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Treadmills with LCD screens hooked up to DSL lines so you can run and trade -- now that's an idea.

Because when I bought the $24 PUT, I felt QQQ was headed down. I sold the $23 PUT to reduce the cost of my $24 PUT. In the end, I wound up selling my $24 PUT for a profit and buying back the $23 PUT. Looking back, I should have never bought back the $23 PUT but then I would have been...

If you are truly following a "system" and there are moments when you choose not to follow it, in my opinion either your system is incomplete and you know it (then why else not follow it) or you're just assuming you know something about the market based on a hunch.

Most definitely!

Thunder, Quantum theory suggests that anything that can happen will, and it will branch off into other universes. So, in effect, the most impossible things are occuring right now, just perhaps not in this universe. The problem of life not being given enough time to evolve from the poor...

I'm not trying to make excuses -- just realizing for the first time how dreary this office is. :)

Yes... and no. That sounds vaguely like the kind of question a therapist would ask. Are you going to ask me to lie on the couch? :cool:

This thread just reminded me of a funny joke I heard at the bar the other day. Go up to someone and ask, "What do you call a black man that is flying a 747?" When they say, "I don't know," then you tell them, "A pilot! What are you a f***ing racist?!"

Another thing: It seems to be that if any of these 5k to 1000k people are actually legit, they must basically buy or sell ES and then walk away for hours and days and hope they are correct on the direction of the market. The really amazing thing about futures is that you can basically...

I must say, this has definately been a real experience. After getting my ass kicked by losing $200 in 30 seconds on one trade in YM, I have a new appreciation for all the traders on this board. Now that I'm trading real money, I feel like I'm part of this big family. I'm not keeping a...

I've got to sort through all of this advice. Oldtrader, I owe you a response, but I'll do that a little later. What I need to do now is figure out what all of this means. There are a lot of views here and they all could be right coming from their source -- but not be applicable to me and my...

I know EXACTLY what I did wrong. I made trades without any good reason to make them. I over-leveraged myself and caused myself to come a few inches from a panic-attack while watching just NOISE in the ES market. I did not have the patience to wait for the market to come to me. I didn't...

I predict this thread will only take one page.

I'm not quitting until one of two things happen. a) I die. b) I end up broke and living in an old beat-up van down by the river.

Who is going to return this coat to whomever lost it? You are affecting the final effect of the outcome. You two are both going to the store with too much money. I'd rather be rich than poor, then I could buy a nice car. They're getting on my nerves with their new stereo that they...

The SEC has a screw lose and there is way too much money affecting the politics of this organization.

Did you ever stop to wonder what would have happened if Neo took both?

I don't think a beginning trader should apply a mechanical system and let a computer trade it. What would I learn? I'm already learning, just by watching the ECN's, how specialists operate. I can see the kind of games that are played with putting up a bunch of shares at ask and then pulling...

Although it may not sound like a revelation, it is to me. I've determined through my own thought processes and from the advice from others that the psychological implications of being in the market under a highly leveraged instrument is extremely tough on my emotions. When I trade QQQ...

Here is an answer. Trading involves strict discipline. If you have a cut and dry system, it is immensely hard to sit there for 6 hours at a time and not do anything with the market. Basically, it almost feels like you are some "order operator" that is just mechanically operating according to...