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From a 20 year broker friend: They don't cut loss and they trade for too short a move.

Daytrading is one of those things where by the time you can do it you no longer want to do it. Secondly pros pay for BBG/CQG/TT/Leased line for a reason. trying to keep retail chart package/Broker platform/ADSL at peak performance is a nightmare, made worse by the BS/attitudes of some retail...

NB The above is illustrative and is not applicable to all stocks and all markets. What works in microcaps does not always apply in large caps and vice versa and what applies in emergimg markets does not necessarily apply in mature ones and vice versa.

Charts work, but they only work reliably under the same conditions that moving averages and just about anything andeverything else works. If nothing else they can give a clean entry into a trend. I never buy a trend just because it is a trend without that kind of entry. Buying into a steady...

Don't equate lack of success with trading with failure in life. People are wired up for different things. You want an example? Years ago I took a call from a Swiss bank of the type I associate with self made not inherited money. He was very up front. He had a very valuable client who had...

Dramatically skewed risk:reward profiles or you won't survive.

Hyperserver have just come out with a version 3 which takes the neo RT quotes from Yahoo and also downloads historical data DIRECT INTO GLOBALSERVER (!) with ONE CLICK (!). Fabulous. Have versions for most other feeds. About 96 EUR one time. Exactly what was required.

acrary once said "there are lots of edges. Just don't expect to find them in the Open, High, Low Close data." It just seems that there is always some edge other than market understanding in professional trading e.g technology, info or execution advantage. Having the capital to create...

Actually it often is rigged at the micro level. That is what I look for to trade along with. In my local market I know who the manipulators are, which stocks they control and who they deal through. If you don't think there is anyone ever rigging things then I suggest you pay attention a...

Most books on trading seem to have been sponsored by people who make a living running stops.

"Question: If you won a large sum of money, or if your annual income suddenly became your monthly income, how would you feel about it? “That would be AWESOME!” is what most people blurt out initially. I have news for you: As bizarre as this may sound, I guarantee that if your old...

Thanks iagree, but could not get past welcome screen and did not know how to go back to a previous last known good/system restore from DOS repair console. If I had, what you suggested would have worked if userinit.exe is a file saved by last known good/system restore

dcraig - yep that was exactly it. Thanks Bundlemaker. Thanks that would have done it if my DOS skills werent 6 years rusty. Could copy over as userinit.ex_ but could not remember how to decompress to exe. Decided at this point it would be better to swap to the the BU HDD and just update a...

In my local market scan using Metastock, but knowledge of the companies and whether the owner is active in the stock are also important. Running my scans on US OTC markets seems to be throwing up companies that I suspect are bankrupt rather than being stealthily reaccumulated. I suspect as they...

Investing for Appreciation by L.L. Angas. You may consider it outdated though as it was written in 1932. Currently out of print again and available secondhand on Amazon for 77 cents. Considering how low the herd values it and the low percentage of the herd that make money, what finer...

Forsake leverage and make up for this by positioning in stocks that historically go up 3x at least every cycle. Your overall position can be large, but keep individual positions laughably small. This means many positions and they must be in stocks that fit a certain profile. You are making up...

Crocodiles were around with the dinosaurs and they are still around. Small dinosaurs then and Wildebeest now i.e. something, will always have to go down to the river to drink, and if you are cold blooded you can wait it out until they do. My position trading strategy. The market comes to me...

There is a lot to be said for using small unleveraged diversified positions to capture large moves with small downside vs using leverage to make money off smaller moves. Also it is much easier to automate and let the setups come to you when position trading. Dramatically skewed risk:reward...

Just from skimming through the first couple of pages of the second document there seem to be references to trading opposite clients but no reference to providing access to all that interbank liquidity.....................

For reasons I don't understand a known bootable CD is not booting, it is just bypassing it. Suspect this is a separate issue/something I am not dong. Anyone know if there is there any way to go back further into a Last known Good Menu further in the past.. I suspect because everything is...