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    Futures Leverage?

    If this is your motivation, then you should run away, fast. You have NO idea how much and how fast you can lose all your money trading leveraged investments. That is what happens to almost everyone who tries it. Your friend is a fool, and you are about to become road kill Get away from...
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    A new strategy for Iran regarding the price of oil.

    So are your threads and your commentaries
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    Proposition to Trade your account ?

    Well, this blows it all. You obviously have not even reached the level of successful trader yet if you use garbage like Fib and EW. The only ones who use this successfully are those selling it to others.
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    Trader28 informational thread

    Is it possible to do a GLOBAL ignore for all ETers on this idiot, once identified?
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    Gas prices will fall to 2 dollars..

    I think the opposite. There will be a huge boom in smaller gas-efficient vehicles. There will be a huge boom in building hybrids. In building and converting plugins There will be a huge boom in reuse, reduce, recycle. Some companies have actually talked about mining landfills, to get...
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    Gas prices will fall to 2 dollars..

    Recent sugar prices are an excellent example. Everyone thought Brazil hit it on the head, turning sugar into fuel. Then, reality hit.
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    We've never had...

    1) We aren't in a prolonged period of falling real estate currently. It is a year or so. 2) We have had numerous prolonged periods of falling real estate. I don't know which history books you read.
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    Home Based Forex Business Plan Example

    what is a "home based Forex Business plan" ??? You have a computer and an internet. You find a way to make more money than you lose. Why make this complicated?
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    Government Will Award $300 million For The Best Battery

    And of course, you are dead wrong. Gas internal combustion engines are 20-30% efficient. Electric/battery power use almost all of the energy. In addition, battery/ultracapacitor units can reuse a lot of the braking energy, and gas engines cannot. That is why plug-ins have such a lower cost...
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    Is This Timothy Sykes In 15 Years ???

    THIS ANNOYING OLD FRIEND OF ET, SEEMS TO HAVE SIMILAR SELF-PROMOTION AND ANNOYING HABITS OF TIMMAY... http://livewithoscar.com/
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    How do I get over wanting to "hit home runs?"

    You will find this works quite well. Unfortunately, many replies you are getting are based on gut feeling, not statistics. Here is what I would do in Excel #1 -- enter this data for all trades [these are the column headings] TRADE Final-Profit Max-Fav-Excursion (MFE) #2 --...
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    How do I get over wanting to "hit home runs?"

    Pump your last 100+ trades into a spreadsheet. Look at the MAXIMUM POINT the trade moved in your direction (this is called Maximum Favorable Excursion). Then, try a profit target that cuts off all your trades at different percentages of your largest max profit. See what the average win is...
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    Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

    Right on. I am glad for these high prices. I drive a new Civic, and get superb mileage. It will finally force us to stop breastfeeding on OPEC oil, and start getting serious about conservation, energy efficiency, and making good on the 10 or so very promising alternative technologies, such as...
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    How much are you worth?

    Most of the people who put down their "wealth" on this poll are dreamers. But you are correct in the need for that amount to retire well.
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    Bats rebate

    Yes. Go into a cave, and you will get lots of liquidity from the bats. It makes an excellent fertilizer
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    US legal residents are not allowed to trade futures?

    Quote from crgarcia: According to IB: US legal residents are not allowed to trade futures unless explicitly approved by the CFTC. Click here for a list of non-US futures that have been approved by the CFTC for trading...
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    How much are you worth?

    Don't feel bad. Most of the poll responses are papertrading or goal profits. When voting anonymously, ETers tend to dream big. You are probably little diff than most here.
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    I just got dissed...

    Well, you blew your opportunity to look smart with "trust no won." Guess you are also a wannabe...
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    Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

    Might take it more seriously if the site wasn't soliciting for $$$
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