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LOL now we have Sabena and Sababa how confusing! Sabena, just ask uncle Greenspan to make the EMinis liquid, that should do the trick!

Don't tell me. That's also the reason you are so humble isn't it?

Sabena, I can see that you have your priorities straight: women first, McDonalds second and trading third. Good luck!

ROFL Send it to sabena's women! HAHAHAHAH :D

After all Sabena, you did run a 3 miler before running the marathon right?

Sabena, If your trading is so steady and repeatable why not "warm up" by taking a 10K account to 100K in the next 3 months? Then you could warm up again and do it again before year end. The size argument wears thin in such a scenario.

When you find youself in a hole, stop digging.

You can keep shoveling it, but you obviously don't know the law of holes.

I don't think Sabena could trade himself out of a baseball card convention but he sure can shovel it.

I'm going to summarize because there is too much to quote verbatim. But the info I am looking at is on p 160-161 of the paperback. He talks about using dozens of systems, diversifying by using multiple strategies and by trading those strategies in multiple timeframes. He uses automated...

What is the most important trading rule? The one you have the most difficulty keeping.

Good point. Lack of liquidity can create situations like these but they are the exception and not the rule. Barring a low liquidity situation I'll take as many of the aforementioned scenarios as I can get.

Archangel summed it up well: the key to effective money management is setting up a number of scenarios where you simply can't lose, and can possibly end up with a very large profit if your market has a large continuing move. Worst case when these scenarios set up is that you have taken a small...

See a couple of former discussions: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4376 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3042 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4668

You aren't Monroe Trout are you? Your post above reminded me of something he said in New Market Wizards

Commisso, Do you approach other aspects of your life in this same manner or is this something that you just apply to trading?

When we start to trade we often learn the wrong lessons from the market. It is only after we lose and reevaluate what we "know" that we are able to gain market wisdom.

Maybe you need to give your fingers a holiday?

Exits are important, and can often make the difference between a profit and a loss. But you can say the same thing about an entry - the entry was favorable so you didn't get stopped out or it was unfavorable so you took a loss (even though the direction was ultimately correct). You get to select...

Try deleting the IB ActiveX control off your form then putting it back on the form. You may have upgraded the TWS to a newer version OCX than the one that was placed on your form initially.