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actually stu, i think thunderbolt's actually right for once. i'd have to say that a big reason the world is as good as it is today (and it is good) is precisely because man has increasingly chosen to shun the crazy world of religion.

i don't think doubling your positions would be the best way to go about increasing your position size.. imagine that, one day you're trading 4 contracts, and the next day, wham, 8. good for you if he have a good day, but, and i'm talking from experience here (stocks, not futures), if you hit...

taxes on your US income, yes. taxes on income from outside US - as resident alien, you would truly be an idiot to declare it, regardless of what the irs says.

Percentage of US children who live in poverty: 20% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000) not disputing this. of course, what's not mentioned is that this figure has been in steady decline during all of the 20th century. 40% in 1950. and before that the percentage of children involved in labor was far...

haha! what a classic! :D let me paraphrase that, "what you're doing now isn't profitable, but i know, increase your size!" man i am literally LOL! bro, with friends like these, who needs enemies, right? here's my .02 of advice: firstly, i'll give you the benefit of the doubt...

man is that one of the great all time myths or what! i know heaps of people (know them well) that went that route and i'm yet to hear ONE describe it in those glowing terms.. (of course, the experience wil only be what YOU make it, but i've found most of my friends routinely bitch about the...

that would be some killer system wouldn't it! i just play them by ear really.. didn't really think we'd sell of ALL day (as dangerous as thinking that is..)... keep tight stops and be prepared to get chopped up is the recipe. if it works, cool. if not, well, that's trading!:)

hey dave, carbon copy of yesterday or what? sell mortimer sell! don't worry about getting faked out man, ride those sucker rallies for all they're worth! (unless your an inept prick like me and only managed a measily 3 points out of it..)

futures4me! :D you make me laugh! :) DF's commissions seem a little high for my tastes. any particular reason why you're leaning towards them? or, seeings as this is your first post here, should the cynical side of my brain be taking over....

oh for sure, today's definitely the bottom..

well, let's not go too far now... trading isn't THAT hard. you don't seriously think that the competition is THAT much more sophisticated do you?? they know "more" than you do? maybe someone with inside info might, but those types constitute such a small percentage of traders we can safely...

not sure whether your post is to agree with me or not dt-waw. but regardless, those statistics confirm the difficulty of keeping up high annual returns (30%+) year after year once you get into account sizes in the millions. that Michael N's is pretty neat! only 6% max drawdown!

sorry, my mistake regarding the number of contracts traded daily. figure's are lower than that.

exit on price. who cares where the 5 minute (or 10 or 30 or whatever) bar is at.

relax def. i love IB and have no intention of leaving. but seriously, i don't know what kind of upgrades you guys are doing, but to use that excuse time after time gets pretty old pretty quick. and these thing can't be done after market hours and on weekends? (who the hell are you people...

Averaging 20-pts per day is not as difficult as you think, but NOT trading one contract. 20-pts per day is about $250k/year, and there definitely are people doing that trading eminis. tom, we already talked about this. we are talking 20pts per contract. i stand by my statement that to...

i watch the market all day, and don't hesitate to take trades during the middle of the day. it's just that my setups occur with less frequency during the lunch period. but it still requires me to be there watching. if i do take a break during the day it's at lunch time.. but i really try...

oh man, "equipment upgrades". that's the oldest one in the book! :) only so many times you can get away with using that line.. IB must have the greatest equipment in the world by now, what with all the upgrades.. :D

i'm not a seasoned trader of these products, but the stats show that dax is more liquid than the ftse, about 150k contracts/day to ftse's 100k (roughly speaking). dax is probably slightly more volatile and has the higher point value 25EUR to 10BP for the ftse. www.liffe.co.uk...

nicely put bundlemaker. what a pity that the people who stand to benefit most from such information are exactly the types to dismiss it as "psychobabble". how the hell did i miss this thread... nlp and hypnosis are both right up my alley. gonna go read through it now.