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Sure, I'll bite. If I'm any indicator, since I first started noticing mini futures everyone else must be as well. I think there's more interest in these things from the likes of dentists, engineers (like me), etc as a way to get rich. I've been looking at trading breakouts of the 3 minute...

You can daytrade in an IRA. All "daytrade" means is positions are closed on the same day as they're opened and they're not held overnight. I've been doing it at IB with no problem and the IRS doesn't care either. It's margin that's the sticking point, so you can't short stocks or have...

That attachment was saved as an Excel for some reason. If you right click it and save it to disk, then rename it to have the ".doc" extension, it opens right up in MS Word.

Today MGPI and TXCO gave examples of one of those "targets of opportunity" I spoke of yesterday. Way bigger volume than average and big price improvement. They weren't technically in dry-up so I wasn't watching them. Big mistake. I'm going to start watching the final universe every day...

That's also known as Jack's "Too Long" post, in case anyone was wondering.

I finally broke down and paid Jerry Medved for 1 year of QuoteTracker. It's a really nice tool and I've been using it with ads for years now. One thing I'm looking forward to is opening up the streaming/trading API feature. Having the ads disappear was nice too. Every now and then you run...

God I love this place.

With no stops, it's very possible to get a hit rate that high. The problem is how big are the losers compared with the winners? If you're betting 10R (where R is your max risk) to win 1R and you do it 70% of the time, you have to understand you'll give back 10 days of winnings sometimes...

I'm going to go ahead and add 2 new sybmols to my final universe: Symbol: ALY Earnings: 0.976 Yahoo float: 13090000 MSN float: 13419800 Avg volume: 212134 Last quote: 16.60 Symbol: ISE Earnings: 1.135 Yahoo float: 34179000 MSN float: 34328600 Avg volume: 640062 Last quote: 43.28...

Here is the Actual Grail. "Ni! Ni!" <img src=http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_pictures/grail/large/HolyGrail086.jpg>

piss at the gas station? a slurpee at 7-11? where are you living? in your car in a strip mall parking lot?

I've heard it said that that being more intelligent is actually a hinderance.

My own plan is to reach a point where being an employee becomes superfluous. In other words, I'll only quit when I've basically covered my income for like a year from trading. That's not going to be next week but that's OK. I'm patient and I believe I can make it.

I recall when I first started trading this method this past spring, it seemed like I was actually getting too many LBDU signals. It was kind of scary. I guess we're just in the normal summer doldrums. But you're right. I've seen several opportunities pass me by recently and I didn't take...

I've observed the same thing on many instruments from index futures to stocks to forex. Big, sudden moves always correct. Sometimes 100% of the move is corrected.

Today was a boring day, wasn't it? All of my volume alerts came too late in the morning for my taste, so no trades.

Sounds like my exact situation, ExEngineer. Only I'm a current engineer, hoping to be an "ex" engineer. I have a wife, kids, and a full time income that's hard to replace with trading. But I'm gradually moving toward that goal with a combination of day and swing trading.

On the other hand, I'm not interested in being "wait listed" for an MRI for 9 months if I f#cking need one now. Some better-off Canadians cross the border to the US to bypass this sort of thing. Cheap anything comes at a cost somewhere.

LOL I said that? Almost a year ago?

Here's something I found that's pretty useful. I copy/pasted the contents from the link below for convenience (I didn't write it) ------------------------------------------ Futures and Cash Forex Forex is traded in two ways: as currency futures on regulated commodities exchanges, which...