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My opinion of your trading savvy took a major major hit today... A short time ago, you said you were a learning trader. These above "yesses" shove you down to a startover, starry-eyed newbie.

Trading futures and an account anywhere near that small should be oxymorons. That is essentially gambling. That and "$300" margins are the stuff of insanity.

Jack's latest discovery, in a Happy Meal!!!

Quote from jack hershey: Thank you for giving readers another shot at reading the point I was making. There has not exactly been a chorus of acclimation rising to your defense. Your comments indicate to me that you do not get the point I made. No one understands the points you make...

It has already been well established that married men outlive bachelors. Older men tend to be isodated and have more health problems. On the other hand, they found older men with living sisters also live longer, for a similar reason. So what it is basically telling you is, if you are...

redirecting (IRA and 401k) tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute," as reported by InvestmentNews.com. How is this different from SS/FICA?

But to be realistic, the odds of becoming longterm self-supporting are still pretty long.

OTA has just been lambasted in the March issue of Kiplingers magazine - along with pretty much every other hotel seminar course - TMTT, Investools, BetterTrades, etc. etc.

And based on the Broker section and other reviews, ET is defenseless when someone decides to post 3-5 reviews of the same. People review their own books. It has taken others to notice this and try to get ET to clean it up. We have one: cold/c-kid/Jasonn/etc who has over 80 aliases here and...

All Californians are completely subject to the Federal Laws. The CA laws that others do not have are likely few and far between. Most laws are shared by some to many states.

Quote from jack hershey: Or it could be up down ( Dom, Dom) Or it could be up, down (Non dom, Dom) ... For me it is a long, then a short. The long is dom, non dom, dom. The following short is Dom, non dom, dom both traders go through the same doms and non doms; on trader is...

Quote from bigarrow: You are often critical of those posting about trading on here. I am critical when people live in a dream world. Anonymous unsubstantiated claims and assertion are without merit There are a fair number of "system vendor" sites and auditing services, where a large...

For a minute, I thought those were Surf's shoes :D

When someone says $300-$400 is no big deal on a $50K account, then you should be requesting proof also.

I suspect as of a couple of years ago, people thought Bear, Lehman, AIG and CitiBank were also similar to the companies you mention before summer-fall 2008. In 2000, people were bidding up web & telecomm companies to 700X next year's rose-colored-glasses earnings. 8-person companies with an...

One man's "liberator" is another man's terrorist...

Which trading floor would that be? Seems like most of the "floors" are now lots of traders doing their trades electronically. Here are market makers in the modern world (Philadelphia Exchange). Notice the lack of colored jackets and people screaming and yelling in a pit?

Quote from dalen: Well I'm still beat by traders like lescor. I don't know if you've read his thread or not but he took a 110k and turned it into 170K in month. 1 month? When does that qualify as averaging $300-$400 a day? Note: Average. That basically means, permanently. Not a month...

marvelous. Please post your broker statements for the last 3 years...