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Found this, compliments of Wikipedia regarding Nobel Prize nomination: In its first stage, several thousand people are asked to nominate candidates. These names are scrutinized and discussed by experts in their specific disciplines until only the winners remain. This slow and thorough...

I'm sick of having to hear these xyber9 commercials on cnbc 20 times daily all this week. Who the H%$#&@ is this Robert Taylor who claims to have been nominated for a nobel prize for "proving" that markets are not random? 1. I'm not saying markets are random. I don't believe they are random...

Dustin, I really appreciate your advice. I've been trading since '05 at a prop firm. It is so easy to get into the trap of shorting the strongest stock on your screen ("it can't go any higher, can it?), or buying the weakest. I've read many of your posts after noticing your results in the...

How about relative strength? either stock vs stock, sector vs sector, or vs market index? I don't have any specific advice on how to approach this, just throwing out a thought for another way to look at trading.

MA's and oscillators are nice tools to help you decide which side of a trade to be on, and narrow down an entry point. They certainly have little to offer in terms of predicting the future. A moving average doesn't have any way to warn you that your previously strong stock is about to report...

Just to add to my thoughts from the last post. Just about every trader loses $$ when they start out. Consider it part of your tuition cost. Its up to you to decide how expensive you want your tuition cost to be (and I'm not talking about your $1000 offer). I am in the camp that says paper...

Just out of curiousity, How long did it take you to go through the $18K you mentioned in a different thread? What types of strategies were you using? What training/research have you received? I have been trading since May 2005 with a prop firm. I think I was down about $3K in trading at the...

I agree with the previous post; two days don't mean anything in trading. Every trader can have several days of unusual success or failure. There will be trading days where you are totally in sinc with the market, others where it seems you can do nothing right. I think each trading...

just curious, how much time does it take to go through your charts each night? I want to develop a swing tradng methodology to complement my day-trading. I have esignal and I find it quite tedious to go through charts manually.

MOC orders have been pretty tough. lately it seems as though it is giving the market a license to steal from you. if you use market orders in general for your exits, I guess it is as good a time as any to do so. If your commissions are on a per share basis, I would say scale out of at least some...

I think the immortal words of Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers might sum up Stocktrad3r's self-imposed hiatus: "I put myself on the line, you shoot it down with your negativity. Your goddamn negativity! I don't need it! I'm an idea man. I thrive on...

The more popular the approach, the more competition you will face when trying to get your share. That means you will need to be earlier to get in, or risk missing the move (or get in late which will probably make you wish you missed the move).

That is awesome! You are my hero Tums. BTW, have anyone tried that device? Does it work well?

Plenty of stocks, especially in the financials, have dropped 10% since C was trading at $51. You have an investment plan that made sense to you, maybe you should stick with it. If, at the time you would make your next scheduled stock purchase (I don't know, is it once a month or just...

I'm interested in building a cheap box that can handle four monitors as a backup/supplement to the current computer I'm using. I don't need anything fancy, not performing a gazillion calculations per second or anything like that. I'm currently using the low end box from Tradingcomputers.com...

uh oh, was that action figure made in China?

I recently moved to Fort Worth and was wondering if any other full-time traders live near me... I'm mulling over the idea of opening an office in the area, but need to know if there is any interest before I spend too much time on this idea. Might not get back to this thread until the...

regarding IB, unless I misunderstood their website, you only get paid interest on total amount of your short position exceeding $100K. Check the examples given on their site. I don't think it matters what the size of your account, if your short position totals $101K, you get paid on a...

GZ, you actually seem shocked and surprised by this move. NYSE has been gradually dismantling these small edges one by one. When I first started a couple of years ago, they published open imbalances along with the indications. Gone. Opening indications? Gone. Closing imbalances? Stay...

when i was going to set up a dual monitor system using a cheap dell computer, someone at dell recommended that i use a model without onboard video. i ended up buying a prebuilt box from tradingcomputers.com. their prices have gone up, and i want to get a second (cheap) trading computer. actually...