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Lots of trading activity yesterday. It is as if an army of sellers appeared and the buyers disappeared. I wonder if there is going to be a big gap at the opening today.

C. Chugani, I think it helps to test trading methods using your computer. Learn a programming language and write trading programs. Personally testing trading methods helped me a lot. I find to trade in a meaningful way I must trade with conviction - that sense of knowing what to do. The sense...

I get the impression news is delayed 48 hours. Maybe the Israeli army invaded Lebanon again. We might get the news tomorrow.

Please keep us posted of your findings.

Conditions can get worse at any time. Those values might appear in a few years.

Returns are sometimes big sometimes small and there is nothing I can do about it. What I get is what I get. Jesse Livermore in Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator describes a period of four years about 1911 to 1914 when prices show little change. Prices sometimes do not change much.

Bought somewhere around $ 14 / share. I just sit down shutup and follow the trend.

I wonder what the performance is if you stayed with your original method.

I suspect you can do some of that now. I used to go to futuresource.com and look up a futures chart. I remember putting in say 40 minutes for a time interval and the computer displays a chart with 40 minute bars.

I call adding to a position scaling or pyramiding. I don't do it. I back tested different strategies with my computer and found there is little or no advantage to scaling / pyramiding compared to taking a single position and staying with it. That does not mean there are no scaling / pyramiding...

If prices are random, does that mean that prices have no relationship to the balance of supply and demand?

Your targets are so close to your entry prices that slippage can make your trades far less profitable.

Their final exam is what they do during a long losing streak.

I am not so sure the value of gold is going up. The value of currency - lots of currencies - might be going down. Maybe it just appears that the price (exchange rate of gold to dollars) is increasing.

I do not think I made any money in crude during November or December 2005. Prices are so choppy I just win lose win lose win lose. I hope a trend appears.

How do you measure correlation? I want to write a computer program that analyzes correlations.

I'm not sure how people win stock trading simulation games but about year 2000 I watched some contests. The winners bought huge quantities of penny stocks (maybe 10 cents a share) and if the price went up (say to 15 cents a share) they sold. It is likely not possible to trade such large...

I like short term CD's. I never lost money in CD's. You could take half your money and buy CD's and the other half of the money put in a savings account in a bank. If you need cash fast there would be some available.

I recall December 2004 - on my chart it looks to be the bottom or close to the bottom - I picked up a copy of a financial magazine somebody left in the lounge. I vaguely remember it was Business Week magazine. Warren Buffet's picture was on the cover. The feature story was about how Mr. Buffett...

I don't see it. Does anyone have a fundamental explanation to justify higher bond prices?