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I've heard of it. It was run--at least it was ten years ago, when I was exposed to it--by Bill Bonner, who edits and puts out a variety of newsletters that appeal to those who are perpetually bearish. I took on a trial subscription to one of these letters--Strategic Investment, written by...

I noticed that you did not post any stop levels when you first mentioned your short. What would you have done if AMZN kept going up? Remember, it bounced up to around $28, which was over your initial entry, before heading back down. As for me, I shorted after the rally failed. My stop is a...

I bet that it's Steve46 with a new alias.

I started in December 1995 as a poor graduate student with 100 shares of BBY bought at 16 1/4 and a total account of less than 3K. The account was set up at Scottsdale Securities, now known as Scottrade, and commissions were $20 at the minimum. That account, the smaller of the two I have, is...

For those who don't know, Markersurfer is one of VN's most persistent acolytes. He is quite a multi-tasker, too, defending the man in TWO separate threads. :-) On another note, I was very impressed to read that VN actually made financial restitution to those hurt by his late 90's collapse...

Steve You are the one stalking me from thread to thread, and you are suggesting that I need a mental health practitioner? Black pot, meet black kettle. This is a thread on VN. not me. If you want to stalk me, fine, stalk me, but do so via PM, NOT here. Do allow the rest of those here...

You must have misunderstood (go back and read carefully, next time). I do not need anyone to teach me how to trade. Or for that matter how to respect risk. All I asked is whether anyone had any evidence about LBR's apparent trading ability. No one has presented any such evidence other than...

riskarb, Good to see you back. The ET community is much more interesting with you in it.

The best time to increase the risk is when the potential and probable reward is greatest in proportion to the risk. Past performance, over months or years, is irrelevant. Outstanding performance in the past ALLOWS one to increase the risk by the mere fact that one has more capital to do so...

I am not surprised at all. Volatility breakout systems, at least acc to my testing, do much better in high volatility and after a day or two of tight congestion. Have you considered/tried an ADX filter to the system(s)? Has your research on volatility breakouts included any further work...

That depends. If one is a long-term holder in a high number of equities (at least 10-20) and does not mind experiencing a 10% or more drawdown from time to time, then YES. Over the LONG HAUL stocks (not individually, but collectively) have outperformed everything. But INDIVIDUAL stocks can...

I'm just curious--at what point would you sell a stock, and at what point would you buy it? You DO have a philosophy, do you? Or is it simply buy and never sell, because the market always comes back? If it is the second one, I can guarantee that you will eventually lose a great deal of...

Anyone who has been around in this game long enough is far too humble to talk like stocktrader. Being right is clearly more important to him than making money. In the end, he will likely be unable to achieve either.

Four years--that's really nothing. Go back a few more years. Talk to the "traders" who bought JDSU, The Globe.com, Microstrategy and held, since "the market always comes back." Of course stocks go up, and they go down. They are due for a nice bounce up. But anyone who has been around...

At 10:25 EST NQ futures were up one point, not one percent. If you do not get out because of a single day, then you must be out, since the Nasdaq has had MANY down days since it began its near 20% decline.

I do not know enough about LBR to know for sure if she is one of those gurus who can still trade. For sure she knew how to in the 1980's, but New Market Wizards was written 15 years ago. I have read her book STREET SMARTS and thought it was an OK book. A good book for new traders, but there...

My two cents: buying support works best on days in which the market' crosses the open at least an additional one or two times (like yesterday). If the market's open looks like it is going to be near the high or low of the day (and at this point it looks like the high), then that portends a...

"Losing" traders do not have to sell their advice to newbies. Many "losing" traders do. And do you know why? Because they can't trade themselves. I am not saying that LBR is one of these (who knows--maybe she is one of those traders who has lost her touch). But this industry is filled...

And the other 99.9% of ET said "AMEN"! Thanks for making a REAL contribution to ET--by logging off. :-)

Of course I am worth any more of your time. That is why you are reading this, and practicaly live here on this board. Clearly you do not give a shit, and that is the problem: you have some allegiance to this woman (are you Mr. Linda Raschke, perhaps?), and yet have no evidence upon which to...