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I know. In the context of the overheard snippet, "work" meant "employment". The transition to trading is a career change, not retirement. If I come across as one arrogant mo-fo, you're right. :cool:

A snippet of a conversation overheard in the hallway at work: "I figure I'll just have to work until I die." "Yup, that's what our generation has to deal with." I chuckled inwardly, thinking to myself, "Fuck, no! I'll be trading full time in 5 years." I know that getting to the point...

I'm not sure what news sites y'all are reading but I've seen no evidence that the uptick rule has been reinstated.

Ooh, good point. So there's no need to worry for a few months.

Hmmm. Would a giant like TIAA/CREF be affected do you think? The thought of my mom moving in with us is horrifying.

Bring it on baby. The last Black Monday killed me cuz I was a babe in the woods. Now I know what to do and how to do it.

Generally a "gap" is the difference between open and previous close, not the low/high. Strictly speaking there's a gap every day; it's a matter of how big a gap is "interesting".

Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but Chrome would have to fix dinner and give me a foot massage to convince me to switch from Firefox.

Your choice has to do with your prognosis for the underlying. If it's trading sideways, you'd be looking more at a calendar spread or iron condor. If it's uptrending you'd be looking at a put credit spread, downtrending it'd be a call credit spread. Calendar spreads, iron condors and credit...

I have my wheelbarrow all wire-brushed, painted and lubricated.

Your tinyurl link is messed up.

A scalper is gonna tell you that that's all he does and it's the easiest (and only) way to make money. Non-scalpers will tell you to try and follow intraday trends and that scalping is "nuts" and "impossible" The fact is that intraday trend following and scalping can both be profitable...

I'll believe it when I see it. I really want to see 'em rescind the PDT rules. Protecting peeps from shady business practice is one thing, but what's the gubment doin protecting peeps from themselves? Stupid.

He'll need a shrink after getting ripped a new one by those merciless bastards over there. Oh, that's right we have merciless bastards here too.:cool:

Every time I see Paulson's name I think of the movie "Fight Club" "His name is Robert Paulson"

Could be it's not a trojan. If it's a WinXP system, it could be just getting "tired". i.e. disk too full, disk heavily fragmented, registry full of crap. This takes years to show itself. The easiest fix for tiredness is a clean re-install as long as you don't have too many apps to...

You probably need at least 2 kinds of systems: a trend following system and a mean reversion system. At least you'd be covered for the 2 main market conditions: trending and chop.

If the 89 in your name is the last 2 digits of your birth year, then that explains a lot.

You weren't specific about the nature of your problems. Was it personal or a string of losses in the market? As you pointed out, if you stop trading how do you know when it's safe to start again? I recall reading somewhere (one of the Market Wizards books, maybe?) that you trade smaller...

Yup, I'm getting a good data stream from all their servers.