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I'm sure you do contribute some good stuff but certainly no where near enough to post as much as you do. Use a little discretion please in the future and stop starting questionable threads.

4 words... Stop posting so much (6 months, 1550 posts = 13+ posts a day!)

Your positions were from May/June b/f the market started climbing (from your chart). Had you been wrong you would have gotten crushed. You just held and held hoping and praying. I dont know how much $$$ you had on the line but you could have easily gotten crushed. My point is, you cant be so...

Can you explain why you think so? All I ever hear from you is cheerleading. And I read your journal from last summer when you held those awful positions against you and got lucky that the market bailed you out. The market will not always treat you this way. It seems you have no concept of risk...

Perhaps you are right. I am certainly open to other suggestions besides alcohol. Perhaps there is another substance out there that would be perfect that I dont even know about yet.

No, you're right. Perhaps I am trying to get my point across too strongly and for really no gain. Good post.

BTW I am 6'3 and 200 lbs so one drink to me will not have the same effect as it will have on someone who is 5'5 150. Its all relative.

You are comparing apples and oranges here. Surgeon in a life saving capacity or trader who profits off the buying and selling of others. Cmon now, use your brain :D And also, who cares about other professions. I am talking about someone who works for themselves (ie an independent trader). I...

What I dont understand is, from some of the responses on this thread, why some of you think we humans are so perfect? I mean, you must feel this way if you are so ademately against substances mixed with trading. I firmly admit I am not perfect and that imperfection is holding me back from...

HoundDog, thanks for sharing. Would it be possible to describe what it is you take (drug cocktail)? Or is that info too private?

Ok, fair enough. Sorry about jumping down your throat :)

I think that there are some here who understand what my experiment means and what its trying to accomplish and there are others here that will not and can not fathom what it is I'm doing. Its fine either way, everyone is entitlted to their opinions. Generally, I equate trading to life in...

Thats a terrible analogy. A pilot has his and OTHERS lives on the line when flying. When I am trading, it is my own ASS if I dont do it right (not married, no kids). Come back when you have an analogy that actually makes sense here.

Look, you can believe what you want my friend. My intention here is not to try and be somebody I am not. The purpose of this all is to figure out ways to allow myself to make more money. You think 200k is a lot of money to pull out of the markets per year? Its a pittance to whats being offered...

Yes, I'm sure a heavy equip operator could do his job just fine w/ one drink in him just like a normal person could drive a car fine with just one drink in him. If this wasnt the case, anything over a 0.00 would be considered against the law to operate a vehicle. But its not, the law allows you...

JJ, You are free to leave this thread. No one has asked you to continue posting here. I personally dont think you pull in the kind of dough that I am so your opinion here isnt that relevant. Really successful traders are always open minded, until they themselves have tested something and...

My trading method is sound. It works well. I just want to make it work better. There are many ways people can approach fixing their problems. I have decided to try an alternative way. Sure, its not popular with the masses....but then again the masses lose money so who really cares what they...

If I start to notice this, I will stop.

JJ, One drink does not inebriate me. It simpy "takes the edge off" and not my trading edge :D. I have tried the experiement one other time so far and made an additional $375 on a trade because I held half my position in a situation I normally would have covered all. Deep down, I "knew"...

Thanks for this post. People are so easy to criticise on this site but I knew it would come when I decided to start this thread so it doesnt bother me. By the way, I do not avg down a losing position. I try and get most of my position in one shot. What I hope to accomplish now is to take...