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Someone has to manage my money. I do not need to hire someone to lose money for me. I am perfectly capable of losing money by myself.

Beer to brains indicator is still in favor of beer.

So did you tell them about elitetrader.com?

I recall instances during the later stages of a stock bull market when price breakouts do not show much continuation. Sometimes I remember buying at a new record high price and selling at a higher price three days later. In this case the price advance is big, about 25 % in three days (price...

This might have something to do with the price decrease. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/volt-information-sciences-inc-declares/story.aspx?guid=%7B91421004%2D21AF%2D407F%2DB89C%2D3C6FA830907D%7D&newsid=886115735&&dist=bigchartssymb=VOL&sid=5300 Shares of Common Stock will be paid on...

Ahmadinejad (Iran), Chavez (Venezuela) and Ortega (Nicaragua) may be friends. http://iran-daily.com/1385/2758/html/ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on Jan. 13, and by his Nicaraguan...

Wow. If all those indices show large increases at closing then tomorrow could be a big rally day in the USA stock market.

It is a holdiay in the United States and some, likely all the exchanges are closed. We call this holiday "Martin Luther King" day. I expect trading to resume tomorrow, Tuesday 16 January 2007.

G-Boa, how do you protect your savings in South Africa? Do you keep money in banks, hold various currencies, hold gold coins, bury coins in the ground or perhaps you have some other way to secure wealth?

The divergence technique is not 100 % reliable. No indicator that I remember examining is 100 % reliable. Sometimes SPY price decreases for a month or two, then price rallys again. I remember being fooled so many times that I stopped trying to predict future prices. Another technique that...

Earnings reports are published quarterly and the general public gets the report last. Long before the earnings are reported a salesperson notices lots of orders for goods or services. The salesperson informs the manager. Now the manager knows the good news too. The department secretary types...

I might publish it on elitetrader.com. I do not know anyone personally that can use a trading method. I believe most people are incapable of trading profitably or even saving money from a regular paycheck.

I believe trial software is available. You might consider purchasing test software anyway. The cost of test software may be less than the cost of a losing trade. You might read Jack Hershey threads starting here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38777. I find Jack and...

You are not missing anything. You might consider the overall result. Suppose I play a fair coin toss game where I bet 1 $ and flip the coin. If the coin lands tails up then I lose the dollar bet. If the coin lands heads up then I win $ 10. I expect to lose about half the time. Is playing the...

I do not know exactly but a rough estimate is less than 0.15 %. I find slippage cost to be much greater than commission. I am a long term position trader.

I am working on a mechanical trading system that combines volume and price. The system multiplies the change in price times the volume to give a value that I call VdeltaP. VdeltaP values are added to give a cumulative total. I calculate moving average crossovers from cumulative total values. The...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6251167.stm Last Updated: Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:46 GMT US forces storm Iranian consulate US forces have stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized five members of staff. The troops raided the building...

I recall testing moving average crossover systems and finding them sometimes profitable. (I do not find any system that is always profitable and never loses.) The system shows different results with different securities. You might not need a stop loss since the moving average crossover generates...

Sometimes the graph price value decreases below a long term trend line. I might look for divergence between the price curve and the RSI or MACD curves.

I use 1 % risk. If I lose then I bet with 1 % risk. My rules do not change because of a losing trade.