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"There never was a good war, or a bad peace" - Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps you have your Elite Trader account options set to "hide signatures" and have not seen my signature on my posts. It is more like the flip of a coin than not. True the spinsters will fan the flames of euphoria, and we will have contrasting ups and downs, as we did this morning. {Note...

On April 19, 1775 "The Shot Heard Round The World" was fired on the village green at Lexington, Massachusetts. It was the beginning of the American Revolution. On the night of April 18, Paul Revere and William Dawes and Robert Prescott had ridden from Boston through the countryside toward...

To bet that the market will head up just because we've had a bear market for a couple years is a dangerous bet, especially at this time. It's like betting that your coin flip will come up heads just because you've had 6 tails in a row.

But doesn't the Dow index move because of ES and Nasdaq because of NQ?

I'm down $80 from buying QLGC. I just don't care too much, because I'm up $480 on the NQ I sold this morning.

I was going to suggest fees for shaving your legs, but apparently the S.E.C. has already instituted that one.

That's why we play poker.

Did I mention that my trades often lose me money at first, and I end up having to wait days or weeks for them to go my way? :( There's always tomorrow

Got a reply to my e-mail I sent to www.striker.com on friday. It included these links to other trading systems. The notion of creating a "think-tank" to devise an Edge could certainly include the idea that we could subscribe to as many of the systems vendors that are out there as we want, and...

I just bought one QLGC SSF (May) contract at $39.40. Why? At 9:00 am KLAC was the leader from my 6 stocks. But at 9:30 am QLGC was way up at about +$2.25. I just checked back on them, and QLGC was back down at +$.90. So, my figuring is, something was pushing that stock up at 9:30 am. It's...

I've lost my Page Layout from upgrades a few times before, but never lost the actual pages. In fact, what was odd was my Page Layout was not lost last night, although Toolbar Layout and pages were.

It was pure SOMP tape reading. It just seemed that NQ was starting to tick upward. It was 1:00 pm on friday. I do think the timing within the day (and week) is a factor that an experienced (not me, yet, obviously) trader should be able to take advantage of. 1:00 pm lunch just ending seems an...

There's truly little fear that a method you post on here will be taken up by anyone. Why? For the same reason that the best place to hide a tree is in a forest. If you were to say that, or even something much more modest, a ton of "bickering fools" on here would be all over you like flies to...

You're loyal, if nothing else!

pre-market, KLAC is up $2, a bit ahead of MXIM, QLGC, QCOM, NVLS, XLNX. So I start thinking about selling KLAC at some point today. No set price or time. I'll just watch them all move, and see how it goes. But I've begun by setting my sights on KLAC.

Have you found a new broker now? Are you at a prop firm, or trading from home?

1. Needs to be able to adapt to different conditions 2. Needs not to require secrecy 3. Simpler rather than complexity just a couple thoughts to start off thinking

No problem connecting today. But I had two things happen last night I didn't understand. I upgraded TWS after two months of not being able to. Last night all my pages were gone. I wonder why that happened. One of them was a page I had going for two years. It kind of had sentimental value. :(...

Completed my first E-mini trade today. Bought NQ on March 28, should have sold it of course. Held it for 10 days, sold it this morning +24 points. P&L $480, commissions $4.80 (1% exactly :)) I held it through a couple significantly down days, and overnight for 10 nights. I didn't use charts...