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  1. J

    Need serious advice

    I would never choose an annuity unless I were becoming an invalid and losing the ability to trade. I have put 10% of my net earnings and profits into CDs since 1984 and, while lacking the performance of my futures trading, they are the largest portion of my portfolio. Future secure. And I...
  2. J

    Reality based coin-tosser method that beats 95% of traders in the world.

    65% is just above half, after slippage and expenses. No thanks, I do better than that without a guru.
  3. J

    Has anybody actually profitted from a 5k deposit prop??

    I started my primary account with $1500. I blew it several times, not due to the amount (some would call it undercapitalized) but because I did not sim long enough. If you are trading futures, it is fully doable to earn a living from $5k. You won't get rich, because you're taking out your...
  4. J

    Obesity is costing US 147B per year

    I am exactly 29 pounds overweight. I always will be. Despite exercise and eating low-fat, no-taste food, it never comes off. So fuck it. Three points of BFI don't bother me. The title of this thread is inaccurate since it is incomplete, and leads one to assume that obesity in any American...
  5. J

    Trading is easy, very easy, damn easy

    Forget 100% annually. Make 100% monthly, net after taxes, instead. I dare you.
  6. J

    If this is trading...then I quit

    Decide one way or the other, but don't leave one fingers tickling the pussy of trading while the rest of your life has moved on. Shit or get off the pot. I mean this with honorable intent. If you allow yourself to pick at trading once-in-a-while or just on the side, you know you will not be at...
  7. J

    Trading Chat Rooms

    Just took their trial. They "forgot" to post a few stopped-out trades... Dishonest reporting! I hear about third-party firms who verify performance of such signal providers, and I am a firm believer that if a firm is successful at their wares, they can afford to pay an independent firm to...
  8. J

    Fed Monetization....Printing Money To Buy Its Own Bonds....

    As long as the Fed loans our own money to us at interest, and controls the process independent of accountability, the dollar will sink. I got out of the dollar years ago. Doesn't mean I am not patriotic. Just means I'm a realist. I don't know one successful trader who retired wealthy as an idealist.
  9. J

    What will happen to Big 3 after "cash for clunker" expires?

    Cash for clunkers didn't help domestic automakers much. That was by design. Hussein has no loyalty to America, this is old news. In this case, domestic economic stimulation was faked in this C4C BS. All it did was trash American cars to buy new foreign cars. More service economy crap. More death...
  10. J

    July 2009 Jobs Report

    Losing $1000 instead of $1100 is not a sign of improvement, it is simply less loss. The problem is not improving, not even levelling out. A so-called "jobless recovery" is a fallacy, a lie. An economy out of recession would be a genuine domestic recovery or replacement of ALL jobs lost...
  11. J

    Reliable data - yahoo vs IB vs others

    Of those sources, IB is the reliable one for data, although they post aggregate data and not real tick data. What is the timestamp for each of those data sources? A closing price could mean lots of things.
  12. J

    Trading Chat Rooms

    It's a subscription, which means the trader makes more money from the chat room than from trading. No thanks.
  13. J

    Trading Chat Rooms

    OK, I see what you mean. They do not post any exits in their record, just a range, so any measurement of their service is based upon personal exit strategy.
  14. J

    Jim Rogers speaks ...

    The govt has learned? Have you forgotten who is in control here? You SHOULD know they will continue more of the same. The second stimulus was not delayed by the failure of the first. Neither will the third stimulus be delayed by the failure of the first two. None of the stimuli were designed to...
  15. J

    Great Depression News Headlines

    Get ready for DOW 2,500.
  16. J

    Cash for clunkers NOT suspended......

    They don't listen to honest taxpayers, only eachother. They say what they must to get the seat, then it's their show.
  17. J

    Cash for clunkers NOT suspended......

    No nation can get out of debt by incurring more debt. Ask anyone with a credit card. Hussein is no more than Bush Part II, despite the social differences.
  18. J

    TickZoom details

    Perhaps some posters assume trading systems should be given away for free because of one or more of the following lies: 1. Elite Trader is free, isn't everything discussed herein also free? 2. The burden of proof is never on the trader to prove a system. 3. America is going socialist, so...
  19. J

    Get The Hell Out Part V

    That was rhetorical, boys.
  20. J

    Trading Chat Rooms

    Explain.
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