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I'd always heard it as the traveling salesman who hires a hooker and decides to expense it against his meal allowance because he ate it. :)

It's variable - sometimes futures leads equities and ETFs, other times equities lead futures and ETFs, and still other times ETFs lead equities and futures Let's face it - if it was a simple as "oh, the ES always leads the cash" it wouldn't take any skill to make money trading

It's not as simple as "small" vs. "large" stops (except maybe in scalping). If you don't factor in the kind of entry you're taking (e.g., if you're swinging into a reversal at an SR you can probably be fairly tight on the other side of the SR while an entry upon breakout might need to allow for...

Your implied presumption here is that you will be successful enough at trading to make a continuous living at it. You might, you might not. Lots of people go down in flames. Others make some good supplemental cash, but never enough to fully support themselves (or at least the lifestyle they...

That wasn't what I was asking. Perhaps if you just give a clearer example of the three different values that you're using and their derivation it would clear up the whole question. With the brief text you used, it still looks like two of the three are essentially the same thing. Thanks.

Install the Google toolbar and it's popup blocker http://toolbar.google.com Check your registry settings for Intenet Explorer too. You can have the symptoms you describe both without the particular web pages you visit having popups coded in them (wouldn't think there are any popups on ET...

So did he have anything to say?

But what's the difference between your use of ratio of win/loss and % of win/loss? Seems like they're measuring the same thing - just different semantics.

Isn't "percentage win/loss" essentially the same as "ratio win/loss"?? Seems like you only need to know that ($win/$loss)*(#win/#loss) is > 1

How about Indonesian Rupiah or Venezuelan Bolivars Takes more than 2 Bolivars to a Won and more than 7 Rupiah

Check the Ziff-Davis website - they should have several different types of benchmarking tools. An overall throughput test that's close to the kind of load you plan to run will provide you a better measure than simple component tests (e.g., CPU, video, etc.).

It's also funny how so many people talk about how so and so politician was in the military and so his opinion is more important than some other politician who wasn't. How come most of those same people never raised the comparison when Clinton was in office? Besides, NO politician (whether...

OK, two quick thoughts: 1. Isn't this like asking a hijacker if they packed their own bags? What are they going to say? Oh yeah, I'm an HIV positive flamer who also likes to shoot heroin on the weekends!!?? 2. If the donor is DEAD?? Is there a lot of sperm donated by dead people?? Why...

Before responding, let's be clear about what you're thinking of doing? Are you just asking about the practicality of running all of what you currently have running on two computers on one larger machine (what you're calling a "server")? Or are you considering an actual server with one or...

You're confusing the practicality of deploying large capital pools with longer timeframe trading being more profitable. You're also confusing total dollars with return on capital and significant differences in scale. If a hedge fund made $200 million this year on its $200 million invested...

Gordon must have dropped and broke his Magic 8 Ball :)

Can your broker do reliable market on close orders for you rather than you're trying to "eBay" your exit?

Exactly. Unfortunately, there's STILL after all these years a lot of misused terminology. The perception(even among some ETers) seems to still be that "daytrading" means "scalping" - hence the comments about 10 cents here and there. Scalping is by definition going to be daytrading, but...

This kind of crap can definitely get out of hand, but it's perfectly reasonable to expect some degree of approvals being needed. You don't want your neighbor building some fugly monstrosity on his property that ultimately causes your property to devalue and the country/city/village has a...

Another Bush mole hill with delusions of mountainhood. But's got nothing to do with him. It's the same kind of bullshit deal at taxpayer expense done for the Chicago White Sox and Bears and lots of other teams. Checkout other locations - lots of sports teams get cut special deals like...