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assume for the sake of argument, you have 4k in your roth 10% would be $400 obviously, that's not a lot. but assume (for the sake of argument) you buy 4 different spec stocks all at $2 a share you could buy 4 spec stocks with 50 shares each at $2 a share. with my broker, that would...

again, i totally disagree dedicate 1/10 of your ROTH to specs, if you want to be conservative, but not having specs in a tax free account is missing out on major opp's imo

hangingman, if they don't work out, then you take your stops again, my speculative portion of my retirement funds is 1/2 my roth IRA and is composed ENTIRELY of profits (iow, it is profits i made off of my original roth investments) my entire ROTH state is only about 1/5 of my total...

hydroblunt, your post was a great example of cognitive dissonance you said bush would provide subsidies. i explained why that was incorrect. the PRESIDENT does not write bills, and set economic policy and then you go off into a tangent about WMD"s and other totally unrelated rubbish...

thx neeeeeet

i disagree with the do not speculate in retirement accounts the point is ASSET ALLOCATION do not speculate with (anywhere near) all your money in retirement speculating with some is incredibly prudent. and the great thing about a roth is that you can make Hyoooooge gains and never pay...

get a clue blunt. bush can't throw any subsidies at anything hint: who makes economic policy? the LEGISLATIVE branch. bush can veto bills. but it is congress that sets spending and that writes bills jeeeeeeeeez

ok, first of all. yes, it is NOT that simple. again, READ UP on scale trading - it is an effective commodities trading technique that has been used for DECADES and is hardly novel i will repeat. scale type trading works on stocks - until it doesn't and since scale trading is a process...

i do use pivots. i should have said... "i use no LAGGING indicators" intraday pivots aren't really "indicators" anyways. they are key reference points.

fwiw, i use no indicators intraday (for index futures) and have found them next to useless (for me) on swing and longer term, i do find them useful but on swing and longterm, i also incorporate fundamentals, which are relatively useless when scalping, obviously

i gotta agree booktrader is fast, stable, and intuitive i don't see any reason to change to TT fwiw, i have also tried ninjatrader, zerolinetrader, brackettrader, etc. i still use booktrader

im not making any predictions about crude, but i am long a significant amount in my IRA. basically, i look at it this way good news is pretty much priced in for crude. also, the (relatively) mild east coast weather has helped too but give us some mideast strife , some unexpected bad...

you don't have to have experience with corn futures, to WATCH the price of corn. extremely expensive corn makes ethanol more expensive. corn has had an EXPLOSIVE bull market recently. it's frigging amazing . it is very expensive. but yes, if oil goes back to $80 a barrel, then alternative...

dood. you never mentioned crude ethanol is an ALTERNATIVE energy ethanol STOCKS (to some extent) are leveraged to the price and utility of ethanol VS. conventional energy if you are trading ethanol stocks and you are not paying attention to corn futures prices and oil prices, you...

****guy2 said "GIVE YOU the value". whitster said "TRACK the value". If we really want to argue about this, they need to use more specific verbs and provide examples. **** totally a nonissue. this is what guy2 said. i quote "I think that all indices track the change in value of an...

i don't use any lagging indicators like CCI, RSI, MACD etc. however i do use audio alerts in case i am looking away from my screen and/or i don't notice something happening. i will set (premarket) audio alerts just prior to a # of key price levels, and other key reference areas (like premium...

"I think that all indices track the change in value of an asset class and not value an asset class. For example, an equity index does not give you the value of the equities it represents." you think wrong. and you are opining on a factual matter you are woefully ignorant on. that's kind...

btw, i am referring to spreads on liquid markets with a one tick bid/ask spread when trading extremely illiquid markets, the above may not apply

spread trading, generally speaking, is on a longer timeframe than intraday. often for many days, or even weeks with that in mind, losing the bid/ask spread is relatively inconsequential when i daytrade futures (which is my income source) i almost always enter and exit on limit orders...

volente, that's utter rubbish during (cash) market hours (and even sometimes afterwards), the dow is CONSISTENTLY a 1 tick spread and it is more profitable for a scalper, ceteris paribus, to have a smaller spread. as well as more efficient for stops as for SGXNK being 5 pts - i know...