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Anytime you add on a position based upon lowering your avg price, halving the distance to even etc -- in other words an entry based upon your position/account rather than timing of the market itself -- is likely a mistake. The mindset of "the lower it goes, the better the buy" aka "value trade"...

Yeah Citizen Ruth was good, Alexander Payne doesn't dissapoint too often (About Schmidt was forgettable).

I have a couple "FML" fluorescent lamps nearby but they are never on.

I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200. The monitor I'm using on analog seems barely less sharp than the digital, overall I've been pretty happy with the picture quality in general. I wonder how this projected shadow happens, they also "overlap" or stack like regular windows. I think it's...

Hey thanks vikana, that worked pretty well, I can't get rid of it completely but it's much improved now. Much appreciated!

I'd think you wouldn't need too much time to figure out when the entry is going to fail, maybe just a few bars, good opportunities never last very long. Keep in mind that you are trading alot of crosses with this thing; I would assume that crosses that move via liquidity would tend to act...

I think walterjennings expressed it already, if your system has an edge on "timing" then you should allow it to fully dictate entries with some kind of cutoff on losing positions, as over time and thousands of trades your edge should win out. You seem to be placing more emphasis on...

Doh, I just figured out what's going on. What I'm getting is a kind of "shadow" projected from the charts on my right monitor onto the left that move if I adjust them. Weird, because there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the placement of the shadows. Anyone else get this? I am using 2...

These kinds of things only work out if you trade small enough, but you must wonder about something that will tend to have you trading biggest and with greatest leverage against the strongest of moves. An open loss is usually the worst reason to add to a position. You really need to do this...

That's the catch, to have a good handle NFP's you need to be around for what happened beforehand. I wonder if there really are traders who watch the markets daily and are capable of sitting on their hands the vast majority of the time. It's hard enough trying to limit your actions during each...

I have faint chart "ghosts" that I can see no matter what is in front, they are very light but looks like somehow got burned in. It seems they do go away after a while but this effect keeps recurring -- anything to do to prevent this?

I saw Inland Empire this past weekend, the funny thing was that during the first reel the voice track was all garbled and funky, but since there were subtitles in the beginning most people in the audience thought it was intentional. It wasn't until the subtitles went away and some guy...

The actress who played Gogo in Kill Bill is in that, I think that's how the movie got in my dvd player.

The point I was trying to make was, say if some critic praised waterworld as a satirical critique of global warming, it's totally besides the point, which is that it sucked. I might be wrong, but I think the words Kevin, Costner, artistic, and existential are banned from sharing the same...

I think that's upside-down. Setup determines risk/stop determines position size as function of account value. Dollar amount "goal" is incidental and less than useless.

Nothing is harder in this game than learning without losing. Somehow the lessons never hit home until they hit your account balance first. This particular lesson is especially expensive in more ways than one.

Stop entering positions when everyone and their grandmothers are also entering. Also, try selling the next time you feel like buying and see what happens instead.

I think Laura Dern deserves a best actress nod for Inland Empire, by far her best work w/ Lynch.

Sure, in theory, a trade at X # of contracts will work just as well at 10X in most markets. But when it comes to one's own individual account (as opposed to opm), preservation must be your ultimate priority. When you trade in a market where the typical leverage allowed, if fully utilized...

It was just the nearest equivalent off the top of my mind for a blanket claim based on "statistics" which barely holds any logic in the real world, let alone corresponds with how actual traders think or manage their trades. If you are seriously (???) going to use any study that defines a...