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It got to me so badly that I quit trading and went back to medical school, which is the other extreme. Now that I am older and married with kids etc I enjoy the solitude but I couldnt do it when I was young (20s).

You guys find everything....

Like similar trend following systems, it will do well in trends and get destroyed in choppy markets.

I have been trading with IB for 3-4 years and this is the first outage for me.

CANSLIM invests in high flyers, small, high growth, high relative strength stocks during bull markets, it works great sometimes, not others. If earnings miss by a penny, they drop 50% in one tick.

I would think the e-mini market could absorb a couple hundred contract order without much trouble.

I agree, I wasted much time on this, now I look at nothing but what I think is important and I am comfortable with and I am doing the best I ever have.

I think it's like anything else you want to be good at, it takes years of practice. Golf, playing an instrument, becoming a doctor, anything.

So taking an acid (lemon juice) which has been neutralized with baking soda will alkalinize your body? I doubt it.

NH does have state income tax on "unearned" income like cap gains, but its still less than 12%. Mass blows.

Great thread.

Great thread, stability of the country would be top concern for me. Dont want all you hard earned money "nationalized" one day.

I think it is strange how people think the fed/government has complete control over everything, prices, housing, temperature. Do you really think Uncle Sam is that smart and effective. Sam's not Superman like we were told as kids. Closer to a stumbling drunk.

Wow, for the last couple weeks.

Been using volume charts for a while, chose 2500 on the ES simply because I liked how it looked, not too fast, not too slow. 2401 looks nearly the same. I doubt there is any magic in odd # charts per se.

Tradestation doesnt do it either.

This website has so many strange people on it.

How I see it is that if you are building 500 share bars and right now you are at 490 and a 50 share trade goes across then the bar wil go up to 540, close, then start the next bar. Hard to get around.

Here we are one month later, no major selloff yet.

But the bid ask can change dramatically without any trades. Rare but happens.