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That's why i am thinking of scaling in instead of relying on single fills. The problem of getting fills on bad trades and partial or none on good trades is one problem i definitely will want to avoid. ps. also scaling in should give comfort in that you don't need to be entirely right per...

-5k here. I'll stop posting here again, something else came up.

many thanks for the encouragement! wish you all the best, t4s

I can trade profitably by hand. i said i paid my dues remember? It's time now to do something i really enjoy, isn't that the secret to success anyway? It needs to be a scalping system, cuz i want high frequency, high probability. I am thinking of market making, with limited averaging down...

so i am thinking about some kind of automated marketmaking system, but with discretionary bullish or bearish judgement input. it needs to be a heavily traded instrument of course to get many trades going as that smoothes the equity curve and that is what i like. many small high probability...

it's not what is about trading or not, it's what i feel like or not

i have payed my dues, i am ready to start trading the way *i* feel like. my current project is to develop a strategy with it's only focus: how does trading it makes me feel as comfortable as possible. 1) it has to be automated for the most boring tasks: executing, entering/cancelling...

i hate trading. if i am winning like usual, i could always have made more. trader grinch.

I decided to start posting my blotter from Monday onwards. I have been trading professionally on and off for 4 years, with mixed success. My psychological make-up is hardly appropriate for this business: I have a very low threshold for slipping into revenge-trading mode and I am often too...

You sound like an ideal bagholder. believe me, i lost plenty of $$$ thinking this way.

will stock be worth something if they emerge out of bankrupcy protection: is there any hope?

you are so funny. put it on a p2p network or shutup

i am sure all of you 100k guys were pretty nervous when you first started putting up serious size, not?

what i wonder about is: what are the mechanics that make you a 100k a day trader from a 1k a day trader? i bet it has a lot to do with the firms you guys are trading with not?

best and worst about 25k. i am just a silly piker lol

there are always degrees of badness. if you go hardcore you can't have a steak anymore

i really feel drawn to average down strategies all the time, because of the easy money, but i know it's not a good strategy in almost all cases. reason: ur biggest when you lose. i don't like average up strategies either because it's hard work taking all those tiny losses lol so, yeah...

in moderate to medium amounts it's not as bad as smoking is it?

what about all the excess profits the arabs are making on their scarcer oil? aren't they going to invest it in an economy big enough to take billions, ie US?

i sure hope not