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I think he's referring to this: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Soes-Bandit-Battle-Tested-Electronic/dp/0070305773 There's a video on Level II by Mike McMahon at traderslibrary. And it's also talked about in books like Tools and Tactics for the Master Day Trader by Oliver Velez. I'm...

I've heard about TC2000 many times but have not tried it yet. I believe they have a demo. As far as free ones are concerned, I use prophet.net (snapcharts) and I click on annotate at stockcharts.com to view fib ratios. prophet.net allows you to change settings on lots of indicators and...

The way I see risk/reward, if I start doing lots of paper trading before I start trading again, I want to see 60% winning trades with a risk/reward ratio of at least 1.5 to 1. I mean I would make $150 for every $100 loss. Seems to me that you'd come out ahead in the long run with that kind...

Cool, someone posted an Excel version on the trade2win software forum.

HERE ARE THE FORMULAS IN CASE YOU WANT TO CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN. column A row 1: Equities Paper Trading row 2: Ticker symbol column B row 2: Long or short column C row 2: Entry price column D row 2: Exit price column E row 2: N of shares column F row 2: Profit or loss...

OK, I finally completed my spreadsheet and I took the time to verify the calculations by hand so I know this should be the final version that works very well. If you want to use the file with the original program I used to write it, it’s free at...(you click on Calc after installation)...

Here is the other screenshot...

OK IT’S ALMOST ALL DONE!!! :) Of course, I noticed I forgot to add a formula for when I take on a short position. That’s the only issue now and it’s kind of weird because I don’t know how to correct that yet. So, I guess I’d have to temporarily have one spreadsheet for long positions...

m'kay :)

The ability to go long or short any time? If all stocks have been borrowed to short, then you can't short.

From what I heard/read, you get cut off if you get a job "on commission" even if you get no commission whatsoever. That seems very bizarre and cruel. You may want to check yourself (anonymously on the phone). If I start trading on Welfare, I'm just not going to delcare it. I may even trade...

Well, that may sound like a “screwed-up” question but after doing some trading just to get some experience, I decided I would “do the right thing” and choose a strategy, write a trading plan, do some paper trading and so on and so forth. OK, obviously, I noticed something bizarre...

For someone who wrote a book, that seems like a pretty short answer, lol. If this is the real Alan Northcott, I wanted to say I like your book on short term trading. As a matter of fact, I wanted to buy a copy for several of my family members at x-mas. It's a pretty complete introduction on...

I made the mistake of saying I had read books on swing trading so one prop firm never took me too seriously. Then they made me an offer where they would train me and everything but I'd have to give them $2000 as a deposit. And the payout deal and everything was totally changed. However, I...

There was an interview with Paul Tudor Jones in Market Wizards who worked with a floor trader who said that is it a common pit practice to dump positions when a lot of small retail orders are coming in. (I can't remember the exact words but it was sort of like that.) Then the same sort of...

Can you say what kind of method you were using? If you used technical indicators, did you change any of the settings for intraday trading?

Wow, are there any other trading contests out there where you can win money? (I was only looking at Oliver Velez methods but it's worth a try.)

Wow, thank you both for making an effort to be helpful. You mean the open office at http://www.openoffice.org/ ? This is great. I didn't know there was a free software program like that. :)

OK, I did a search on this forum and I also looked at some of the Excel video tutorials on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1OVkw2ZQ8# I find those videos pretty good and everything but I did the following....(look at screenshot) (BTW, those are totally fictitious numbers. I...

I'd suggest a name with the word trading or trade in it. And you'd need a website and offer training. Why'd you want to start a prop firm instead of tradding forex or something like that? Some people start, they can't make money so they quit. There seems to be some effort involved there...