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why not retire? thats enough to live off of interest comfortably for the rest of your life without touching the principal.

i have incurred significant medical expenses over the last week with more to come in the following weeks. I may be out of trading for a while. I'll bump this thread when I'm back. Wish me luck.

Martingaling is doubling each successive bet (trade) in order to win back all bet units +1 on the next winning spin. By definiton, Martingaling doesn't work if you don't double each successive lot size. So what I said was correct. If you are truly anti-martingaling, your huge winner will be...

I thought we were talking about people with under $25k in their account in this thread.

PDT rule is annoying but whatever. Wash sale rule is annoying and is the reason i opened a futures account. Trading SPY multiple times a day... make a loss... now you cant trade it for 30 days without making your taxes annoying to do. F that. Actually, having to list multiple round...

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97% winning trades! Damn!!!! Have your real life results matched those backtested results?

ifl

i'll bump this thread back in the future. i've been sick recently and havent done much studying. see you guys soon hopefully (posted from my phone)

same here. btw i use Scottrade for swing/long term trades and have never had any issues. I've made a few day trades for fun and got bad fills if i didn't use limit orders.

Yes, but let me wait until this weekend when im back at a computer. i'm browsing from my phone now and i dont want to type too much on this samsung blacjack keyboard. it's small and makes my thumbs hurt.

if i'm going short, i need to wait until i see that price has resumed its downtrend after a pullback. otherwise i don't know if its reversing or continuing the downtrend.

I don't know when point 5 has happened (in a downtrend) until price continues to move down from it. I just happened to pick the bottom which ended up being point 6. If price continued to go down after i entered, then it would have looked like i entered right after point 5 correctly. Im...

if im talking to engineers about engineering stuff, or to programmers about computer stuff, yes. people on ET, no. especially when you dissect what they say and it means nothing. but those people are on my ignore list already anyway so i dont really care anymore :D

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In hindsight it was point 6. But at the time I wanted to make sure the downtrend was continuing, and I couldn't tell if the retracement (from point 4 to point 5) was done until it went down from point 5 a bit. I hope I explained that well. I feel like in order to enter at point 3 or point...

edit - n/m I misread the comment on the chart.

thanks. i'll look at your chart when i get to a computer. Im browsing from my phone now and can't see the detail in your chart on my little screen. Happy Holidays to everyone following this thread :D

What makes you say its oversold? Too many downwaves? What signal did the candle before mine give that would have had you short there? (posting from my phone sorry if i missed something)

Unfortunately that is beyond my automated backtesting capabilities at this point.