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neke somehow, regardless of how many times you may have seen it before, what sticks out on a loss like this is portfolio management problems: 1) where was the overall portfolio disaster stop? There is never a reason to have a daily loss more than a few %. Avoiding losses is more...

This person does not know what he is doing. Tried to tell him a few times, but is too self-convinced to learn.

*sigh*. Why do newbies always have to discover and make the same mistakes en route to learning how to trade? I see at least 3 serious flaws in the OP...

if you started Dec 2009, you probably have 3-10 years to go, losing a few $tens of thousands, thousands of hours of your time, and then, probably have 0.0-0.2% chances of becoming a lifetime successful trader. You will try everything, become convinced 5-10 times you made it and change your mind...

The main problem with OTA is they paint pictures of people making 10-15% a month, becoming wealthy, and a lot of other nebulous hype, but if one examines their course topics, you realize that it is a $6,000 trading 101 book, featuring a lot of methods out of a standard trading techniques book...

because $1,-$5,000 in real money is worth a lot more than his $250,000 in mental money.

As someone said, it takes a lot of skill to screw things up that bad...

No, but it is a site that spammers exclusively target for free promotional And since most spam posts are from people with only a few posts looking for places to stuff their spam, and they often then squawk in denials via their own or other low-post aliases, it is hard to take either of you...

True, but frightening...

The deficit is way too large. The chances of a transaction tax are probably no more or no less because of this bill. The Feds still have a load of blame they can spread to justify anything.

a serious edge is not available for $99/month. It is worth a lot more than that. But still, people sign up. And vendors offer things like indicators, basic TA, Gann, EW, Fib, astrology and other useless stuff because there are those desperate enough to pay...

Barack Obama, the peacemaker, winner of the Nobel Prize...

Waste of time. Learn to trade for yourself.

If we had a nickel for every time one of these newbies thought their backtested equity curve would turn into a lucrative hedge/managed funds opportunity "Code is worth over quarter million $ in monopoly money..." :D

And handcuffs for every Union, Trial Lawyer, AMA, NRA, or other lobbyist who wanders around DC trying to water down or gerrymander legislation to fit their special interests.

that has been said several times, but some of the newbies are intent on pumping the OP for info. Let the man do his journal. As others said, he at least has a clue.

Du-uh...

This is a screamingly obvious statement known to all corp officers, but it does not change the reality of what I said above. There is no protection to someone who cosigns personally, commits some form of malpractice, fraud, criminal act, etc. He is completely liable in such cases, according to...

The 2 million jobs saved/created were in China :D

I don't think the OP said "here is an an opportunity to self-promote, please spam your responses." Obviously, they were looking for independent recommendations.