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SSF's can also be used successfully to trade spreads, for example (like between the computer components of the dow, and the dow itself). there was a decent article about htis in Active Trader a while ago. the OP is correct. SSF's would be a terrible idea to intraday trade or scalp. the...

friends and family accounts are a TYPE of advisor account the accounts that are UNDER the master advisor account in a friend and family account structure are referred to as "clients". yes, technically they are not CUSTOMERS, but they are CLIENTS. in the case of an advisor account, if the...

"but rarely if ever is game theory mentioned. " r u kidding me? game theory is CONSTANTLY mentioned in regards to trading. numerous seminars, books, etc. mention it. threads here have mentioned it (including posts by me) ,etc. game theory is a hyoooge part of understanding risk and...

dood. check your humour meter. see: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

your friend may have had a personal "revelation" but it is hardly a revelation that markets act chaotically, and that chaos theory and complexity theory can help understand markets dozens of papers, etc. have been written on this topic for about as long as chaos theory has been around...

"Gold futures dont have enough volume to make a steady chart " they most certainly do if u are using the front month

i did exactly that, except with DIA not SPY i traded DIA for 6 months before I started trading YM this offers several advantages. each 100 lot of DIA stock means $1 per dow point movement. this is 1/5 the size of the dow mini so, i could trade 200-400 DIA shares and simulate trading...

issues of semantics aside (when do longer term trades, cease being trades and become investments), i enjoy both i scalp (short time frame) dow futures, because it offers smooth equity curve, incredible leverage and little risk per trade (very small tight stops). i invest/trade longerterm...

btw, two other points if yer picks keep running after you sell, that's GOOD it means you are picking strong stocks second of all, memory is VERY selective. we tend to remember the winners we sold early moreso than the ones we sold that didn't do that

scaling out is how i get around the "selling the winners too early" vs. the "letting a winner turn into a loser" paradox. simply put, take profits at logical points and then use a trailing stop to stay in as long as possible on your last lot it's not perfect, but it works well for my...

you are correct i have an IB "margin" account. the only thing the margin gets you around is the 3 day settlement thing you have 1:1 buying power (for stocks) and cannot short (stocks) you CAN (and i do) trade futures in an ira you can short futures and you can short single stock...

jos, to SOME extent yes, but they are not proxies. similar discrepancies are seen between XAU and gold spot./futures price

i read something similar to that ACM. are u aware if it has ever been applied to a taxpayer? i am wondering if it is overly conservative accountants/tax attorneys worries, or if there is case law behind it?

and u can definitely trade futures in an IRA. i do it frequently you cannot short STOCK, but u can short futures, and of course buy puts you cannot sell a naked option in an IRA

bighog is a typical elitetrader poster employing the #1 logical fallacy here "it didn't work for me, therefore it can't work" usually, this is accompanied by an aftertaste of bitterness just because he could not scalp profitably doesn't mean it's not a valuable strategy. i make my living...

i find futures easier to trade (index futures) than individual stocks - on an intraday basis

"If an indicator by itself is less than 50% correct (which it is), then it is no more valid than a coin toss. But if an indicator in combination with other factors (price, fundamentals, etc) can be used as an aid to get you to 51%+ success, it is worthwhile." here we go with the reification...

it was an order to SELL not to buy which makes more sense, btw. if he had put in a limit order to BUY @ 1, it would not have gone thru. i was trading nikkei that night. the index futures dumped about 300 points in a matter of minutes it was INSANE i was too terrified to enter a...

"There was an article in SFO about trin which I found actually confusing that stated if trin is over 1 its bullish and under 1 bearish but gave examples that actually seemed to be reversed" this is an oft-repeated myth. it's also why i stay away from magazines such as SFO

clueless or not, i am still waiting for evidence that 97% of the "market" (and market includes supposedly equities and futures) is short term speculators. evidence not provided. because there is none.