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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    ok understand since you said .. with sugar.. i agree with you.. licking my chops and moving forward.. kazz.. i get out when i feel like i am wrong in my assumption.. If i felt like the amrket was going to sell off.. i continue to sell into rallies.. when I get the feeling that i am totally...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    the 1 thank you for your ideas.. I am getting out my old greek option book and learning just liek LTCM did.. no matter what you can still blow up! I pretty much blew up today in sugar.. but it takes a loss to sometimes put you back on the right track and bring your head back down to earth
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    cuz 1 minute you said.. hey you are ahead of the curve.. then the next you say you are going to blow up.. lol
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    Traders Library, books,papers etc.

    White paper on displaced moving average and it's ability to potentially bring profits after costs http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=889515 someone else add something relative to this
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    Traders Library, books,papers etc.

    White paper on technical analysis of FX markets..linear vs. nonlinear http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=275161
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    lol.. i won't blow up.. .. lol i will spontaneously combust before my account "blows up!" the 1 are you bi-polar.. lol
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    very few of my trades ever go in my favor in the beginning.. i take the heat.. I just lost 800 buck today shorting sugar.. near teh top.. but due to the fact that the sugar contract is too large for me to scale in and out of i will not trade it anymore.. the 1000 dollar drawdown was not a...
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    Traders Library, books,papers etc.

    The Cycles of Speculation by THOMAS Gibson. An old book on speculation. Enjoy...
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    Traders Library, books,papers etc.

    Hi fellow traders. i want to try and start a thread that may be useful to the hundreds or thousands who flock to this site. The following thread is to post actual online book and papers or the links to these books. please only post the title and brief synopsis of what the book/paper is about. If...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    http://books.google.com/books?id=zt4JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=thomas+gibson%2Btrading&source=bl&ots=D57LL6E-sR&sig=3HjWvsoYaKGa08kfHDoKZ6z7HL8&hl=en&ei=g--CSq_ZKNWPtgfq1IHWCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false one of his books for free on google.. for you...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    yup.. you are correct i NEVER employ stops unless using them to enter a trade
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    A list from the a book in 1926 by THOMAS GIBSON The Chapter is titled: Causes of Loss page 13 The principle causes of loss in a security market operations may be summarized as 1. overspeculation 2. greed 3. ignorance and misunderstanding 4. credulity 5. fear 6. stubbornness 7...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    Ak100.. the only way that will happen i if i continue to do the same type of trades over the next 5 years.. adaptation my friend and being a head of the curve will allow me to continue to do this profitably well into the futures and i will pass on this skill to a few who are capable of enduring...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    http://www.amazon.com/Predictors-Maverick-Physicists-Theory-Fortune/dp/0805057560 link to the book on amazon for the lazy ones out there
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    ironfist, i am going to post here again after all because of your comment. i knew he did not think we were the same person.. anyway, sometimes traders just get a feeling and they go with it.. it si true. just like a gambler gets a hunch.. could be a feeling in your stomach or the hair...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    ok .. well since everyone on here has it all figured out. I mean that is all that I can assume baed on the number of views versus teh commnets. If you are shy go aheada nd PM me for any information you require. Other than that then this will be my lat post on here for some time. Good luck to...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    Thanks Piezoe... maybe i should explain teh leverge part out there.. I have a 25K base in this account that I cannot touch. This way i can trade on margin if I want to or need to. The account was actually only started with 8K above that and has grown ever since. I would say position holdings...
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    Mr. coolweb.. how much did you make on percentage terms? let me guess .. 0 out of 0. lol
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    up 70 % in 3 months, 1000 max drawdown

    interesting comments but I sure was hoping for some more sarcasm... once in a lifetime rally? Really? I don't think so.. as far a 10 % risk is cocnernened.. if you trade intraa day o with leverage then 10 % is not much at all.. the key word you missed was risk capital. I was willing to Risk...
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