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    A scoop for not paying tax :)

    I read the story of a guy, who refused to pay his tax for many years because it would be unconstitutional and Internal Revenue Service was unable to sue him legally :D. I can't find the name of the guy and its story but I have the source for the law: In the 1980s, a man named William Benson...
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    if saddam were to die

    Then we will make a rally... and after that like Ben Laden who was said to have been killed he will reappear and everything will become dull again :mad:
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    What book or class influences your trading today the most?

    Because of my background from Quality Engineering it's from Walter Shewart from Bell Telephones and Edwards Deming his student who were the first to conceptualise and put in practice the concept of randomness in industries with a first publication in 1931. In fact for a long time it was...
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    Trading Maxims/Quotes

    Yeah for one dollar spent for education in United States 5 are spent for building prisons. That makes sense :confused:
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    Trading Maxims/Quotes

    Funny quotes showing the "new economy" fairy tale was an old story used at least twice. Sorry I don't have the original english version but the translated version in french magazines but it's no problem with babelfish automatic translation see at the end :D "De nombreuses vieilles règles...
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    Trading Maxims/Quotes

    "My first rule is not to lose money. Losing an opportunity is minor in comparison, because there are always new opportunities around the corner." - Burt Dohmen
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    'Flow', 'Mastery' & The 'Way' of the Trade

    Demings, the Quality management guru said in his book "Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit. In fact it is only by illumination of outside knowledge that we may observe that we are in the pit"...
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    The story of the trader who won 3 billions / year

    You are for the law then tell everybody this :D In the 1980s, a man named William Benson, a former criminal investigator for the Illinois Department of Revenue for 10 years, made the astonishing discovery that the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America was...
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    Why PDT and others THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE BREAKS THE NASDAQ SCANDAL

    http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/journal/jfidd.htm THE BIG NOISE FROM COLUMBUS: THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE BREAKS THE NASDAQ SCANDAL, Investment Dealers Digest, May 22, 1995. (excerpt follows...) If you think the Journal of Finance is just another dusty, ivory-towered publication for egghead...
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    The story of the trader who won 3 billions / year

    The story of the trader who won 3 billions / year http://edwardjayepstein.com/archived/milken.htm He is the one who permitted the new riches like Turner to access the super elite. In fact it seems he became a threat for them as Jimmy Goldsmith one of the super elite revealed (see last page...
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    Equivalent of gamblersanonymous for traders :)

    Does the equivalent of http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ exists for traders :D If not so why ?
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    Why gamblers anonymous and not

    traders anonymous :D http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/
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    Using Margin for More Positions

    It is not the risk PER trade that is important but the TOTAL risk. What you don't seem to understand is that taking more positions is equivalent to using more leverage and more leverage is more TOTAL risk. You think that you will benefit from diversification. Diversification only works...
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    Know Thu Self :)

    I read that here http://www.gifted-resource-centre.org/MoralAwareness.html http://www.gifted-resource-centre.org/
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    Know Thu Self :)

    I remember once having given back a psychologic test paper saying that I won't answer questions based on tests that was created at the beginning of this century for detecting mad people :D I am most interested in hasard that's why I found amusing the answers of the software above. Apart from...
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    Seeing a psychologist

    Sure he said that since he is a psychologist :) Do you know that he has a lawsuit against him for promoting one of his "successful" trader that blew out clients account because he was so confident about Van Tharp support so don't never expect too much from a guru. Mobley's clients file...
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    Regarding the "I'm a Loser" threads

    I don't think that many said that they should continue at all costs. I said myself that if they can't afford it financially they should not keep going on. As for weeks or months well even some well known traders said that it took them years. It much depend on chance also. If you have chance at...
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    Using Margin for More Positions

    20 positions ? So your risk per trade at time t can approach 10%. Don't count on diversification because there is no diversification in a hypercorrelated assets space especially in crisis situation where individual risk of assets then behave like magnetic materials all aligned together towards...
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    Know Thu Self :)

    My first name is the name of an inventor that's why I erase it since I don't want to be known - it's the fault of my father, who was said to be a genius and to be an original person (because I haven't known him very well after 7 since he was sadly killed). As for my birthdate well I'm Lion : you...
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    Know Thu Self :)

    It's fun to wake you up :D
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