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That's pretty bizarre

He really helped me too. I would attribute my trading success in large part to Gary. In a nutshell, his book advocates find a trading style that suites your personality. Figure out a way to wrap your mind around letting your winners run, and cut your losses very short. Obviously that's...

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not even arguing there won't be some serious financial problems ahead for the US and global economy, but Schiff is a buffoon. he is, as you said, a laughing stock. He has been calling Gold to the moon forever. He predicted hyper inflation, gold to $5,000/oz several years...

If you followed Peter Schiff's recommendations, you would be homeless right now. Find me a pundit that's been more wrong than Schiff.

Trading is more of a trade/skill/profession, but certainly not a business, IMO. I say that as a business owner. When you don't have customers, employees, etc it's really more of a trade or skill. You can be a successful trader, and have horrible people skills for instance. I would more...

Yes indeed. Thanks

This all falls under the risk you run when you try to market your business on an internet forum. I think there are ample ways to shut up the naysayers, if you provide some recent/updated proof that you can trade profitably. There will always be a few that can never be satisfied, but I bet 85%...

You have to assume anyone not willing to share extensive historical performance, they teach for a living because they cannot trade profitably for a living. Why would it matter if a registered fund manager shared performance metrics?

Maybe, maybe not, but you can trust 007Arb. He's legit

This is perfectly reasonable. I have no clue if bone is the real deal or not. He seems knowledgeable. But you would have to be crazy not to ask for some proof that he's personally profitable before dropping $7.5k. And that proof would, IMO need to show a track record over time, up until...

I agree this is often repeated as gospel, but personally I've not found spread trends to be any more or any less "smooth" than those of outright positions. Realistically there is no free-lunch because you would have to assume that hedge funds, etc would arb out any edge in trendiness. Just...

Don't fight the Fed

No, you will get that amount, minus commissions (which should be pretty minimal) and the spread (again if you're trading liquid leveraged ETF's should be minimal). Decay should be factored into the NAV. The fact is, leverage is great if you're right about the direction and timing of a move. As...

This is not a problem at all with TD, Schwab or Vanguard. Their ETF programs are all slightly different, but he can easily purchase $500/month without incurring any trading costs with these three.

TDameritrade, Schwab and Vanguard all have some sort of free ETF list that would work for your purposes. All are financially strong, IMO. Scottrade, has an enormous list of no-fee/no-load mutual funds. I have accounts at all of the above except Schwab and can any of the other 3, but my...

Damn, it's going to take an extra 3-4 posts before I figure out when bearice adds a new username. It used to be so easy. I would see a thread title and be 90% certain before clicking on the thread. Then the join date and post count would confirm within 1 post.

Without being too political, I'm not sure there are a lot of easy answers to fix the problems we're experiencing in the US. I really think 1940-2000 (roughly) was an unusual economic period for this country and we "were in the right place, at the right time" so to speak. There is likely...

I am fine with working through the unfamiliarity of the new site. That I completely understand. Here are a couple of problems I have however. Keep in mind I haven't read the previous 12 pages, so maybe they have been addressed: -When I go to ET on my iPhone, I can't seem to locate a "new...

Gold bugs love to claim that gold/silver are manipulated because they all think gold should be trading at $5,000/oz and Silver at $60+

This is the wrong forum for mutual fund investing. There are many better forums for long term fund advice. My $0.02 is buy only no-load funds. Scottrade has a massive list for no-transaction fee mutual funds (NFT). That's where I do the bulk of my mutual fund trading.