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Running a small business is a tremendous amount of work. I see it firsthand as a passive investor. I don’t know much about Dave Ramsey. For day trading, 20% making money does sound too high. But you have to consider where you are in the cycle. In the office I traded from, during the high...

You missed the memo that announced the Monday roll date. It was a welcome change for me since I update my front-month charts over the weekend and trade the entire week of rollover in the same contract.

I would surmise that staring at a chalkboard is unlike staring at a real time chart updating on a screen but then my charts are updating faster than my senses operate. Others may operate on slower charts and the comparison may be valid. In any case, the comparison is tangential to what I stated...

Are you referring to the ticker tape machine? Not sure what point you are making in your reply. My memory is that is the pattern with you when you reply to my posts. Our minds do not connect. Maybe I should have quoted SimpleMeLike.

Staring at the charts in real time can be more entertaining than watching TV. It can be a cool hobby generating cheap thrills. To make money from it, however, you need to figure out what the game is. Most people are screwed permanently after 10,000 hours of screen staring. You can invent or...

SimpleMeLike, it’s always interesting to hear what happened to some of the old posters on this site. Maybe in 15 years I will hear about you as a trading legend selling subscriptions to your chat room. Glad you enjoyed my comment.

I was relaxing. That’s why I logged on, to relax and for amusement. Now I’m back from a workout and relaxing again. I haven’t had many evenings to myself the last month so I’m enjoying it. Don’t think your reply with FT71’s monologue wasn’t appreciated. The unintentional humor wasn’t lost on...

Jesus, you’re a fish. It’s called being organized? Of course it is. Organized as a vendor. I’m not knocking the guy. He has to eat too and support his family. If you want to be a shill, go right ahead.

Ken, you remind me of William Hung.

I remember FuturesTrader71 from 2005 on this site. I remember he posted a much shorter list back then. LOL The reason I remember is we exchanged a few posts about it. He seemed to be a nice guy. I vaguely remember he was into Market Profile, or was it volume profile, or maybe it was one and...

Boston is a fun place to go to school. Riding the T is good enough; no need to own a car. Maybe you get lucky and the younger one goes to an in-state college. If one or both decide on becoming a doctor or a lawyer, the $300,000 per could easily double. An undergraduate degree is like a high...

$60,000/yr/kid x 4 years x 2 kids = $480,000 That sounds about right. Graduate school extra. And you also need to include increased cost of support through age 18-22. Cars, clothes, travel, etc. That’s a lot of pressure to put on your trading. You can always go the Al Brooks path and become...

Flaunting wealth at gatherings lacks class. No one worth knowing is going to be impressed. More like amused. That being said, why would people hate you for answering their question? Not everyone has shit jobs who hate people with wealth. Don’t go to a gathering of losers. Problem solved.

Why not tell them the truth. Strangers who ask you that at social gatherings are usually just striking up a conversation. Nobody cares about your “journey into trading.” LOL If you want to kill the conversation you can always start telling them about your “journey into trading.” They’ll...

Maybe this is what he means by “making a lot of people rich.”

You ain’t kidding. The borrow fee for MSTR got prohibitive in a hurry.

You are a Bible reader, murray t. You strike me as an Old Testament kind of guy. That verse in the KJV was the original Jerry Maguire moment: Shew me the (tribute) money. And they brought unto him a penny. I always enjoy reading the KJV best.

Yes, ET was a much different environment back then. Online trading had just come on the scene and most people didn’t know about futures. The neophyte went on message boards hoping to learn from more experienced people. Now there’s Investopedia and cookie-cutter trading books and everyone here...

It is nice of you to try raising the level of discussion, but you need to recalibrate your expectations of what you can accomplish on this site. You will be more effective working one on one or with a small group locally. I don’t know about the people in your area but in my area no one needs to...

I’m curious what you found offensive about my post. But I have no problem granting your request. I’ll add you to my block list to make it convenient for both of us. Cheers.