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Your life is what you make of it. That is the best advice I can give you from my personal experience. Although trading for yourself and working in corporate america has it's distinct differences, they mimic each other in that they both carry a certain level of stress and frustrations...

Excellent post. You just touched on one of my pet peeves with the educational system nowadays. Kids are expected to follow cookie-cutter thinking and are penalized for visualizing outside the box. It's this creativity that fuels advances in technology, arts, scientific discoveries, and yes...

Don't ever underestimate the effect that "natural" supplements have on an already unstable person's psychological and emotional state.

Perfect example of how to overcomplicate things.

Tonight I shall make passionate love to a wealthy 80 year old woman in exchange for assigning me as the beneficiary of her will and thus, her estate. Nobody can resist the Don Juan in me, so she will surely pass away after just a few hours. If I do this every night with women valued at a...

I found a nickel on the ground today. It took me all of 2 seconds to spot it and pick it up. Let's see, if I keep this up I can find 14,400 nickels per day (8 hr day) which translates into $720 per day or $187,200 per year (without considering vacation or sick days). And no taxes. I beat you. :p

I do not believe this can be done with Yahoo. However, if you pull a 1 day chart on MSN and export the chart to excel (or a CSV file), the data will reflect 5 minute increments. A bit cumbersome, but it's free :). Otherwise, any decent trading platform will allow you to view charts in both 1...

Thanks for the heads up on google. Linking news events to stock price activity definitely makes the job easier. Unfortunately, I was hoping Google would provide older news articles related to the company being researched. Yahoo would purge the articles after a certain amount of time (roughly...

yeah...make sure he takes Andy Rooney with him.

Rayston is providing some very good points. The following additional ones are intended to help promote a long term view towards trading (or investing...whatever you want to call it). I would learn to set stop losses that will accomodate your style of trading. Swing trading and position...

You also have to take into account what type of instruments are traded by those that fail, their educational background, their trading style, money management, etc. Assuming that the 90% figure is accurate, I'd say it is safe to eliminate 75% of those based on lack of knowledge alone.

I thought about that. But then we still have the issue of a poster asking how to make $1M in 3 months out of $50K. My scenario would be a win-win situation for everyone. :eek:

Piece of cake...Take that $50K and sign off on a life insurance policy for $1M. Wait 3 months then plug yourself. Wait until the wife receives the settlement check, then reincarnate yourself and go off to live the life you always dreamed. If unsuccessful, hold yourself for ransom. Tell the...

forgot to mention, these would be close to the money spreads (anywhere from 20 - 30 points out).

Question for the board - A while back I would sell credit spreads on the SPX but gave it up due to liquidity frustrations. I simply could not get filled even after shaving off anywhere from .10 - .25 off the mid at times. I've been looking at index spreads again, particularly the RUT...

FINE This is the word women use to end an argument when they feel they are right and you need to shut up. Never use "fine" to describe how a woman looks this will cause you to have one of those arguments. FIVE MINUTES This is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your...

1. I am hungry = I am hungry 2. I am sleepy = I am sleepy 3. I am tired = I am tired 4. Nice dress = I'd like to have sex with you 5. I love you = Let's have sex now 6. I am bored = Do you want to have sex? 7. May I have this dance? = I'd like to have sex with you 8. Can I call you...

So what CAN you bring...sheez!

1978 Camaro Z-28. Black on Black and had a 350 V-8 with minor work done to it (carbs, headers, ignition, etc.) Beautiful car that got a lot of attention...when it ran. Sold it a few months later out of frustration and bought a 1987 nissan sentra. My life went downhill after that...:(

Ok Dude...these are a few items to think about: "Well, I may have all my eggs in one basket, for now" This is never a good idea. Not now...not ever. You are better off paying a few more bucks in commish than concentrating your trades in 1 or 2 equities. "I have set a pre-detirmined...