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A related article: https://www.lbrgroup.com/ and http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=14264 Building a Good Foundation - Lessons from Mister Bill There are common threads among those who are successful in life and have reached a level of excellence in their chosen...

And two liters of coca cola - not pepsi I insist - ? :D It's true it's better to drink water but I don't like the taste of water.

Hey the majority of those who leaves trading are not choosing to do so they are simply kicked off from trading when they can't pay their bills anymore...

Oh I thought It was already the case :D

Perhaps fulltime not means 8h00 for for him but 20H :D . In that case he must have a comprehensive wife. Personally I wouldn't bother if a day lasted a week I am always too busy. It is said that a human can genetically live 130 years, gee it's not even enough for me to experiment all my ideas :D

Having a react mentality is not antinomic with anticipation. A great footballer said for example that what makes him different from other average footballers is his anticipation ability. Anticipation is prepation BEFORE market's opening whereas REACTION phase is during market's session...

>I'm not entirely disagreeing with you here, Harry. So do I with you Biomech :) >Ideally one would understand exactly why their system is >successful. Yes ideally. Ideal can never be reached all the time, but it doesn't mean that you must not try to reach it, not at any price but by...

What about an electric chair: each time you're RIGHT you receive an electric charge ... just to make you love your losses since this is the difficult part :D

Phantom of the pit suggest a Rocking chair :D http://www.futuresmag.com/futuresclassroom/phantom/preparation.html#anchor5548916 POP: Get your office ready! Pick out your office where it is comfortable for you to have quiet time and a proper place to relax. Trading is going to be an...

If you are blind explanations have been posted above. As for being an euro clown I don't need to join I pretend to be an euro-clown, being a clown is as serious as any other stupid profession like trader do you realise that :D ? P.S.: don't try to give the "humble" pretext of the guys who...

A phenomenon I called forcing (see the image extracted from my guide below) happened on Tuesday explaining the pullback we had on the 7938 theorically (in real 7935) the next day: example from the guide ... <IMG SRC="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/harrytrader/dji/011102/seance.gif"> applied...

That's would be logical since they are the majority of operators counting for 95% (in France in US it should be less ) : does it mean that the minority can eat so much of their apple pie :D

Really I prefer 100 times trading to poker, I really don't see any thrill in this game of "aggression, bluffing, semi-bluffing" "Poker demands many skills and strategies. To be successful, you must be able to master all of them and then apply them at the appropriate times. They include proper...

Marketbrowser can almost exactly do that. You can put MSFT and Dow Jones one above the other then copy both data into excel it's only a matter of seconds you then add a difference formula.

I have talked of Robustness. Robustness is the key in Science and Engineering. You are not obliged to "design" a system, you can just build a system by empirism (experience) without "designing" in the sense without thinking before acting. In fact humanity and our brain has always acted before...

You're wrong it is not only a question of academic : it's also a question of knowing if you're trading with a ROBUST system or not. You can have the impression that your system works because of some patterns whereas in fact it was because of a context you didn't see (a context is something...

And why not forbid casino then ? 25K is not a lot of money for you and for me or others and I even said that for daily scale it is not enough. But for others it can be a lot of money and sorry A GOOD TRADER CAN BEGIN EVEN WITH LESS THAN 25K if he chose the right scale and right market. Imagine...

Let's conclude: Asking about stop and trailing stop is almost equivalent to asking how can I made a trading system that works :D

It's not being cynical it's just being realistic :) If you want to be really efficient to change I think you'll have to find some genious ideas I don't know what but it's like David and Goliath. You know I'm for David so I encourage you to do so. Nevertheless if you have to keep your energy for...

Higher fees, higher account, higher margin call, higher speed, higher taxes : prepare for that or you will be washed out like some french floor traders who didn't expect it. If you are swinger you won't feel too much affected but if you are scalper the difference can be huge.