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One of my best friends recently accused me of being "one of them" when I challenged the science behind human causation of global warming. I wasn't saying it was wrong, just that we didn't know everything about climate and greenhouse gases. He's an otherwise smart guy, but unfortunately a...

Yup. PDT Rules This is one reason folks move to index futures.

Right now I get hit with data fees in both of my accounts. Sounds like I can cancel my data subscriptions in those accounts and just subscribe in the FFA. And like you said, just keep enough $$$ in the FFA to cover them. What about that rule that data is free if you have > $30 in commish...

Something else that was never clear to me was do you have to actually fund the FFA, or can it be empty? I'd be setting one up for myself for trading 2 of my own personal accounts. I don't want to trade from the FFA directly, just in the 2 "real" accounts.

Kinda like Zeno's Paradox

Sooner or later ElectricSavant will reply...

They'll all be shaken out in the next big correction. They don't call them "corrections" for nothing, eh?

Except that it's got twice the leverage of QQQQ, there's no real advantage to trading QLD. Why try to replace an already super-liquid instrument? QID is the most liquid inverse to QQQQ. It just happens to be 2X the Naz100

Walk, hell. I'm in the best shape of my life right now and better shape than 95% of the kids today who're mostly lounging on the couch watching "Reno 911" and eating bags of chips. :cool:

I'll be 49 in a week. While I may never really succeed at this trading stuff, it's still been the most intellectual stimulation I've had in 20 years. I really do like it and find it interesting.

I'm waiting for Jack Hershey to chime in about life starting at 72...

The bank of canada governor spoke at 2:35PM but I can't believe his opinion matters that much to the US stock market.

Same here. Horrible every day for stocks. Seems better for e-minis.

What was that big dip and recovery at 14:35 on YM?

Trading: one of the last bastions of male domination. :cool:

Dangit, COGO gave a nice clear beginner's long signal. I was all set to click the transmit button on the order at $15.25. Then I kept saying "no I'll wait for a better price". Then it shot up and left me behind and then it was after 11:00. Bah, I'm such a wimp. I need to start just...

LOL, when I first started looking at this method there was only one journal to review. Now there are two plus the current long one. Plus the FTT/Futures one. The body of information is growing exponentially!

Spyder, I gotta hand it to you. You're an incredibly dedicated, hard-working, and altruistic person who obviously doesn't need more than 4 hours of sleep. How do you keep up the ET chat room, 2 journals AND trade?

As we found in one of the previous incarnations of this journal, the yahoo data for float is notoriously unreliable. Also, the institutional and insider ownership numbers are absolute, not percentages. Tantalizingly close, but no cigar.

Hi there spydertrader. Man, I go away for a coupla months and y'all are using different screening tools (no more stocktables.com)! I have a basic question about the Hershey culling criteria (price>10 and <50, volume>200,000, EPS > 0, 25%+ institutional ownership, etc.). Is the purpose of...