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The intermediate strategic reason we invaded Iraq was to demonstrate our abilities to percieved challengers In a nutshell - we had to squash something bigger than Afghanistan so everyone would know we were serious about this Iraq was the obvious choice

I think its like 'ass to leather' time when learning to fly an airplane just gotta sit and look at the charts every day

As near as I can figure we have been financing things with our huge debt that we can no longer afford to pay for --- for at least the last 40 years

The school of hard Knocks has always taught this lesson very well

who trades 1 YM contract at 11:30PM on a Thursday night

When my mom was my daughters age --- in 1931 her family was killing chickens in the back yard to eat and they were better off than many around them count how many times you went out to dinner last month and that should give you an indication of where we are

purely random numbers do not create discernable anything the graph looks like noise

errrr... household income > $350K per year

2 things that really don't cause me to lose much sleep at night average joes that took out a loan to buy a house they couldn't afford rich fuckers in connecticut who bought hedge funds packed with securitized loans from average joes who bought houses they couldnt afford for the...

If you have a household income < 350K per year ---- Hillary and Barack have a bullsey on your wallet were it not for that reason I would probably vote for Barack - (always prefer the idealist over the seasoned political operator) but considering >60 cents on every dollar I make goes to...

The main battle I'm fighting at the moment is using my profits from my successful trades to 'experiment' and coming up net 0 or net loss on the day I've come to the conclusion its better to book the small profits every day and paper trade the experiments

I agree - and the dog in the clouds we sometimes see occurs when a perfectly good setup gets stopped out by 1 point - then the market moves where we expected it to go makes ya think somebody out there is consipiring against you but if you track the trades diligently ---- the odds of...

if you set stop losses at 100 bucks on every trade you have 10 trades to get it right smaller stop losses and the odds against making money go up in my opinion

-$285 yesterday on 2 trades +/- $0 today on 2 trades

Hey look at it this way I could have posted that the bottom is in and I'm taking 5k to 250k by the end of the year........

This indicator could possibly be correct almost half the time :cool:

Last time they saved the economy they set it up for a host of carpet baggers and charlatains and profiteers and promoters to pitch financial instruments that are now worth pennies on the dollar so here we go again the beat goes on

Judging from posts on ET --- it appears that IB is out of service more than any its peers I avoided them for that reason alone TOS is for us novice-types ---- but I have not seen it go down during the trading day since I have been using it (about 3 months)

DTN seems good I just signed on its cheap will let you know if it turns out to be useful

Well... I didn't trade much last week I had to be in LA for my day job all week So I figured I would get to LA --- get up at 6AM every day --- make a couple of trades at 6:30 AM then get on with my day job -- meetings bullshit sessions - blah blah blah I read 'Liars Poker' on the...