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    Daily Hottie

    No, but I have a vintage Hershey bar sack.
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    Why do people believe day trading will get them rich quick?

    Why do I think I know you?
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    Why do people believe day trading will get them rich quick?

    Would you please quit quoting him? I have him on ignore. It took me eight years to get to that, and I don't want to relapse.
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    Lessons from the Hard Right Edge

    A heart-felt, well thought out post. With many excellent points for the beginner. So I will be gentle. You are no longer a beginner. I think you worry too much about the psychological aspect and not enough about the statistical aspect. A robust semi-stationary system eliminates most...
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    Daily Hottie

    Paper bag cases, those unsophisticated-looking little girls. Not a brain in their heads. Only heads in their brains. THIS is classic beauty (a clue: don't look if the idea of getting a boner over a woman who is now 83 bothers you).
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    Which Cities will go BK in 2011?

    Agreed. No big ones. Or even medium-sized ones. The case of Birmingham in 2009 is the model. Creditors prefer the certainty of a negotiated loss to the uncertainly of a catastrophic belly-up.
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    Why do people believe day trading will get them rich quick?

    To return to the Opie's post, people believe that daytrading will get them rich quick because that is obviously true. Imagine looking at a one-minute chart of the entire day. Scaled to two or three times the average daily range in price and compressed in time so that the entire day fills the...
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    A New Trading Term

    Thank you kindly, ES. And a prosperous New Year to you. I apologize for not being messageable. I am so painfully socially phobic that even the distance of a PM is too close. I have had to learn to type my posts by looking in a mirror so as not to see the fearful Gorgon that is ET.
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    The Fuhrer's first speech could have been about 2010 USA

    EMR, hesh up! You are making us Tessicans look like neo-nasties. Whut am HDS? And never forget that our CHLs allow us to pack as many as we want, no limit. I am thinking of upgrading to three. For escalating situations.
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    Backtesting Metrics

    Six months of data. Profits greater than 2.5X losses. Wins at least one time out of three. Results consistesnt for twelve rolling six month periods. Scalable.
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    BDI is in a serious decline again

    Y'all bein' fum Tejas an' all, I 'luctant to say "bullshit!", but look at the chart here http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm#bdi_sp at the BDI and Snippy 500 and tell me there is a co-relation. Feudin' cuzzins, mebbe. Lak Farrast Gump and' he black sojer buddy...
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    A-lass, today is my second day of sobriety. For how many times, I couldn't begin to reckon. My sobriety calendar is a stopwatch.
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    Can anyone prove love is real?

    Nothing that hurts so much could fail to be real.
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    Best Book For Designing Mechanical Trading Systems

    Perhaps because the estimable Mr. Babcock is deceased. Nobody wants to read trading books by dead men.
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    Fidoucheiary.
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    Stationwary statistics.
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    Dis-cretin-ary.
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    Best Book For Designing Mechanical Trading Systems

    The Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Trading Systems by Bruce Babcock, Jr. Better by far than the Pardo, which is no slouch.
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    Randumb.
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    Subtle words/logics about trading

    Risque.
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