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pay attention, dude... posted it already http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2835121

basically, these guys that are saying this never happens to them either trade very infrequently, or trade such small amounts (say, less than 50,000$ orders) that the computers don't care about their orders. anyone who trades at least 500 orders per year knows exactly what is happening, and I...

What are you saying? that you don't know yourself? Um, ok... If it was easy to judge others, then it would be easy to predict what they are going to do, and you could make money off of that. Being able to judge what others are going to do, before they do it, is what worked for me, and...

Very true... judging emotional extremes of the investing masses is probably one of the most important skills any trader can have. g

I make it a point not to check stock positions from work computers. Period. Doesn't mean that I don't have a blackberry with a data plan, however :P I definitely tend to change my trading strategies when I am working. I would never hold a volatile position when I cannot devote my full...

...be thankful that there are people like jackflash in the markets... but it sure took alot of them to lose the 400K$ I made this year in the markets... lol g

Dude, didn't you read the first reply? you don't have nearly enough to start daytrading. 10K mininum, and that is really pushing it, imo g

Where is Index Piker? my YTD gains in my Etrade stand at still somewhere between 300% and 400%... I wonder if his leveraged ETF strategy is beating me? :p For some reason my Etrade YTD percent gains graph is screwed up, but YTD gains stand at 445,000$ g

Good post. Just a correction, however. Unlikely that that order really was placed as a market order. More likely was a stop loss order that got turned into a market order when it was triggered... And as a result, there were essentially massive numbers of market orders smashing through the...

...and he doesn't understand the difference between FOREX http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2835610#post2835610 "I asked Oanda (Forex) earlier about this and at least they said the customer could not lose more than what´s in the account." ...and S&P Futures trading...

The point is the S&P futures are leveraged, in that you don't have to put up the full 57,400$ to trade one of those contracts. So if you don't have 57,400$ and yet you are trading a contract, then you are still responsible for the value of that contract. So if, in your case, ES went to 0, and...

So are you telling me that if you have S&P futures contracts overnight and your get a terrorist attack and the S&P opens down 200 points then you wouldn't owe money? Are you also saying that if you are trading S&P futures intraday and you have a move like that on May 6th then the broker...

Oh sweet jeebus... dude, do you know the difference between FOREX and S&P futures trading? g

Late to the party, yes, but I still cannot believe that there are people out there that think that futures trading cannot make you owe more than you originally put into the position... :eek: :eek: :eek: g

I don't know why I don't get any interest income... maybe because I am fully invested 95% of the time... As far as the lows of my account? I know I have blown up 3 times, each with about 10K$ starting as far back as about 2001 or so... Account was worth (combined between Bofa and Etrade...

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Thanks, dude... your gains are awesome too! g

YTD profits for me stand at 445,000$ g p.s. of course, since daytrading is a fools game, I must be lucky.

Nicely done, dude... not to be a wet blanket but your YTD profits are exponential looking because you probably have about the same rate of return, but your capital you have to trade with keeps increasing. g

...in due time... in due time. g p.s. the 290K$ is the etrade statement at the bottom, +160K$ is the Bofa statement on top.