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Do you think randyhorse really makes $10,000 a day? :confused:

The analogy of Elite Trader to Middle Earth seems humorously apt. This little fanciful world is inhabited by a variety of creatures, different personality and mentality types, often in an uneasy but ongoing co-existence. And the ever-present, but elusive and dangerous Ring.

Mechanical systems have an inherent weakness, don't they. Of course, one important aspect of any winning system must be its ability to evolve. Your system, whether mechanical or discretionary, must not be static. Because the market is not static, it is always changing. You do have to be...

DbPhoenix said "it might not be that much of a system", and Maverick suggested a survival-of-the-fittest type view. Not to say that you might not come up with a good working system which would be spoiled by too many others learning of it. But rather to suggest that any such strategy has an...

There's a store called Trader Joe's where I live. I wonder what Joe trades?

Very few people on this forum do share much specific information about their strategies. We've just started a couple new threads in an experiment to see if we can chip through that barrier somewhat. (Organized Systems Sharing) Personally, I don't claim to have anything fantastic, and even if...

# of Trades: 15 month Avg % Return Per Trade Average Hold Time (in days or hours) Per Trade: 2 days Success Rate (% of trades that were successful): 50% Avg Gain (for winning trades): 2% Avg Loss (for losing trades): 1% Started this year's trading two months ago, beginning of February...

Here's another company that offers managed futures accounts. I'm sure their commissions are far less than 50% of your profits. You can definitely find what you're looking for, and you can find it offered by reputable established companies without the risk issues of trusting your account to a...

Contract dates don't really matter enough to bother discussing even. SSF follow the underlying's movement as closely as your shadow follows you. Data is available from www.nqlx.com and www.onechicago.com

This war will drag on. Fasten your seatbelts.

I think the SSF can help you get comfortable more easily. The daytrading rules cramp your ability to think freely. Gives you very little room to change your mind. The low priced ones like AMD and BRCD you can play with, and never risk very much.

You people seem to speak with too much personal authority on this subject. I'm a little bit scared.

Days or weeks can be a good way of trading and avoiding the daytrader rules. You can daytrade with a small account if you want, with Single Stock Futures. There's about 100 stocks that have Single Stock Futures, and it's a pretty good basic list for anyone starting out, even if they don't...

If we want to break down the proprietary secrecy barrier, we need to do what they did with the stone soup: do it all right out in the open, in front of everyone's eyes. Openly construct the system for all to see. By doing that, people will be bound to come in with their own contribution; even if...

Each trade will be profitable in a different category of timeframe, depending on circumstances and character of the thing traded. Profits on the day of a company earnings conference call, will be in a matter of minutes or hours. Profits on a penny stock will be in a matter of months or weeks.

This rule is intended to be non-discriminatory. It applies equally to men as to women. However, each person will find it to be more or less of an inconvenience depending upon their own situation. Women with facial hair should have less of a problem, as their shaving needs are usually far less...

When I saw Hihi in the title I thought this was directed at me. Come on, get your kicks, on Route 666.

Can we come up with something where the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. That's the plan in a nutshell. If that's a realistic prospect, then we have the possibility of encouraging others to contribute, when everyone realizes it's to their own advantage to join together...

The S.E.C., claiming that people shaving in the dark hours are more likely to get nicks and cuts, has created a new rule requiring all traders to shave during daylight hours only. In order to facilitate implemention of this rule, they have proposed that for the next six months we should all set...

In the Stone Soup story, everyone brought whatever they had to throw in the kettle. It didn't have to be anything fancy. Mostly what people brought to the kettle was so humble that the people bringing it would come with their eyes lowered, apologizing that they couldn't bring anything more...