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Psychics. Clairvoyants. OK. Yes. They must be. Because the overwhelmiong majority of trades I saw looked worse than guesses. Some of them were based on ideas that I wasted my rapidly waning life testing. When I asked innocent Socratic questions I was shooed away. I did see a lot of one-trial...

This is so embarassing. I thought YOU were stupid and misspelt "auger", as in the aviation expression "auger into the ground", which is what Journals reminds me of. Is there an augury thread in Journals? (As an aside to readers, why do you suppose it is that Canadians feel obliged to talk down...

augurs? Sorry, I don't get the reference. Don't find a user by that name. Was that a trick question?

Don't see it in TWS, message center, or email. I think they're just raising YOUR margin.

Oh, my! Here I was thinking of Journals! Some weeks ago I read learned opinions that ET's greatest minds resided there. I checked.

You may. But please don't use my real name.

Thanks. I saw it referenced in a concealed carry handgun forum, of all places. I was a brilliantly intuitive trader for many years before I started backtesting.

You all may already know this, guess I was curled up asleep under a warm rock when they published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Proof of the traditional Southern aphorism: "Truly stupid people don't know that they are." As to how this might apply to ET, I am...

Until you retire, put your market talents to work in managing investments for retirement and in identifying EOD multi-day swing trades. At night hone your daytrading skills by analyzing the day's price action and backtesting ideas. You'll get your thousands of hours of experience that way. But...

Anything Soros says is suspect. Every word out of his mouth is self-serving. You probably cannot even believe the opposite of what he says.

I have been trying to understand Jack for nearly as long as he has been trying to be understood. This Odyssey has been not unlike the Five Stages of Grieving. But this morning, after months of algorithm dicking and threshold tuning, at precisely 9:31:25 an indicator that Jack inspired called the...

Jack says: "Have some laughs about how YOUR taxes are being spent checking out Hypostomus and his aliases. ET is apparently famous at the IRS these days." As an associate of said Hypostomus, who unfortunately no longer posts here, I can attest to you the truth of what Jack avers about the...

My son was at Texas Tech only a week when he called me and said, "Dad! There's nothing to do here but drink and fuck!" So he went with the flow and got a part-time job bouncing drunks at a strip joint.

Totally agreed. Test, test, test. And think creatively about how to structure stops mathematically. Don't fall into the lazy mental trap of thinking only of the kinds of stops brokers offer.

Your question belies a desperate need to overcomplicate in compensation for paucity of ideas. It is not infrastrucure and software and transportability and professional affiliations and all the things you mentioned that bring success. It is trading ideas. My best system codes up in about 60...

Vingt-cinq Trente-huit, who among us has not experienced what you described so eloquently? Who has not wrestled Shaitan, or been tempted by Mara? I say to you there is but one strength in that war. It is not virtue. It is not abstinence. It is not avoidance. It is not patience. It is not faith...

I cleaned up this morning, not too hard since Saturday was just two days ago, and made my way to the offices of Cobra Trading in Allen Texas. La receptioniste looked a bit edgy, probably needing it but not getting any. Not my reason to be there, though, I'm on a guerilla mission. "Hello!", I...

Of course getting laid is important. Fortunately, Ole Fat Miss is just a short flight away via Mobile. Southern Miss is where the fattest girls are. I guarantee you that, dead drunk and in complete darkness, you will not care. Holeing up, so to speak, for a weekend in a Marriott with a fat girl...

Have we met? You seem to know me.

Truth to tell, I think Portland is the place to be. But I am an congenital trailer trash redneck Republican, so I can't go there except on vacation.