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    I think I figured out why trading can never work for so many people

    Very detailed and experienced setup, and I am sure you execute setups like these daily with great success. However, though this bar-to-bar analysis could bring you decent profits, however, it takes a lot of mental and psychological effort/stress to execute every trade with such a system. On the...
  2. J

    edge?

    Some people could probably made a huge fortune on 1987 Black Monday event. Remembering the 2010 May 6 flash crash, most people might lost money, but a small percentage traders made a huge profits on that day, that is called edge. An edge is an individual skill to read the market and take...
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    holy grail for sale

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    I hate holidays when the market is closed

    You can trade Forex, and there are some good price moves for the USD/JPY or EUR/JPY pairs this morning. In fact, there are more opportunities in Forex than in ES these days, and it is also easier to trade/profit.
  5. J

    Communist China

    Why wouldn't APPLE have their iPad, iPhone made in India, Thailand or Mexico? the labor is cheap as well in those places.
  6. J

    College trys again

    It makes sense though. You focus on one direction so you don't get confusion, and you will spot potential short trades more readily since your radar is always screening on that particular direction. Mostly, short trades are more rewarding than long ones. Falling down is rapid in most cases, for...
  7. J

    TradeStation Is Down Again!

    My TS platform has been working fine all these three mornings.
  8. J

    College trys again

    Your numbers just made the college kid mad. I don't think he would believe/accept them.
  9. J

    Jobs for Index future charting?

    Do you mean the low point in forming in real time, or after the low point has been formed? I saw many systems/indicators that would show the exact low point, but only after a couple bars that passed that low point. There are some other systems that would print a dot at the low point predicted...
  10. J

    2000 thousand dollars

    from $500 to $5000 within a month trading FX. 100% win rate (March of 2012). http://media.dailyfx.com/sales/micro/kom_docs/MAR2012/martradereport1st.pdf
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    Billionaire unloads most of his FB shares

    "Thiel made out well. As one of Facebook’s initial investors, he first invested $500,000 in the company in 2004. He sold 16.8 million shares in the company’s May initial public offering for about $640 million. With last week’s sale, Thiel has now sold most of his stake in the company. "...
  12. J

    TA works

    Do you need to watch those 40 charts or you use screening program like RadarScreen (TS) to generate the signals?
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    TA works

    A advantage of trading stocks is you can have a larger selection of candidates and you can even just pick a certain period of time to trade without following the market for the entire day, because at a given time there is always certain stock breaking out or breaking down if you use trend...
  14. J

    What Does It Take to Feel Wealthy?

    Anything? What about health? You don't imagine Steve Jobs would give up half or all his fortune away for just to live another 20 years or so like most other common people.
  15. J

    Trading on "Instynct" (NQ)

    Factor in the commission fees you paid for the trades, you are actually slightly profitable this week.
  16. J

    Finding the Holy Grail

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230215 He doubled his account in 3 days (He posted every trade).
  17. J

    I finally Quit Daytrading after 5 years

    You know nothing about Bruce Lee.
  18. J

    500K in college loan debt, earning 80K a year!!!!

    Ph. D. students get paid since first year, in a couple institutes where I work recently, it is about $28000 a couple years ago. I know some of students can save up more than 10K a year. So after 5 years it is 50K there. Tuition is free and medical insurance is also provided ( in the area of...
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    Trader Jeffs YM "Scalp" Trade Journal

    Hope you keep on posting your progress. It would be interesting to see how long a journey would take for you to amplify the initial $2000 to 1 million, which I believe you could eventually achieve it if you keep on doing the same way. The time frame would probably be dependent on how you scale...
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    Trader Jeffs YM "Scalp" Trade Journal

    You did it! You doubled your account within 5 days with a minimal capital to start with. Awesome! You are going to extract more money the way you are doing without stress than many people trading the frantic CL.
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