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Crabel's book - Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Open Range Breakout I'm led to believe there may be an electronic version of this book floating around the web. If anyone has a copy could they please PM me. Thanks Runningbear

Ken DTU, How long have you known anthony Robbins? Runningbear

comstock Interactivedata now own Esignal and i was told a while back by a rep that Esignal would be using the Comstock Eurex feed as their new feed. This is a direct exchange feed and they were hopng it would elevate many of the speed problems they were experiencing with their previous eurex...

SProbability, Trust me, most people that have gone broke have done so risking 5% per trade. Runningbear

As a general rule, your trading systems should be able to survive about 8 consecutive losses, or 8 accumulated losses. Given that most traders work to a maximum drawdown of 25% on equity, 3% to 3.2% is about the max you can risk on a trade. Remember if you lose 25% you have to make back...

Any more than about 3.2% risk per trade and the you're heading for a wipe out. The 2% rule isn't just a figure pulled out of thin air. It's a time proven figure to give you maximum chance of survival. Any more and you're really showing disrigard for the laws of probability Runningbear

Does anyone know if Esignal's Eurex datafeed is up to speed yet? THey said all the problems would be soughted by mid year. Is anyone running it side by side with IB for a speed comparision? THanks in advance Runningbear

Electric savant, I think you should add an extra tick of profit for each tier. This means the return increases at the higher tier to make up for the longer period spent losing. So for the 8th tier your accumulated total should be closer to 20 points, giving your back five or so points...

ElectricSavant, Your right the third stop point is not required, it merly exists to protect you against a catastophic event, like a 200 point move against you. Runningbear

I dare say if they were paying that kind of money then he is probably making the firm about the same amount, which makes him worth every cent. Runningbear

The Russians have previously admitted that as many as 25 SNDs (Small Nuclear divices) disappeared from their arsenal after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This has been public knowlegde for some time. Runningbear

Electric savant, I've been thinking about something similar to this for a while. I think if you went with a 1 point target, and 3 point stop, you'd win about 67% of your first trades. If your stopped out, you reverse your position with a 5 point target and a 15 point stop. If your...

For anyone who's interested, the long awaited release of Wealth Lab 3 has finally happened. Check it out: http://www.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/getpage?page=WLD3.htm Runningbear

Nomoreoptions, What is it with you and IB? All you do is slag them. I can't believe your waste your life going on and on about it. The reality is that 98% of their customers are happy with them and all your whining's not going to change that fact. Let it go. Start to grow. Runningbear

I Macro thread is a great idea. I rarely hold longer than a day, however I have a general interest in underlying conditions and I love reading interesting theorys about the dynamics of markets over the longer term. I think understanding the marco environment is essential to every trader. It...

Spain is very safe to travel around. It can get a bit dodgey around some of the tourist areas in Barcelona, but apart from that, it's very safe. The only problem with Barcelonia in Summer is that it's full of American Tourists who think they can speak great spanish becuase they took a...

The short answer is: Make sure you have enough margin so it doesn't happen. Runningbear

My advice to you is this. Take your initial capital and put it some where you can't access it. You've got 50k to play with through collage, and it you lose it well at least your not down. If you want to be able get out intra day it may be worth signing up with a full service broker who can...

There's is a review at www.dansdata.com that says the Geil RAM is a bit overpriced, compaired to corsair. (performance wise) Runningbear

Actually if you want a gig of memory you'd be better to install a matched pair of 512mg sticks. Runningbear