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vhehn, excellent post. They say, look at your girlfriend's mother to get an idea of where your wife is headed, and that seems to be so (she'll of course be looking at your dad's balding head and potbelly) as you're expected to get older too. I started working out in my late 30's and by 40 was...

If I had my druthers and could be 25 again, I would really want my almost twice as old brain and accumulated life wisdom, and to remember not to marry my first wife.

I'd rather leave some on the table by exiting later, if that's more profitable then setting a target and leaving too early, which is what I found in my case. Whatever works better for you, of course, but I found that I shouldn't decide when enough is enough. Certainly, a longer timeframe sets it...

Mom? Is that you?

The Keys. I'm so thinking I want to move there from NY. But NY spoils you. It's the capital of the world, everything's here. Makes me wish I was born somewhere else just so it'd be easier to move to the Keys. Or Bermuda.

I haven't paid exact attention to the phenomena, other than reading many times how people are attracted to whole numbers, as well as threshold-type round values such $50 and $100. You've probably heard that you shouldn't have whole number stops (such as $90.00) but a little more or less than...

I read about an experiment where a group was given $30 each. Then they were asked whether they wanted to take a gamble. About 70% of the group said yes. Another group was not given money and also asked if they wanted to take the same gamble. About 30% said yes. Apparantly, people are more...

What about the thought, which may even occur to MBAs, to consider the cost of opportunity lost? For example, a 28% loss needs more than a 28% gain just to break even, and looking firstly for a 15% gain, but then having that knocked back because of losses and needing now a 30% gain in order just...

Or try www.bollingeronbollingerbands.com

Hey, maybe they should make a "rude insult obnoxious post permitted here" or some such category so anyone who wants to post a thread under that group can and those that don't want to come across that in their reading can stay away?

I don't know either, but now I'm scared for life. I can never again use the word 'analogy' without snickering.

Think maybe it was your signature line that did it?

My post is missing. I made an analogy between indicators and thermometers and temperature and price. I didn't use the word 'analogy' at the time... so i don't know what part of what word the censor program might have found offensive.

This was just publicized in recent nobel prize winning studies. People will take a gamble if the cost is low in proportion to the payout, even though the odds are extremely against their winning, but not take a gamble if the cost is higher is proportion to the payout, even if the odds are in...

Currently, for better or for worse, I handle it it like this: At the onset of a trade: I size my position so that if I'm stopped out, it loses what it would lose if I had put on an initial trade, as if with future plans to pyramid... I enter the total whole amount of shares. That's because I...

It may not be the best of them all, but what do you think about the "Gateway 18.1-Inch Flat Panel Monitor - Grade B" http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FPD1830-1B Do-able?

You tell 'em Gordon. It took Thomas Edison over 1000 experiments to nail down the electric bulb. When asked about failing 1000 times, he responded, "I didn't fail. I found 1000 ways not to make an electric bulb." And he was older than 25 and had staff to pay. So you see, some people see the...

Oh man, who's next? Ken and Doria?

A medley of 4 tunes, if it may please the court: Hi ho, hi ho, to McDonald's job I go, if my equity hits a new low I'll be - with Gordon Gekko... Don't cry for me, harrytrader. My astrological star gave up some profits, conspired to lose, as was predicted in Weekly World News, you...

But isn't that like saying that drawdowns don't count or aren't anything to matter with so long as the trader comes out eventually successful, even though they can stop you cold?