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Thanks for sharing that. :)

Great point and one that few inexperienced traders think of.

I prefer the Dave Van Ronk version of Cocaine Blues. :D (Instrumental intro, then) C Every time I meet my baby, go uptown F Police come and they knock me down C F G C G C Cocaine, run all around my brain Chorus: E Yeah baby, come here quick F This ol'...

I made $10k trading JNPR when it was added to the S&P 500. Was up $20k but, can't recall the details, something with the margin rules made me think if I sold it I couldn't buy it back the same day. Sounds weird but don't recall exactly what happened. Plus I thought it was going higher. I...

I'm sure you're just airing out you frustration, but why post it here? You should call IB and talk to them about it. Sorry about your loss.

Is he as brilliant in real life as he appears on TV? :D Interesting pullback on the futures. Afraid of the little old Fed? :D

I've had problems the last 2 weeks with orders I thought were filled, shorts specifically, and weren't. The BookTrader showed them as filled and then suddenly they weren't. I thought I had covered the shorts a few seconds later for quick scalps of .30 and .50 trading ER2. But instead just the...

That's it. I'd obviously much rather "miss" a trade then take a bad one. When there are no clear signals and I don't really have a feel for the direction I just pass - like this morning. I trade ER2 quite a bit and it was just really choppy this AM and continues to be now. QM is getting a nice...

Yeah, me too as far as thinking it was a "bargain" on the way down. Think it got up to 165 and is now just over $1. :) Of course in those days. or at least for a few years, if you bought the pullbacks you made great money. But then there was the ultimate pullback/bubble burst. I remember seeing...

Yes I obviously was kidding. It was a joke. Didn't you get it? That's why I included the link in case some newbies here aren't familiar with CMGI. In case anyone isn't it was perhaps the poster child stock of the internet bubble. They kept announcing stock splits every few months since they knew...

Hey don't forget CMGI owned/owns? AltaVista. :D http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cmgi

Thanks for sharing that. Seems right.

That's me too, but everyone's different. I'm open to learning more about detecting what's going on into the close on other days and effective ways to trade it. When I don't see a trend, or don't have a stong sense of what's next, I'm not trading.

Well put. :)

LOL :D Oh, really? Whatever you say boss. You're the man. :)

Thanks, Mark. :) Actually we're saying a lot of the same things and just trying to be helpful. You've done a great job of giving people some really useful directions to look in. No one can tell you how to trade but we can be helpful in pointing people in the right direction to learn.

Agree. The other thing is there are a lot of factors affecting how any of the eminis open each day. So to say "just do this" or "just do that" or "don't do this" or "don't do that" is pretty stupid. Success in this type of trade, or any trade, is created by: 1. Observation. This is what the...

You'd better believe it was real. :)

I lived at Lake Tahoe a while back. :) It's true. Tahoma in the middle of the west shore. :) The week I moved out it snowed 8 feet in 2 days! True. And 11 feet that week. Looked like this. http://ggg.ucdavis.edu/gallery/imgs/tahoma.jpg

Ooops. Sorry she didn't say a thing. Wasn't wearing a ring. She did mention some trader she had dumped. Hmmm.