in the first place. it makes checking out this message board worthwhile right there to avoid getting sucked into a losing situation.

very interesting , reminds me of the whole JPM scare regarding gold derivatives.