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No yellow ExclamationPoints in the DeviceManager? You open up the AC-97 device and it says driver installed and operational? Check your volume/mute settings. And make sure the speakers are plugged into the proper socket.

If it's so easy, why do the majority of traders lose and close up shop?

Well... unless you interview every trader/stockholder in the market, you'll never really know "why" it moved in a certain direction... It's like a wooden dresser, I see a pile of firewood and will offer $1/lb. Another guy sees "antique" and offers $10/lb. Which offer do you think will be...

Be careful with the logic here in terms of cause & effect. It is NOT hanging onto it for a long time that causes high-returns, but rather the other way around, it's giving you high-returns first, and that's why you hang onto it. Examples of cause & effect: 1. tall basketball players...

You can also buy OTM puts just under the stock price as cheap insurance. Costs you no more than 5% of your stock position. But if the stock drops, the puts will gain in value and you end up with a very limited loss regardless of how far down the stock drops, maybe 10% max because the put will...

Damn Windows! Reminds of the fiasco back in the '80s with Windows3.1 not being able to address more than 32mb on 486 machine... Of course, MS was very mum on this... But I found some notes on BBS's about it and verified by checking out the Photoshop swap-file. It shrank for a certain standard...

Sometimes I cash out a portion of the profits and use it to buy MORE! :)

Agreed... it's just a common misconception what insider-trading really encompasses and that you can actually go to jail for it.

Sorry I meant in the past month, actually 5-weeks, 4-July -> 9-August. Really 70% from 4-July -> 4-Aug. :) Well, I may be setting myself up for a good beating, but it'll be a learning experience, eh? Yeah, I try to limit my losses as much as possible, but it's been really hard compared to...

That was $1k to $234k... ;) And I can't really live on that, I need to be able to keep up with the big boys! heh, heh... I got out with $170k when the dot.com bubble crashed. Sat on cash for about a year and bought a house in the S.F. Bay area... Unfortunately, it was near the peak of the...

11-jul-06 set up COCOA vertical bear spread It looked like cocoa had peaked and leveled off, so I bet it was gonna drop. I bought some barely ITM and sold some OTM puts: OPEN 11-jul-06: SELL (2) Sep-1650 puts = 440.00+ 11-jul-06: BUY (2) Sep-1750 puts = 1400.00-...

5-Jul-06 - set up diagonal CORN spread My first trade! OPEN 05-jul-06: BUY (2) Sep-245 calls 1575.00- 06-jul-06: SELL (2) Aug-260 calls 675.00+ --------------------------------------------- 900.00- TOTAL CLOSE 18-jul-06: SELL (2) Sep-245 calls 1250.00+ 24-jul-06: EXPR (2) Aug-260...

I'm using this journal partly for bookkeeping and tracking my trades and to get feedback. I've done some gross and stupid errors, would be good to fine-tune how to minimize their impacts for the future. Kinda a fun game, the actual amount I invested is trivial, so I won't miss it. Will be a...

Hi y'all, I've been trading stock-options for quite a while and did pretty well. Here's a link to my stock-options account performance back in the heyday of the dot.coms: DannosPortfolioPerformanc2.pdf Now gonna get my feet wet with futures-options. Here's how I started out a month ago...

Whoops, meant to say, "Unfortunately, most people don't get to this stage..."

Let's say you set up a spread to cover yourself for the short position and you get assigned. How do you cover that? Just close out the long-option by selling it? Or do you have to exercise the long-option to cover the assignment (and eat the difference)?

Not sure what you mean by "if I don't take 50% of profits"? I'm up +74% this month alone, was really aiming for 100%. As others said, hindsight is 20/20. Take meticulous records and fine-tune your system for the future. here's what's worked for me: 1. limiting losses and QUICKLY! I use 5% of...

Yeah, being a stockbroker is just one step above being a slimy used-car salesman. I couldn't ethically stay in that business knowing what we were pushing on the clients. :( She actually got busted on 4 charges of "obstruction of justice", "making false statements" and "conspiracy to make false...

c.chugani, good luck on your aspirations. Many have been down the path you're seeking and there are many successes. Pursue them relentlessly and never, ever give up. All the books listed pretty covers everything you need to "learn" intellectually. Don't get caught up in being "perfect", there...

Most I've ever lost was -$15k in a day. Most I made was about +$48k in a day. Both times it was less than 10% of my portfolio.