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Brown & Company. 1998

You aren't alone. It is very, very hard to stop out and not try to pick another bottom. I've learned to give myself just one more shot at it. Then I walk away. There is always another day.

The famous last words of an over-leveraged and busted trader: "BUT IT WAS SUCH A GREAT SYSTEM."

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Okay. And I can open my wallet and give somebody a Visa card. Whereas it took you about 1,000 words to explain your bitcoin transaction. What am I missing here?

Then basically, you're screwed.

Okay, you have now weirded me out. Welcome to my ignore list.

Your question goes to the issue of why many traders move to indexes, instead of the index component equities. Focusing on the index alone can help remove at least the uncertainty of "What the hell is happening with the stock?"

Morse gave you links to two good sources of information, neither of which were self-promotion. If you have your own materials and you are still here posting simpleton questions, you should review what he's provided to you. And don't come here again acting like a stupid ass.

If your trading is discretionary, unfortunately you won't have an answer to your question until you go live, because you haven't faced the most important tests of any trader. Before you begin, set a hard stop for how much pain you are willing to take in your account, and stick with that...

"Beneficiaries get their money when the insured person dies." PM me if you are volunteering.

I doubt your problem is RAM. Run an internet speed test. Also defrag and restart your computer.

Well, yes, but isn't giving solar power to Arizona something akin to sending ice to Eskimos?

I'm replying because your challenges are not unlike those I faced when new to trading years ago. Thus, some observations: 1. I get the impression that you are running watchlists on equities looking to buy weakness on a short term time frame. Not a good idea, although a strong bull market can...

However...I would caution the OP that simply because a strategy is discussed in Stocks & Commodities, is no reason to believe that it will be profitable for him or anyone else going forward. I have never seen a strategy in the publication that backtested profitably on my systems.

My experience is that when you have a thought of walking away, you are better off following that impulse. The ability to do so is a great sign of trading maturity.

Once you get caught in a rush to cover shorts, you'll learn the hard way that there is indeed such a thing as panic buying.

You're confusing options and futures. Which is a good sign that you should not yet be trading either.

It feels good. Don't stop.

Programming a computer therapist for a binary true/false response is inefficient. She needs only one response: "What do you think?"