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There was a thread in the economic section on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, relativity etc that just disappeared. Any reason for this?

This was the best advice by far given to you that I've read amongst those who posted recently here. Perhaps there is a reason why it is the only one you did not reply to directly.

I've tried to "mentor" a couple people over the years but it just never worked out. Granted neither were full time nor completely committed to a life of the markets, but now looking back it makes complete sense to me that such an attempt would be destined to fail (at least on my part). I'm a...

So basically 2 modems are required for a complete split of connection? Or can one modem handle 2 separate ip's on its own?

Thanks for your replies, saved me alot of headache.

How would you go about splitting bandwidth between two computers? Is it possible to separate activity between the 2 completely so that say if one computer is torrenting it would not affect the other at all? Or does this require a second ip address for a complete split? Pretty much a noob at...

Anyone trading futures in a roth IRA? Leverage + tax-free gains, what's the catch? I trade stocks from a prop account but have a regular IRA that I just consider my side account that I've been trading futures with. So if you wouldn't need to make any withdrawals for living expenses etc...

Do you really think they would let this undo a year's worth of inflating everything relative to our collective debt? Just another excuse to keep the spigot wide open.

Does anyone really concern themselves about such nonsense (%return per day)? If you are trading your own capital, even if you are trading ultraliquid instruments like ES, you will eventually focus on monthly returns as income, as others have mentioned, because really no one else gives a...

And I'm not talking photoshop. The lesson here: don't take screenshots so seriously. Since I often take overnight positions in news-event stocks, I've always known that it would be quite easy for me to consistently show daily eod gains that are actually just markups from the night before, or...

A good streak that ended yesterday.

Was only a matter of time before scalping went the way of automata. The trades to put on now are the kind you can leave on, no stops, catch lunch and a movie and be back to exit at the close.

Trading 20K shares and 10 x 2K share positions are 2 completely different animals, that was my point. Making it a routine of taking 20K shares of very volatile stocks and ending up 1 or 2 pts on the trade (especially on an avg down) makes any concept of edge suspect. On the other hand if you...

Positive expectancy is difficult if not impossible to quantify in the present/future tense. The more you understand what edge if any you have, the more likely you can adjust as the market shifts; otherwise, virtually all "non-structural" edges disappear over time. A simple example of an...

Thanks Neke for replying directly to my posts. If you read again what you quoted, I never said 6-figures daily. But if you are putting on say 20K shares of GRMN on earnings day, you are most certainly going for a 5-figure trade (as I recall GRMN had about a 7 or 8 pt range that day...

You need to loosen yourself up, and basically sacrifice the mentality you had when making 3 figures a day in order to get to 4, 5 etc. Much like moving up limits in poker. Sometimes you just know you're ready but nothing really comes together until you finally take the plunge and let your old...

This is like saying in poker, "How can I win if I don't know exactly what the opponents are holding?". Most times, you will never "know" the "facts" of a situation until all the dust has settled, and the p/l's of all those involved have already been determined. But that doesn't prevent you...

I've read nothing here so far that resembles anything close to what I would consider "price action".

Sorry to post again (this will be the last topic of the thread I will butt my head into, promise), but I don't see how using high leverage to produce gains reinforces the idea that one has an edge. A negative edge can temporarily show extraordinary performance with extreme leverage; in fact...

I just said you got a hard-on from the numbers -- wasn't a far off assumption was it? Anyways, this thread isn't about you so let's stop cluttering it with junk, if neke feels what he is reading is complete bs then he'll come out and say so. If he's just taking a swing and not exactly...