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Crosses make me crosseyed, I don't trade that fancy :)

What happens if you short a company for an earnings report, based upon a "recommendation" by a fellow ET poster? Say you've never traded the stock before, but since a certain person here has a pretty impressive record, you just short it based on his call, and it tanks big. Does this still...

By this reasoning, if you get stopped out -10 ticks in less than 2 minutes, you're supposed to sell it again? How do you work a system where your exits match your entry signals exactly?

Something can only be useful to you if you believe in its worth, that is, if you have faith in that thing as being an impetus for future market movement, and that the players behind the impetus are "reliable", to an extent. For example, I believe chart patterns, s/r levels, pivots etc do have...

I was referring to globex traded currency futures -- plenty of liquidity for any individual trader. Your stops will still hit slippage big time around news events though, I wouldn't put too much faith in that strategy.

Does all this talk about memory handling have anything to do with tws quotes lagging after a time? Whenever tws is open for 3-4 hours, the quotes start to get clogged, and I need to shutdown and re-open. How do I start to look into this problem?

Retail shops will only give you a fill when you don't want it. Don't fall for that "trillion dollar" liquidity bullshit -- retail fx doesn't have access to it, and by comparison there are tons of markets out there accessible by the retail trader that are far more liquid than fx. If you...

I wouldn't be surprised if the failure rate is even higher, if you are just talking about the retail crowd. I think figuring out short-term fx movement ranks as difficult as any stock index or treasury market, with much greater volatility and available leverage to take down your account faster...

It's pretty much the same for me. You'd be surprised as to what gets me into this trade or that, it might be the smallest thing on the surface but in total it's just putting together alot of different pieces of a puzzle together. Having had experience trading stocks, bonds and metals also...

Oh well, out as well 1580.50.

Will close half at 1568.50, the rest between 4 and 4:15. (did I just jinx myself?)

I'm selling naz here, 1583.50, going for lod.

Wouldn't a prolonged economic downturn pull down even the most desirable locales, ie, manhattan? Picture 3 times as many panhandlers on the streets, violent crimes skyrocketing as people get generally desperate, police force cutbacks as tax receipts begin to fall off etc. Think...

You sure you didn't get your buttons crossed, or that the offer was actually $1 lower than the bid?

Amen.

Is there a good setting to use on max disk space used and compression?

Speaking of memory, is there some cache setting that one changes? I remember someone at dell's help desk told me to change a setting somewhere, can someone refresh my, er, memory? Still getting these damn slowdowns on TWS every day.

Actually, if there's one group of people you can easily prove you are "profiting" off of, it's the chartists. But like I said earlier, I don't feel charts are worthless, but studied in isolation they are always behind. Sure there are certain markets where they might prove profitable --...

Don't get me wrong kiwi, I've been around here long enough to know no one gets anywhere by saying you can't trade this way or that. And perhaps I am biased because of the markets I watch, which tend not to lend themselves to simple chart analysis. But I don't think it's a stretch to say...

It's tough to think when you are trading markets liquid enough that it doesn't matter if you're trading 10x the size that you are, the trade is the same. So the temptation becomes, why not? I'm sure there are certain traders that can elevate their size in geometric fashion without skipping a...