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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Yes 1 ES nominal value is 1120 (as of now)x $50 (point value)=$56,000.00 0.02% of that is $11.20 (per transaction)
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Guys, maybe I am missing something: the tax proposed for futures is 0.02%, not 0.25%, correct? That means 1 ES contract would cost 1120X$50*0.02%= $11.20 per transaction, or $22.40 per RT. This, while high, is not as catastrophic as the example given above...it would mean losing 2 ticks per...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    What is the percentage of total trading volume created by retail traders for the ES? Anybody knows?
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    Can you lose more than the Initial Margin?

    I don't understand why people always call futures inherently dangerous. Don't you guys know that you can protect yourself against a catastrophic event with far out of the money options? Nassim Taleb has a fund that does nothing else but bet on that event.... Is like buying health...
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    Let's Trade III, by Sicktrader

    Please go away.
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    Let's Trade III, by Sicktrader

    How so? $15K, 20 Lots: Loser 1: $100X20=$2000, now trade 17 Loser 2: $100X17=$1700, now trade 15 Loser 3: $100X15=$1500, now trade 13 Loser 4: $100X13=$1300, now trade 11 Loser 5: $100X11=$1100, now trade 10 Loser 6: $100X10=$1000, now trade 8 So your losers total $8,600, which...
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    Let's Trade III, by Sicktrader

    Sick, question about your gambling money management: If you have close to 50/50 W/L, you are bound to get a losing streak of 6 or even 8 Losers in a row sooner or later... (I know you said it is rare to get three, but that is basic Monte Carlo) how do you deal with that in gambling...
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    The 30 most costly trading errors

    31. Moving your stop to breakeven without a good reason
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    emotion control and stress relief?

    Yes. It works... there are a bunch of pros on the golf tour that use it to get calibrated between holes.. and pro golf is psychologically very demanding.
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    Yes, after you posted your lame one I just wanted to show you how it's done. Even your limericks suck: makes me shiver to think that by accident I could one day either walk into a bad play in NYC and see you as an extra or into a bad restaurant and see you as a waiter.... hard to say which would...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    There once was an “actor” called Mandel Who used a much smarter man’s handle Was he acting? not much…. He was a busboy and such But claimed he was making a bundle! His friend was guy in his cellar Who some call “the worlds most boring feller” He can’t help but post the...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    There once was an “actor” called Mandel Who used a much smarter man’s handle Was he acting? not much…. He was a busboy and such But claimed he was making a bundle! His friend was guy in his cellar Who some call “the worlds most boring feller” He can’t help but post the...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    For people like you it is not necessary to change one's message: You- Trader 666- are a sad dullard, a repetitive bore, the guy everybody edges away from at a party... you remind me of that Asian guy in Fargo.. the eternal geek....you post your examples of pathetic, mean spirited humor again...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    For people like you it is not necessary to change one's message: You- Trader 666- are a sad dullard, a repetitive bore, the guy everybody edges away from at a party... you remind me of that Asian guy in Fargo.. the eternal geek....you post your examples of pathetic, mean spirited humor again...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    But you- who actually is deluded enough to use the great Benoit Mandelbrot as a handle- are only an unemployed actor! There's an old French expression: "An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.". This became clearly evident when you chickened out of your ‘trading...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    For people like you it is not necessary to change one's message: You- Trader 666- are a sad dullard, a repetitive bore, the guy everybody edges away from at a party... you remind me of that Asian guy in Fargo.. the eternal geek....you post your examples of pathetic, mean spirited humor again...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    But you- who actually is deluded enough to use the great Benoit Mandelbrot as a handle- are only an unemployed actor! There's an old French expression: "An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.". This became clearly evident when you chickened out of your ‘trading...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    For people like you it is not necessary to change one's message: You- Trader 666- are a sad dullard, a repetitive bore, the guy everybody edges away from at a party... you completely remind me of that Asian guy in Fargo.. the eternal geek....you post your examples of pathetic, mean spirited...
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    why this board isn't healthy if you trade for a living

    By the way, is it unintentionally that you call yourselves the "B-Team"? Perhaps a Freudian Slip?
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