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IMO both Annaland and missLA are sockpuppets of MS. In my estimation, the guy puts on imaginary paper trades, has an invented girlfriend and now a phantom groupie. Of course it is impossible to disprove the existence of phantoms.

More flow than ebb perhaps... but whatever: Would it be entirely in bad taste to ask where your stop is? If you do not want to disclose it, just say so, but please no (vapid) response such as "the retail trader needs the ability to stomach more risk to ensure exceptional profits"....

Niederhoffer Investors also expect and stomach months of 30% drawdowns, according to a Bloomberg article... making 30% a year highly leveraged while drawing down the same amount 2 or 3 times a year seems unbalanced to me... actually, something seems off in the R/R there. George Soros- who, by...

"Adverse Excursion"? The point would be to know what the MAE (Maximum adverse excursion) is for your account.... But wait a minute.... did you just call this a Bull? There can not be a Bull, since there can not be an Uptrend, since Trends can not be determined! Then- how come you bet on the...

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"- Mark Twain

Yes, brilliant call. Definite meltdown has occurred. :D

Re: Niederhoffer According to a Bloomberg article, VN has some months with a 30-35% drawdown. On the other hand, his yearly return is about that percentage when things are going well. That relationship seems off, for sure.... seems he is trading with too high risk, leaving himself exposed...

Re: Shorting Tops etc.. It took me a while to figure out why Marketsurfer trades as he does: shorting new highs in an obvious Bull etc...(not that in an individual case the trade couldn't work). What puzzled me was the constant insistence that there is no such thing as a trend, even while...

When I spoke of the need to "fly on blind faith" I was not referring to faith in a guru (or JH or whoever), but to faith in one's own ability to actually discover the way markets move and to invest the patience required to see for oneself if a certain person has somethng to say or not. There...

This is about 2 different ways of looking at the trading process. At one point- it took me quite a few years- you might get to where you really want to understand how price moves and how you can tell in advance where it is most likely to move. Then you might stumble across some people who can...

The real wild gambler is the father... I mean, he worked hard for all his life and then risked it all on something he did not even completely understand??? HE is the guy that took the big risk and incurred the big loss.

Seems to happen with the electronic grains even with Limit orders...no bloody idea why

Sorry, did not paste right. Yes,with corn etc. you are correct... is the general idea that all these markets will eventually go electronic?

Yes it does, CME and CBOT together about 90 bucks a month... no big deal, of course....

ok, now i get it... thanks.

OK, sorry for the silly questions. IB tells me that I need to subscribe... If I dont, it tells me market data access has been denied... how can I enter trades then?

I have esignal for my charting. How would that work? I dont need IB charts, but I need to enter and exit trades with IB... well, actually with Buttontrader through IB

OK. So what must I do to trade these contracts with IB- subscribe to the CME and CBOT data?

Thank you. Am confused about the symbols ZW, ZC, ZS... they are the symbols for the electronically traded grains and oilseeds (correct?), but they also seem to be floor traded ACE? What exactly is the difference? Also, what is the general consensus; are all these commodities going electronic...