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If you plan to trade beyond 100% margin on a regular basis, you probably ought to consider trading Futures (including Stock Futures), or check out www.greentreetrading.com. The 4:1 daytrading margin is only available for 6 hours and 20 minutes a day. Even if IB could somehow stretch it to 6...

You should be angry that E-signal put its ad between your message and your poll.

I would not do whatever is bringing me down. I would try to find something that could lift me up.

It's seasonal. That's all. Spring pop is running out of steam.

When a thread is started on ET comparing the market to George Foreman, a reversal can't be far away.

You might want to look for something other than options to trade at this point. p.s. I don't like liver, and I will not eat it!

Abraham Lincoln actually rescinded an emancipation proclamation issued by Missouri territory General John Fremont around 1860. With this attitude toward the slaves, it was really irresponsible to emancipate them in 1863, with no real provisions for rehabilitating and integrating them into...

A 25 point move in the NQ can give you 20% profit. And you work day after day trading this and trading that with the target of making 20% a year? :confused:

This thread signals that the short-term peak has been reached. Sell tomorrow (friday). Downhill next week.

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Whatever you're doing, keep doing it

Then ditch ES and try something else

You said any criticism was welcome, but apparently you are not very open to constructive criticism. You could easily and quickly learn some spelling corrections by using the Check Spelling utility which is made conveniently available each time you submit a post. I tried to give you the...

Constructive criticism: hit Check Spelling before hitting Submit Reply.

You may need to accept a 5 minute time-out as part of your system. During those 5 minutes, you can try to examine what went wrong. Certainly that should take at least 5 minutes to do right. Also, if you've gotten out of sync with the market for the moment, chances are that market will still...

Ok. Would it be taking it too literal to say that only 100% of intraday traders go bust?

The Crowd is the weight of momentum once the pendulum passes the center of its swing (180 degree vertical). Once that pendulum reaches half of the radius from the center to the edge of its swing, its weight is moving upward more than sideways, and it is destined to come back down. Or: once...

"Trading means never having to say you're sorry." from Love of Money Story

and most of them don't wash their hands after they use the toilet :(

Way to manipulate, Jesse! :p