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Once again, everyone who doesn't trade exactly like you think is the right way is doing it wrong huh? There is more than one "it" to "get". And from the drivel I've read in your posts, I don't think you get any of the multitude of "it"s.

Why are you sick and tired? Are you sick and tired that I'm making 100%/year on my 6 figure account and only spending 2 hours a week trading it? Are you sick and tired that I sleep in every day and am not chained to my desk watching ticks all day? Are you sick and tired that my stress level...

Every retest of an old high looks like a double top. So few of them are.

I just don't get the love that people have for gadgets, I guess. My computers are like my toaster or my wrenches. They are tools to get me what I need. These "religious wars" that people have about their operating systems always make me scratch my head.

Well, they stopped making them in '74, so I think you were out of luck anyhow. :) My dad had one of the last ones that came off the line. He sold it while I was away at college. Grr. I would have bought the damn thing. :(

Ok someone please enlighten me. My buddy got a 3k top of the line Mac notebook a few months ago. I priced a dell laptop of about the same hardware at about 1600 bucks. Convince me that the mac with the same hardware is worth 1400 extra bucks.

Wow you are making trading way too hard. There are people that trade like you posted above and make money. But not very many. The benefit of a system is that the system makes all the decisions, and you just execute. If you set up the orders when the market is closed, you can almost...

This is solid advice. Please consider taking it. Everyone's path to trading success is not the same, but here are some of the things I've learned about how I should trade that I think many people would benefit from adopting. Develop a system that: - Maximizes your amount of time in a...

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0233917220070802?rpc=44 ALMOST bought some yesterday. Glad I stayed off. Looks like bankruptcy time.

I have determined that I absolutely suck at the futures markets. After this last beating I got, I made the wife promise to not let me daytrade futures for 2 years. Maybe I'll try again then. I haven't lost a crippling amount of money by any means, but it has been enough to hurt. My stock...

I've been eyeing getting something like this, but I refuse to get anything that requires you to install extra software/drivers on all of the other computers on the network to access it. This says it has software, but I can't tell for sure if it is required or it is just "helper" software. Do...

Interesting post. You use too wide a brush though. There are many different successful ways to trade. My particular way I could explain to someone in five minutes or less, and it is not only simple but easy to execute. BUT... I have. A VERY successful one. And his method is pretty...

Sorry that last link hosed up. Try this: http://www.mypivots.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1404&whichpage=9

The value area numbers you are referring to are related to Market Profile. They are used by a few on the floor, but not many. Most folks on the floor are looking to scalp a few ticks based on the edge they have being in the pit (yes this is an actual edge, not the edges all these home traders...

It took me a couple thousand hours of study/pain to finally come around to this way of thinking. I rarely spend more than an hour of the time the market is open doing anything with my positions. I spend another 10-15 hours a week when the market is closed studying my positions and looking for...

I would definitely recommend starting with volume 1. He lays down the foundation in volume 1 and 2 and shows you the basics of how to use them. Volume 3 pulls everything together and goes into more detail on various aspects.

Agree on the Sklansky and the Harrington comments. The Harrington books are so thorough they are overwhelming just from the sheer amount of information, but also so well written that they aren't hard to read. Just finished the third one 2 days ago. If you liked the first two, the third...

I use fundamentals in my primary trading method, holding stocks for anything from a few days to a month or two. I also do some very basic analysis to make sure the stock is in an uptrend. I'm not sure I could even qualify it as technical analysis since there are no indicators. I've had good...

If you've been around here a while, you've probably read a few of the more successful posters talk about one of the big reasons that traders fail : undercapitalization. It sounds like that is where you are sitting right now. If you try to hit homeruns with large risk, you are doomed to join...

I guess my point is that your list is all minor points compared to actually being able to consistently make money with a particular product. You're singling out trees and I'm talking about the forest. I'm not really trying to be antagonizing here. Hope it doesn't sound like that. Good...