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Regardless of his shortcomings as a market guru who can or can not call the next 5000 points in the major indicies, the guy has incredible insight into socio-economic trends. Whenever I read any of his stuff, I skip all the mumbo jumbo about wave counts and super cycles, but really find some...

Six pages of parents wanting their kids to get into trading with the exception of RS7 who brings up some pertinent issues...Some people look at trading as a way to avoid something else...That would not be a good idea... Jack Sandner, former Chairman of CME, was quoted as saying he would never...

yeah, that has my vote as very annoying as well...

Thats basically how it is done, if done consistently well...But you have to remember that the program trading really dominates nowadays...I hang out in chat rooms with some of the scalpers and just by eyeballing the short term time frames I see the dilemmas...Just look at charts from July after...

IMHO, many, if not all, of the strategies that are popular and that are written about in books, if executed SIMULTANEOUSLY just do not have enough of an edge to make them worthwhile...For instance, this vertical spread you are talking about if done simultaneously limits your upside, (as you...

You summed it up very well at the end...It is very hard to overcome a $5 commission...It is a seemingly innocuous number until you start taking it out of both the winners and the LOSERS...And that is the key...IT is a FIXED cost, so no matter what happens win or lose, they are getting paid...

A good analogy is a competitive sport...Be it golf, tennis, baseball, etc, etc...The individual sports seem the most applicable because there is no one to hide behind...So lets say golf...You go out to your course all alone and tee it up and every day you shoot 72 cause there is no one around...

What color...Black or Beige?

The one guy who I speak to frequently who says he really needs the dual pentium, dual hard drive config. uses a large database to do statistical analysis...For him I guess this is so labor intensive that it would bog down the entire machine while doing this data mining... My impression is...

Right, I understand...I am trying to get some feedback as to which applications, software, databases, etc would be the reason to go to the dual processor workstation...A few people I talk to are pretty adamant about having a workstation over a pc...

yeah, they seem to have very high end components...Can anyone here vouch for their craftsmanship on putting together those high workstations with SCSI drives and RAID configs...

I wanted to start a thread (even though it has been discussed many times in previous threads) about specifically what type of performance enhancement people have seen using workstations as opposed to high end pc's... For instance, how many traders on this site are using Dual Processor, Dual...

oops I misread that...you are short the front month long the deferred month...Good question, you can try to simulate that on the platform...If you right mouse click when you have an order selected it will calculate margin for the position

for margin purposes, you have to have the cash to buy the front month and then the margin to sell the deferred month...So yes, that is treated the same as a naked option position...Obviously once the Sept expiration goes out, you would be naked January in any effect...

Who wants to bet his "boutique" fund had a bad month...

Walked thru the local Sam's Club and the NEC Multisync 1720 Black are selling for $579 (17")....The Samsung 170S (17") are selling for $549...imo, these prices are as good as you can get aside from going thru E-Bay and dealing with the private sellers...No other retailer is close to that price...

Maybe for someone who trades hedge fund size, but there is no way that anyone trading small numbers is going to "lose their edge" by giving away the secrets to scalping the tiny ranges...Their edge is simply partailing out, scaling into and scaling out, etc, etc...

Any comments on the Planar 1904Z...19" LCD's with 500:1 contrast ratio and are VESA compatible...They are selling for under $900 at a bunch of places on-line...

It's really a tough call as each day the LCD's get cheaper, yet the CRT's are ridiculously cheap...Ah, the pleasures of deflation...But seriously its a very tough call as to which way is the best way to go...The one benefit of PC technology nowadays is that you are always guaranteed to find the...