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Oh, I thought you were referring to Agent Orange.

Say you could automate some of the drudgery of your approach. What features would you be looking for to make it easier to add and take off positions and manage stops? Sorry for the obviously loaded question. I'm a software guy and have written my own custom apps for the IB API. I'm...

Read "Conquer the Crash" by Robert Prechter. Lots of ideas on hedging against an economic crisis.

Sorry I was editing my previous post when you replied. Do you add at fixed intervals, or discretionary based on "good" price action? Do you start trailing immediately for each point in your favor, or trail in jumps?

Hi there neet. If you've built a position up with 20-30 contracts, each with its own stop, do you trail them by hand or let the platform trail them for you? Or use some kind of custom automation to do it? I don't trade futures yet but I'm looking at trying this technique on Oanda for...

Or buying...

Yup, the old adage to "diversify your portfolio" is applicable in other areas besides stock portfolios. It's very tempting to painstakingly search for the perfect broker and put all of your money there. But I've met several traders who have accounts at several brokerages and move it around...

Nah. It's too small to reasonably trade with. You'd certainly blow it because it doesn't scale well to proper position sizing. May as well just blow it on a vacation. Paper trade until you have a system that works for you. Then start trading with enough capital that you can set your max...

You need to read Van Tharp's book "Trade your way to financial freedom" Silly title, yes. But the book explores trading system development with a definite emphasis on position sizing. Basically you should be doing the following: 1) Deciding up front what your max risk % is. Typically...

Hi everyone, I'm back after a "hershey hiatus" making money by other methods. My methods were more akin to investing than trading, though my time frame was fairly short-term. Basically I was taking the "best of the best" from the stocktables.com site and buying them. Needless to say the...

Hey I liked that tape-reading video a lot!

If you're referring to Belinda, then I must concur. :cool:

Admittedly it's hard getting used to Linux environments after years of MS immersion. But since MS hates Linux so much it must be good, right?:cool:

My brother in law lied about graduating college and landed a good job at a bank. When they finally got around to actually checking his college transcript and found he never graduated, he was fired instantly. Poof. Crazy part is he was literally like 4 courses from finishing. Fecking loser.

I've been giving serious thought to switching my trading platform to Linux. My favorite trading platforms work under Linux and my API development is portable to Linux. I'm hard-pressed to come up with real reasons to even dual-boot Windows. What apps do I really need Windows for? Maybe...

You beat me to it, Jack. I use Jack's correlation table in addition to using QuoteTracker with IB data. I sort my watchlist according to "vol %" to get unusual volume. At any point during the day I can see if the volume is unusually high for that time of day based on the table Jack posted...

A prick, maybe, but certainly not a f&ck. I'm planning on not being the US when the sh1t inevitably hits the fan with our crappy economy.

If you're an engineer, make sure they know. Lawyers absolutely *hate* engineers. They think and analyze way too much. Lawyers just looooooove housewives, and others who are more swayed by emotional arguments. (I'm currently in a ducked position so-as to avoid the inevitable thrown frying pan.)

China. Barbers giving stock tips. Grandmothers day trading. Borrowing money on credit cards to buy stock. Hockey stick stock trends. Sound familiar? Well it's happening in China right now. Watch out below. Wall Street Journal article