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    Kiplinger Busts Hotel Seminar Trading Riches: OnlineTradingAcademy, BetterTrades, etc

    Yes, that a Fool and His Money are Soon Parted.
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    computer question -- am i being ripped off here?

    I always buy from Dell, HP or other manufacturers, especially when . I don't need a middleman to drive up the price. I thought Christian Gross was right on. Having some redundancy and connecting together off the shelf stuff is better than complex and expensive. NASA built their own complex...
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    How long should you paper trade before trading with real money?

    Of course I answered the questions. If you disagree, then say something useful, rather than cutting and pasting someone else's questions. And further, lets have the OP ask their own clarifications.
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    Question

    why did the mod remove my post from this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=191426 I asked him why he is using a company's name as his user ID and starting a thread titled by this company's name. And if he/she works for the company and whether they are a...
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    What's the difference between a government and terrorist?

    Where in the world did you get that idea?
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    Spammer - Feb21

    userID: TheDawg http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2739623#post2739623 If you examine his 12 (so far) posts and replies from others, you will realize he runs a service. It is disguised as a Blog. If you read the blog, you will realize that referring to "our clients"...
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    Recommended Books?

    FWIW, here is the EliteTrader Options book review page http://www.elitetrader.com/bo/index.cfm?action=showbooks&CatID=4
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    Post a picture of your shoes

    Depends on what they trade... Some traders have a real shoe fetish...
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    Average daily profit with $50K account?

    highly highly unlikely. Every trader has a specific Risk of Ruin, based on their capitalization, experience, trade/portfolio/money management, edges, diversification, etc. Then there is commissions, taxes, bid/ask spread, fees and other costs of trading which eat away at any perceived...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    I can't help but think that if it were this easy to make 9-11% with little principle risk, then one would think the tens of thousands of banks, hedge funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, well-funded investors, financial advisors, sovereign wealth funds, and even...
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    How long should you paper trade before trading with real money?

    No, 30 days of trading is not statistically significantly. That is what is lost on "unretired".
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    computer question -- am i being ripped off here?

    +1. Stick with major retailers on/ofline - you can get a better price for your money. Trying to get a fancy box just for trading, from a relatively unknown online is asking for trouble. There are plenty of fast machines for less at very reputable sites.
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    How long should you paper trade before trading with real money?

    These are ridiculous claims. 30 days does not PROVE anything - Jef, you should ignore this assertion. unretired is nota particularly knowledgeable trader. At 30 days, it is barely out of diapers.
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    Kiplinger Busts Hotel Seminar Trading Riches: OnlineTradingAcademy, BetterTrades, etc

    Further evidence that Jack reigns as the master paper trader of ET... This was a recently published photo of Jack's trading workstation... The "1, 2, 3" keys are for #contracts. The "A, B, C" keys were a problem for Jack, so he reprogrammed them as "nAptime, Buy, Cell"
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    How long should you paper trade before trading with real money?

    you should probably paper trade until you are routinely profitable. "Later" and "no hurry" are always a good idea in trading
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    Spammer

    user ID: LloydH basically appear to be multiple pointers to his website/videos
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    Philadelphia Region?

    Fine. Analyze the 6000 posts and prove this via statistically valid methods (other than your mindless driveby shootings)
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    I went totally broke because...

    Quote from stock piker: Their win-rate doesn't support 4/1 risk, they are not trading an 80% or better win-rate. Obviously, you said nothing about this. Not that anything you have said has much interest to it. But if you are looking for people on ET who are psychic, then you need to go...
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    I went totally broke because...

    Quote from stock piker: Bullshit. I am around traders who make 7 figures in a prop environment. Yes, but if you take their pictures down from your wall, then you will be alone. ... with horrible MM. They do receive looks at major secondaries at good discounts (edge), but their bread...
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    Philadelphia Region?

    I could not possibly touch you in that category...
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