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Day 3 January 20th, 2006 Fills Sold 1 ECH6 1250 Call @32 Sold 1 ECH6 1180 Put @33 Open P/L -$10 Notes: I'm disgusted with my broker's (Dorman) platform and execution speed, it took 4 hours to get a bid price on EC that could be filled and then another 20 minutes to get confirmation...

Thanks for the warning I'll keep it in mind.

Neil, nice to meet you. I'll make you a deal, if I make money I'll help you get beyond b/e. But if I lose money you help me get to b/e, how does that sound? :)

Day 2 January 19th, 2006 Fills Sold 1 USH6 116 Call @26 Sold 1 USH6 113 Put @28 Open P/L -$15

Day 1 January 18th, 2006 Starting balance: $19,031 USD. No trades today.

28, live just outside of Toronto Canada, and I've been trading part-time for about 15 years (started with my dad).

Hello, thank you for taking the time to visit my journal, I look forward to your comments! Purpose The purpose of this journal is simply to share my trades. Trading is a very solitary business so I feel the need to share and discuss it with other's who understand what it's like. This...

riskarb, please explain? Are you saying that having sensible market exposure at $10k and totally unreasonable exposure at $50k had nothing to do with the losses becoming unmanagable? If he had continued to use the conservative money management that he started with at $10k, he still would have...

Can you turn $10k into $15k in 3 months? Yes I know someone (closely) who has done that and more at least 4 times that I can count. But they followed it up immediately with a total blowout each and every time. The difference in psychology was unbelievable. At $10k this person was slow...

Great discussion. Here's another trick I heard about sometime ago. I've never used it so I have no idea if it works or even if it's legal. 1. Trade through a corporation that you set up in a tax haven. 2. Transfer profits to an account at a major international bank in that tax haven country...