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Why thank you. :)

What securities are you trading? What instruments you using to trade them? What's your strategy & game-plan? There are many, many ways to tip the balance between losses and winners. You may not be able to change the odds, such as the likelihood of something going up or going down, but you...

yeah, if you've really gotten those returns, you don't need a prop firm. Sell a car, motorcycle, knick-knacks from around the house and come up with the $3k to open your own account. With those results, you'll be a billionaire in 10-years or so.

That registry edit disables the intelppm.sys and does solve the symptoms (BSOD). However, it still doesn't solve the actual problem, which was caused by HP using the same Windows image to clone drives for both Intel and AMD-based systems. HP needed to create an AMD-specific image to clone. In...

If you find trading boring, then keep your day job.

Except for some two drops in '08 and one in '06, AAPL's been a strong buy for the past 10-years! You'd be up over 1000% in that time or +75% in the last year alone. Much easier to just hold it rather than trying to squeeze out a measly 10% here and there. There are better stocks to be...

Yeah, best to go with two cards that use the exact same chipset. That way one driver-installation can control them both. Trying to use two different cards and getting two different drivers to co-exist is an exercise in headaches and futility.

I used to try trading from my Blackberry then moved to iPhone for the larger screen. Neither platform had any decent software and neither does the iPad from what I can gather at the moment. However, I do use the iPad for remote-access to my regular trading desktop via VNC. Pretty convenient to...

WinXP+SP3 works perfectly fine with AMD. I'm running it on a quad-quad-core Dell M905 (4 Barcelonas) with 128gb. Not that WinXP can take advantage of all that memory or 16-cores, but it does work. The problem is an order of operations. It's best to do a clean WinXP installation, then SP3...

Yeah, basically Xeons are special versions of the same CPU. They allow dual/quad-CPU configuration on the motherboard for really demanding CPU-intensive tasks. Not really something you need for a trading system. So effectively, there's no difference on a single-CPU computer. On the other...

While I won't discount the actual amount of time it takes to get proficient, there's still a learning curve. I've seen some people quit their day jobs and get profitable at trading in less than 2-3 years while others have kept at it for decades and have never been self-sufficient. As previously...

yeah, the stock's at 26.85 right now. If you short it, you'd make around a 600% return by the time it drops to 5. Much, much more profitable than sitting on cash waiting to buy in... and maybe losing it all as BP goes bankrupt. BTW - how did you arrive at your target of 5? And what other...

For the OP, I go with the basics of investing, playing the strategy that's profitable at any given moment. With the initial breakdown in late April, things weren't looking definite, so I went with a couple of strangles and straddles at 52 in early May. Broke even on those in mid-May when BP...

Yeah, due to driver conflicts, you want to use two cards with the same chipset so that a single driver-installation can manage them both.

I recommend the McMillan On Options book.

It appears options and futures have more regulations and limitations on them than stocks. Here's a couple I've come up with, if anyone has more, please add. Especially helpful if you can cite a specific rule. Thanks. 1. limited life-span of contract 2. can't use options balance for margin...

Correct. Don't forget that memory from the video-card DISPLACES memory that can be used from MB RAM. So if you've got 512mb video-card memory, that memory is mapped into the address-space from 3.5-4.0gb. This memory can ONLY be used by the video-card for video and nothing else. That means the OS...

Why would more people be able to afford it???

Is prechtner privvy to M3 figures? The Fed's printing-press has been running 24/7-365 for years on end. I doubt the market contains more than a small percentage of what's been printed in just the last 10-years alone.

yes, lose smaller amounts...