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Almost every minute of every day I am thinking about or doing something connected to trading. I really dont want to be this obsessed with it but its been going on for two years and I dont see any letup in the future. Thanks for the link and the article. I love the bug light analogy.

The additional risk is that your account is not federally insured. If your position size is commensurate with a stock postion then I think the risk is about equal as far as trading goes.

I just posted a link to his track record on another thread. You can find it on the site. It tells the whole story. I like Allen because he plays it straight. I think you get a realistic picture of what trading is all about. You lose about half the time but you win more than you lose. You have to...

Hope springs eternal. Baron should put symbols on the homepage for journals shot down.

Of the three, Esignal, hands down. You forgot reliability and again Esignal. I liked Qcharts but Esignals datafeed has been much better.

Allen Z. I've always admired the way you let it all hang out. Your method shows very well how you can have lots of losing days but still come out ahead. I think it is a great object lesson in how to exploit a small edge and an illustration that losses are part of the game. Check out his...

"if i purchase stocks and sell them at a lower price IB TAKES THE DIFFERENCE OFF MY ACCOUNT" I sometimes wonder if they dont take the other side of your trades. It seems to me that if I was a broker and I could take the other side of new traders I could make a lot of money. The small...

System trading is a fascinating study and I have no doubt that there are ways to get a small edge and exploit it on a mechanical basis but what bothers me about this guy is in his first thread he claimed to take 20 pts a day out of the NQ and anybody who has traded this market for awhile would...

His trade list is kind of confusing. I believe the actual gain/loss is the difference between consecutive totals. Thus the first trade is 400-430 for a net of -$30 not a gain of $400 followed by a loss of $430. Why they do it that way I have no idea.

Have been trading ES and NQ since the first of the year. The more the number of my trades increased the worse I did. I had to cut way back on the number of trades and widen my stops considerably. Scalping did not work for me but it was probably lack of talent in that mode. I seem to have a...

I have the book but feel the information is skewed because his studies cover about a 5 year period in a bull market and I dont see how these figures would apply to other scenerios. Just my opinion.

I love it. Wont be long and we'll be able to trade the gamut.

Is this the same guy as this thread? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4636 Is it the same system?

I do better than $6. or $7. a month. Sorrry I couldnt resist. Dont use commas in Europe?

. If only it was that easy.

The stock market has certainly changed in that the price of stocks has fallen dramatically. Theres quite a difference between trading SUNW at 70 and at 7.

Gold for the next few years.

Dont confuse them with facts, Def.

I've done both and trading is harder. Poker is much simpler.

The reason I am using IB is that it is the only execution platform I have run across that works ok on a 56k. Other brokers would be smart to offer an execution only platform in addition to their bandwidth hogs.