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This is a well known strategy, used to work pretty well in eminis, not so much anymore as eminis do not trend that well as before, still applicable to ZB as I noticed it recently, but almost everything I tried works well on ZB, anyway. I mentioned it here briefly long time ago, that was the...

Except that by doing so, you lose all your leverage. I think 3 times the maint margin is OK, but it depends on what you feel comfortable with. I personally trade stocks with a 30% margin, but futures with 3 times the maint margin.

I don't know if the bigger interest in stock index eminis has anything to do with the way they trade recently. The reason for this is decreased volatility and so decreased daily ranges. ES does not trend as well as it did last year about the same time, but ZB may also stop trending once they...

The region? How about the so-called world, or at least the rest of it, that is, excluding the US? The rest of the world was vehemently opposed to it, not only the region. Even the closest of the US allies. This war is the most moronic war in the US history and there is no way the future...

You are kidding, right? More American soldiers have died already in Iraq during the seven month period since the war started than in Vietnam during the first seven months. That's not a success to me and more casualties are obviously only a matter of time. The US may lose fewer soldiers than it...

A top secret document (!!) obtained by some tabloid? Now, that tells me something about how the issue of security is treated by the US government... and, by the way, if it were not meant to be released it would never be obtained by any tabloid, which obviously means that this is a classic...

The selection process is only one part of the trading business. The money management scheme and the allocation of funds are perhaps even more important. I really don't see from your speadsheet how you allocate your money. I even don't know how well you are doing percentwise as I have no idea...

The distributions of this kind can be very bizzare and not good enough to be treated probablistically. They tend to have fat tails and may not even be normalizable, which in particular means that the standard deviation is infinite and so is your measure of error. People do assume the normal...

I did double check all the numbers before posting this. I have a Ph.D. in mathematics and I am not a dummy when it comes to numbers. BTW, thanks for all your 'valuable' contributions. Just about what I expected from this crowd. Now, you can close the thread...

I did not lose, I closed my trade sooner than it was warranted by my system because I did not like what I saw in my account. One reason I am a winning trader is because I do not trade when I am not in a good mood. There is nothing funny about it, and if you have nothing to say about the issue...

I am talking about the balance...

So it's not so easy to make a mistake. I did notice last night that my PL displayed in TWS was -$90 while it actually should have been +$120 and when I checked out my records, I have found out that indeed something is fishy here. I am definitely missing some money, no matter how to account for it.

I just found out a discrepancy of about $120 to my disadvantage and on top of that I lost $240 because I exited a perfectly good trade once I found out about it. I was too pissed off to monitor the trade to my minimal target that was reached an hour or so after. I suggest that you check...

It's not a myth... 90% of traders cannot do it, and you call it a myth? This should be understood statistically. That does not mean that you cannot beat the market, but that the majority will fail at it. Even the biggest (once) in this business failed. Why? Because trading is a very emotional...

Bullshitters like yourself do not last even as long as most people with a sound approach to markets like myself. Keep bullshitting... err... dreaming. Buzzwords which you obviously even do not understand are no substitute for a profitable strategy. I spent many months working on the optimal...

and not 'gaming theory'... Even poker is hard to tackle realistically using game theory and you want to tackle the financial markets? Keep dreaming...

So what else is new here? None of them has any clue about trading either... Their posts are just a pathetic extension of their trading expertise. That's a common phenomenon. Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know...

Because they are not true traders. There is an inverse correlation between the number of someone' s posts on this board and his trading prowess. It does not take a Ph.D. in anything to spot it. Talk is cheap, ask them about their returns proved by brokerage statements. That's when they stop...

that's a good topic for a chit-chat, just as much as asking where Jack Hershey is.

BS, nothing works 95% of time, if it did everyone would be doing it and so it would stop working faster than it started. Today's example does not prove anything, anyway. Show me that this indeed worked 95% of the time the past 12 months and I may start believing you.