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Well Magic, perhaps you should provide the community of ET here a little background information on yourself since you appear to be very convicted in your few posts here so far. Share with the group what qualifies you to join a message board and within a few posts start to degrade the posts...

Interesting statement... how about some explanation? I suppose all investments are gambling really - you are betting that the market is going up and/or down, hopefully with the odds in your favor. That can be applied to stocks, futures, forex, options, mutual funds, etc. It doesn't matter if...

tc - since the trial is a 10 day trial and the contest is all month, it may be hard to participate in the contest. That's assuming they would even consider a trial person eligible.

Geoff - what I meant was that if YOUR calls lose and the person follows those calls 100%, there is no $ back guarantee against THOSE losses. So, you can follow the calls exactly (or close to) and if the end result is a loss to your account, you can get your monthly fee back and be entered into...

Since I initially asked about some sort of backup to the claims that most traders fail, this is better than nothing! It really would be interesting to see a large sample of accounts/traders to be done over a significant period of time... hmmm... the wheels are turning...

Mini - your definition of manipulation is not that of reason. You simply see markets moving and you are not participating; therefore it must be 'manipulated' or rigged against you. B/c your methodology did not produce a reason to enter a trade, you are now mad and come here daily posting these...

Good points Neet. Mini posting a new thread daily about how bad the markets are simply shows a trader's frustration when the perma-bull strategy doesn't always work.

mini - you have become one bitter trader recently, which is a recipe for disaster. The markets are not 'manipulated' against you or anyone else here. You do not trade enough size to even get on anyone's radar screen. Stop bitching and either learn to trade these markets or take your money...

My bad, I read the posts wrong. Sorry about that.

Like someone else mentioned, a Verizon wireless card for a laptop is a simple and easy back-up.

+'s: + You get a 'feel' for your markets quicker + The more time in the field, the shorter the learning curve + You act like a business owner -'s: - Trading full time requires much more than the 'standard' 40 hr work week - If you don't make it, a lot of time is gone

Giles - sorry, but if you are saying that a $217/month expense is a reason to have another job in addition to your trading hobby, that would imply that you are not treating trading like a business.

I agree ... if getting health insurance is the reason for getting another job, then trading is more or less a hobby for you.

There's a money back guarantee on the cost of the trading room that month, not the actual loss incurred by the subscriber, correct? Is someone lost their shirt, not sure how much a 200 dollar credit will help, but I suppose it's better than nothing. Just wanted to clarify that money back...

cash - as others have said, watch those auctions and see where the actual closing price is. Some sellers simply take the risk and start the auction at a penny and then see where it goes. To put it in perspective - I sold two Nintendo Gamecubes on Ebay with a bunch of games, controllers and...

FUTURES TRADING: No problems with Mirus using the Dorman Direct (T4) trading platform. TradeStation charting was fine as well.

Try this thread if you must have XTrader: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62730&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

Not true at all. Very possible to daytrade and make some very nice profits as well!

whit - you and I are on the same page here, great job explaining!

You cannot call raising a child a monetary 'investment'. Of course you are losing money each and every day raising a kid(s)!! The term 'investment' is so casually thown around, I think most people do not even know what an actual investment is.