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    Good luck with that :) And no, I don't expect that most people will inherit the funds to trade with, I certainly did not. But, a lack of funds is not a reason to prey for a run of 7's. Brandon
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    The pump and dump thread

    http://home.cfl.rr.com/tradingscans/tradinggaps.html Jeff has added a great new scanning feature to the intraday section which will find traps. It is updated a few minutes into the day. Brandoon
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    It doesnt, but if it does then have to go to plan B(heavy narcotics, LOL) . Brandon
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    I don't think I have ever made a secret of the fact that I'm here to market my service. If I did not get clients from ET I would probably never post because Im honestly quiet tired of a lot of it, but I do get a good number of people here and it pays well. I've never made a secret of that. In...
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    SEYKOTA's method?

    http://www.originalturtles.org/scams.htm This site also has a PDF Doc of the original (COMPLETE and FREE) Turtle System. Brandon
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    And I really did not know what to say, because for a long time that had been my life. I was a walking headache. I was in the program for 3 1/2 weeks, and really the entire point of the program was to let a person know that, everything has been done to try to ease your pain (every setup tried...
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    I am not as big of a fan of "Trading Psychology" as most seem to be. If you go to work for a respected hedge fund they dont make you sign forms not to disclose their mental techniques, however they will sue the hell out of you should you talk about their timing models and entry/exit criterias...
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    The pump and dump thread

    Update. FNM setup on Friday. We have taken partial profits and are holding a small amount for a potential larger gain, however the stock did close very poorly. Continue to keep stops under pivot points. Amgen, Inc (AMGN) has rallied sharply over the last several months to an area of strong...
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    Proper Money Management and Risk Control means never putting yourself in a position that one bad trade, or even a series of 10, will put you out of business. Remember, your primary business objective must be to stay in business. What is Money Management and Risk Control? Money Management...
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    Money Managment: How you Manage Money (Toni says Im terrible at it) :p Risk Managment: How you handle your risk. (I recently went sky diving with my brother, again, Toni thinks my risk managment skills are poor) Trade Managment: "If you go sky diving, no sex for a month", and then you go...
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    Of the people I know the most successful tend to be systems (mechanical) traders or have some sort of statistical model that they follow with some discretion thrown in (An example of this would be my NQ gap trades which I have a thread here about, a lot of the stuff from "Trader Vic" etc). Of...
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    Risk managment is another aspect of staying in the game. It involves making sure that your money managment doesnt mean shit. Some expamples would be that trading right after the Fed should be done real small (if at all). Some days the market is really in a knot over something (terrorism, war...
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    I think that the first thing a trader should give serious consideration to is MONEY and RISK MANAGMENT. It will be the single most important issue in a trading career success regardless of the method you finally decide to implement. I don't claim to have the worlds best method, what I do have is...
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    No need to apologize. I will clarrify a few things anyway just for everyone. My URL is attatched to all of my messages and under my name. The reason for this is that I am a site Sponsor (I sponsor Chit-chat where Candle has all of his polls). This helps keep ET running and because I have my...
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    Totally illegit. All I want is to sucker you poor souls out of more of your hard earned cash. I'm the devil. Ask 777 or DanielM, stay away from me and don't fall for my crap. Brandon :D
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    Toni and I got involved with mentoring traders in September of 1999. During that time I have seen a number of traders, both those who have made it and those who have not. I have also been fortunate enough to meet many people who have been in the game for decades, some of whom have been very...
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    Much is made of the very high rate of failure in the short term trading industry. I would like to briefly touch on this. I will be the first person to admit to you that most people who give very active trading a try are not going to find the success they had hoped for. There are many reasons for...
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    Over the last month or so a surprising number of newbies have been starting to come into the market, more than anytime I can remember since early 2000. Maybe it should not be such a surprise given that the bull is back and all (This according to Barrons, Cavuto, Joe Battataglia and all those...
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    The pump and dump thread

    I'm gonna call it a week. Had two shorts this morning, one in the NQ the other in the ES which both turned out nicely plus the FNM swing which has some of it opened and profits taken on the rest. I hope all of you have benefited from this thread. Enjoy your weekend. Brandon
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    Mentorship

    I think a lot of it depends on who is doing the mentoring. Unfortunatly in the trading industry a lot of very low quality stuff can pass as high quality since everything else is generally so bad. I am still very much of the opinion that having someone to show you along and point you in the right...
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