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i'd also like to add that the problem with America is also the media - it only seems to focus on all the negativity that's out there, there is a bit of good in this country, but we rarely hear about it - how do you suppose we get inspired to work hard or learn about people that we can look up...

...i made a note to read PUB17 on my tax folder for next year. and i think i might also take a class on tax prep and taxes in general - thank you very much for your advice.

i thought about doing it myself, using a tax software, etc...but I hesitated since its my first year filing taxes. But next year, i think i will do it myself - now that i have seen how they are done - it seems fairly simple.

update...might help someone else just got my taxes done at H&R block online, the total cost was $169.85 (full service tax prep).

Hello, where can i get my taxes on my options trading done cheap? ...I have day traded options last year for about 4 months, and i didn't make any money overall so i just want to file my taxes - just so the IRS won't bother me. That was my first year in trading and i have no experience about...

Hello....if anyone has been trading for more than year: how often and to what degree do the markets change? and did you have to change your trading strategies/system? - if yes - were they major changes like moving to a different market or creating a new strategy or just small changes like...

that's like saying, "well, if you practice hard enough for 1 or 2 years, its not very hard to run a 4 minute mile." people aren't stupid, trading is difficult (until you master it - it might take a while to master it though!)

OEX is options expiration day, correct? would u mind sharing how it affects the market? please, i am not aware of that concept that much, and i would like to learn about it. and...i have been preparing for this trading - i take trading very seriously.

thanx for your comments guys...and i wasn't overtrading, i thought if you executed your trades exactly as you have planned - that's not considered overtrading. i had made 6 trades exactly as planned - they were all high probability set-ups - atleast from my vantage point. although, the last...

hello, well i trade the YM. and congrats about your success yesterday, you might be on the right track and just keep doing what you did yesterday - it sounds simple but that's the only way to prevent yourself from getting off the track and getting distracted from other strategies, indicators...

OEX? options expiration? hmmm, i remember people saying that options expiration dates are choppy. thanx for the reminder, i need to look up previous expiration dates. yea, i am still looking over my stops and trade management - i knew a day like today would kill me, since my stops were...

It was so frustrating today, almost every trade i placed, it went against me immediately. I wasn't prepared for a losing streak like i had today. funny thing was - i stopped at 9:50, and if i just kept trading i could have been able to make up most of my losses. this trading is so difficult...

i was also wondering about how to hedge if CME goes down...does anyone know? i am aware of FDAX but its valued about 5 times as much as ES/YM - so not really an option if someone is trading less than 5 contracts. anything better available?

i don't have much experience, so beware!...trading intraday and letting profits run - i was never really good at that, and market doesn't seem to allow them to run . But i think targets based on volatility/market conditions are better, using trailing stops is just too much agony worrying about...

i signed up an account with global futures a few months ago - probably the ideal option since i didn't have a large amount to trade from - they let you practice on one of their platforms as a demo account for a month or two for free. i like strategy runner, ninja trader, etc...you can choose...

yesterday and today don't seem choppy at all. atleast not on the 1 min charts. but 2/4 and 2/5 were choppy on 1 min charts - but not on the 5 min charts. so weird.

we have about 90,000 members on this forum who are probably serious about trading, so why don't we make a survey and establish our own statistics.

check out the premarket 6:30 - 8:30...ES had a range of 4 points for 2 hrs! it was probably one of the ugliest charts i have ever seen. i made one trade and went back to sleep:D but today's chart looks beautiful, like the ones we see in technical analysis books.

well, they made me sign a bunch of risk disclosure forms and after reading over them several times, i knew what i was getting myself into. it was a good enough warning about the risks of trading futures...wouldn't that be enough on their part? those risk disclosure forms we sign are very...

i am not their management, but i am one of their customers...so just want to make a comment: i think they offer a great opportunity for anyone to make a lot of money using a smaller account. but its up to the trader to manage the risk properly...and why would your broker tell you put stops? i...