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GG, Thanks for the tip. I should have mentioned: I never learned any instrument, but I play several. Kind of. It always takes me a couple of months to learn a new song. Maybe that's what I should do this weekend. The one problem with this is that once I get into it, I play whenever I...

It depends on which calculator you use. Yours seems to be the one the bank uses to calculate the interest they pay you, while mine was the one the bank uses to calculate the interest you owe them.

This may sound strange, but I wish I had known the difference between a retracement and a new trend. It's not just that I made mistakes classifying individual situations, I just had no grasp on the concept at all.

This is really helping me. It is amazing that ET not only contains some of the finest traders, but it seems that for every question I could possibly be interested in, there is someone here who can teach me something. I wish schools were like this. ShoeshineBoy, the music you suggested does...

When I was explaining about the disadvantages of the two extremes, I was thinking along these lines. However, finding anything inbetween, let alone the optimal balance, is easier said than done. Maybe I should try to look at it from a hedging perspective.

A little help, please. How do I know the right seed?

I have never heard of it, but will obtain a legal copy ASAP. Thanks for the tip.

Maybe someone on here can help me with this. Right now it looks to me like we as sentient beings have an important choice to make: Obedience or emancipation? We are designed to be slaves to our genes and maximize their reproductive success. Obviously we are self-aware because this is...

Not all futures are section 1256 contracts. Does anyone know how to report the ones that aren't, especially when the P/L is not in USD?

I wouldn't quite say hell, it's more like a tachyon burst.

I'm not sure he is too fair, but I agree with the rest of your statement. You can definitely make a lot or lose a lot in GS. JNJ: Every few months I check in to see if he has become just a little more bearable. So far no luck. But it might be that I just don't understand him. I just...

Zinger! That's a good one. I guess I have an advantage over you. I am married to a woman who has forever changed me. Now I know I could be perfectly happy alone.

I was thinking the same thing. Makes you wonder how well we would do if we had to post in, say, Chinese or ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

I have not read too much of this thread, but I have an opinion for ANYONE who says the market can't be beaten, the best way to play the market is buy and hold, daytrading is too risky and doesn't yield anything in the long run, etc. etc.: How are all the people who run around at the exchanges...

It's just a wild guess, but maybe it's just not as simple as "green light means trend, red light means chop". Maybe you should be looking at low versus high activity/liquidity/market participation days. It was to be expected that this last Friday was not going to be the most significant and...

I just love it when the talking robots on popular business TV shows call the EUR/USD the Eurodollar.

I love this view.

Just because I have a feeling that some people here might have a hard time with my above post, let me give you an example: If you buy just above major support, your reason for buying is that you expect a bounce as soon as everyone realizes there is support / large size on that level. As soon...

I agree with the first statement and am not quite sure about the second one. Let me explain the part about cutting losses first: There is a difference between realizing when a trade has to be terminated as a loss and just putting a live stop order out to the exchange. This difference can be...

I was thinking about that, as you are of course correct in your assumption that I was talking about very short term phenomena. You probably have a good point, but we should be careful about exactly how many points per trade a system like yours would average. Let us say, for example, that you...