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What! All this! and trading is supposed to have meaning too.... It is simply too much to grok... ramora :D

That is easy since this is ET where a level of success often discussed is 1 ES contract point, day after day. If you could trade from a public lotto site for your entries, and then net 1 ES contract per day. That would be very good. Not amazing, but better than most do on this site by their...

I think nitro picking the time and direction would make the point that entries are not any part of Damir's system. However, if you want really random. Trade on Monday and Thursday using the California Lotto numbers posted on Saturday and Wednesday night...

There was an article in Stock&Commodities several years ago on money management. The idea of the article was to make random entries and then use good money management to stop losses and let profits ride. Over a long period of time the 3 populations all turned a profit, but the drawdowns and...

It would not only be helpful to define 'random' but also the timeframe that will be used to define success and failure of the test. What drawdown would define the test a failure? What profit would define a success? Over how many days? Otherwise the test results on any day or number of days...

I agree, off the shelf software doesn't fit any better than off the shelf trading systems. An interesting thought looking at this thread and the number of programmers who are also traders is that an OpenSource trading platform might be interesting. Some of the features of an OpenSource...

You cannot force people to spend or invest. We have a lot of experience with inflation and the debate is very healthy and passionate. There is not a lot of experience on what to do when nobody wants to buy. Why would you invest if the dollars you receive are worth less than they are today...

During periods of inflation people buy products and services because they expect the price of products will be higher if they wait. The problem with deflation is that people will not buy products because they expect the product price to be cheaper next week. If people will not buy products...

Look at the dollar instead of equities to explain the movement in gold. Money is moving out of the dollar into gold. (IMVHO) I think this is only a correction and longer term the dollar is a better bet than the euro looking at the Euro economies. I don't predict the markets, but will...

Try and 'cut a deal' with your Father-in-Law. Is there someway that would allow you to trade part-time get some more experience and some hard dollar success to show the FIL? If you succeed without your FIL's support he may not acknowledge your success regardless of how great it is. There...

During the overlap of trading hours between London and New Your the future fills are very good. Depending on the day, once the London market closes the fills start to widen. I use futures during the day because its cheaper to trade and OANDA in the evening to trade while the Japanese market...

Today, I read through the 35 pages of your posts made last year. You created a very good thread. Your decision to not post to ET when you started to trade real money was probably wise. However, I hope you can share some of your lessons learned over the past months if you have time. What...

I would exit at the open the next day. The ADX green line is indicating a major trend in the stock price series. When the ADX is this high it can mean the trend is near its end. You already have had 2 down days since the high. When the price exceeded the previous high the stock got a...

I used the VMWare package for about a year when it was first released to have both windows and linux running at the same time and found it to be a very good approach. Another option that provides both Windows and Linux is to develop your application in VC++ and then use the WINE package in...

I would agree that there is some validity to astro indicators. It is indeed a fact that every major market high and major market low has been preceeded by a Full Moon within the last 29.53 days. Not bad. Hard to trade it however... Good Trading, ramora

Your web site archive doesn't have many posts in August. What was your forecast for August 22, last Friday? Friday should have shown up in any forecast as single move down after the open. How was your Friday forecast? Did you trade your system on Friday? Looking forward to Monday and...

I agree with dbphoenix. On MarketWatch.com on July 16 there was an interesting article by Mark Hulbert titled "Many roads to riches". The article asks the question 'is fundamental analysis better than technical analysis, and is market timing possible'? According to the Hulbert Financial...

Search for 'financial web site affiliate' programs on Google and you will find a number of sites that provide charts and data that can be used on your web site. Some services just require that you also post their logo with their chart or news, other services provide charts for a monthly charge...

"Why trade at all?" The MBA trend stopped maybe before 1995, the trading opportunity will last for a lot longer. The evening news tonight had a report of a 'Red Lobster' franchise which ran an ad announcing 300 job opportunities. They received 10000 resumes for the 300 positions. The tag...

Sammy Sneed, the all time golf great, when asked 'what is the fastest way to learn golf?' replied, "Play for $100 a stroke!" The fastest way to learn about yourself; trade the S&P!