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Sure thing! Lobster rolls and a few hours at the Chess Forum are on me! :D

Now what?

You're so giddy, it actually sounds like you made some money on this trade. Make a withdrawal and go treat yourself -- positive, non-random reinforcement is key (was going to add "for mental stability", but who am I kidding?) GJ! :)

Doubtful. Tell that to my index finger. I probably do less than half of that less than half. The rest is just so I can be cool eLEETtrader!

Hell is other people :)

8 years now, and my accountant is starting to get nervous. :)

All I can recommend is that you somehow incorporate adaptability into your system as well as in your mindset -- that is your ace in the hole. You need to embrace change, not fear it, because there will always be profit to be made off those who cannot shift when the market does.

Maybe instead of waiting for a hard percentage, I think you'd have to have a very solid understanding of what it is (or was) you are (were) exploiting with that particular system, and to question whether changing market conditions have now invalidated that edge. This way, you can begin to...

No one is taking mr. double seriously, and no one here is saying scaling into positions is inherently flawed. I'm mostly responding to b1s2's contention that reducing bet size can turn a losing strategy into a winning one via continually avging down (remember, only in forex land does this...

Whether it's martingale or single unit increments, relying on indiscriminately increasing size in response to drawdown as the primary method to ensure a profit is basically an admission that: 1) You have no idea how to time your entries. 2) You don't know how to take a loss. If that's the...

Well, for one thing, one can bet one unit and lose 100 units. One can keep adding to that loser until the 100 units loses 10,000 units at the same pace, etc. In other words, when the oscillating system stops oscillating and the rubber band breaks. My question would be: unless you are trading...

They are nothing alike, the house edge in roulette is permanent and unchanging; in blackjack the edge can shift to the player at the right moments. Again, making miniscule bet sizes cannot convert a losing strategy into a winning one, all you are doing is delaying the inevitable and...

Nope. How about going long when Euro was near .88 and holding/pyramiding until 1.34 then flipping your position and repeating back down to 1.20 would have probably made you tons more. In any case, you tell Mr. Double to give me a call me in 6 years. :)

No you're quite correct -- they're just hard for me and I'm just that much of a wuss. :) Sorry cashmoney, I know you're looking for a serious answer, but like Electric said, you gotta try harder than that.

No, it doesn't. You bet the minimum when you are forced to play at a losing game -- eg, roulette. Start with a million chips and $1 bet, keep betting on black using martingale, and you might provide the illusion of having an edge on the game temporarily. But it still doesn't change the...

If I still lived across the street from the gym, I might give that routine a shot. But now it's a 30min subway ride. Anyways, my priority is more maintenance/fat-loss now rather than growth, I don't even squat anymore cuz I'd rather save my knees for running. In all seriousness cashmoney...

Somthing like it: Mon -- chest, biceps, tris (pulldowns) Tues -- 60-min run Wed -- 60-min run, hills Thurs -- shoulders, back, tris (skullcrushers) Fri -- 60-min run, hills Sat -- rest Sun -- 60-min run

Underleveraging does not an edge make.

Well that was my point -- comparing dollars to crude is much like comparing 2 stocks in completely different sectors. In any case, when it comes to currency differences, all markets are affected by simple exchange rate changes, eg, IBM staying at $70 will fluctuate in terms of euros. But that...

I can understand comparing the action between crude and oil stocks, gold vs silver, corn vs wheat etc, but why extend crude comparisons to the dollar or currencies? It would be akin to studying the movement of Cheescake Factory vs IBM; sure, both will share direction when general p/e's are...