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Is that a clue? I've hit some pretty bad lows in the market. I pretty much get my ass handed to me every couple of years when I go back and try again. I've been trying on and off since 1992 or so. Studied books, backtested strategies, researched novel new strategies of my own, etc...

Send me the rules and I promise to follow them to the letter... :)

Do you use close stops carefully placed or stops well outside the likely noise? Just curious.

Hi Everyone. Do dividends drive the stock price, all else being equal? For example, say that XYZ stock is at $10.00, and pays a dividend of 50 cents or 5%. People own XYZ and are happy with the dividend. Some more people buy and the price goes up, which drives the yield down a bit...

It's very possible that biotech will have a massive boom over the next decade or two. Also there is a lot of progress being made in robotics, though I'm not visionary enough to see how that would play out.

I can't really come up with a good counter argument for this article. But it feels to me like the many pieces I have seen over the years that attempt to explain unusual economic circumstances by saying "this time it's different" and "here's why". I just don't buy the argument that the...

I was going to reply but it turned into a long rant so I made a new thread. This is why I think it's over for apple: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195531

Personally I think the iPad is going to be a flop. Apple has been getting more and more detached from the reality of what people want and need. In my mind, Jobs' recent decisions are showing some pretty bad judgement. I think they are rooted in ego more then they are in logic. The...

Shark, I know you're being facetious but you did actually draw the trend line wrong. Up trend lines connect lows, not highs, and don't pass through any prices in between. Although I sometimes fudge that last condition a little bit if the resulting line better reflects the overall slope of...

not working for me...

Some did start phasing in the new rules early, as of course there were a lot of programming and system changes that were needed. The requirement to charge different interest rates on different parts of the balance caused a lot of trouble, I'm sure. But they made sure to double the interest...

NoDoji, thanks for bringing that up. I saw it in a book a while back (kleinman I think) and have been meaning to investigate it. My impression was that it takes a lot of subjective judgment about market conditions to do well with that technique.

Well I like the new rules, but congress shouldn't have given the banks time to adjust to them. The banks decided to proactively screw us to the wall in advance of the restrictions going into place. Even my credit union is bending me over. Personally, I would have been much better off if...

Pitched it to restaurants as a cheap way to refill their A1 bottles.

Neat, thank you for sharing.

My take on this is that Dell, etc. all do extensive stability testing with the combinations of components that they sell. I am a programmer and hardware designer and I think that the days of building your own computers are over if reliability is your top concern. The reason I say this is...

I tried this once at a full time job many years ago. I found that there was no way that I could concentrate on the market and get my work done at the same time. But I am pretty poor at multitasking, so others might have better luck.

Mr Black, thanks for posting that. I've been meaning to plot your trades that posted on a chart, and review them for clues. But I haven't gotten to it yet. Will look at that this weekend. Thanks again.

First of all, I'm currently struggling so don't take anything I say as gospel. But I'd thought I jump in anyway. I'm glad that worked out for you. Every single time I try some thing like that I end up with a massive loss for the day. What was your max loss for the day while you were doing...