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Stop at the close of the previous white bar. Sure be cool if we could have numbers on these. :D

Yes, there is indeed a decent stop-loss/profit target system that does have a nice curve. It just about covers commissions. And the weird thing about it is, that you have to take your profits early, but give your losers a chance to turn around.

With an invite from OldTrader, how can I resist? :D Now, I've got an empty bottle of merlot (that was mighty good, and cheap to boot), and a nearly empty bottle of chardonnay (yeah, I drank the merlot first - we had steak for dinner), and it's way past me bedtime. But, I would most...

Unfortunately, the Random Trader Bias Addin is way to expensive for me. :D Seriously though, I apologize for thinking you might have been referring to the study I did.

Long term, yes. And we're talking years and years, not by Friday. Unless there is some flaw in the reasoning in the initial post. I imagine that since this idea is not widespread (and it's not all that deep, IMO), there must be reasons that this is not well accepted. On the other hand, I...

My exact point would be a question, "Aren't the people who depend on the market to fund their retirement eventually going to lose out?" EDIT: Just got a strange sense of Déjà vu, but I could not find a thread that started like this.

As I see it, there are basically three answers to this concern. The first is that stock prices decline (hugely) until dividends are decent. The second is that earnings rise (hugely) until dividends and company stock purchases are high. The third is that both happen.

I've got a cousin who's gonna be married in a couple months. Let us say for the sake of argument that he is 23, and has 50k to put in his retirement account (of whatever nature), and will never have another dime to put into it. He's a young guy, looking to retire at 65, so he'll be invested...

That is correct (found out in that swell book IB sent me). If you sign the right agreement with your broker (the one that lets you short stock), then your stock can be loaned out, and you lose voting priviledges. But you won't know it :). You see, most broker agreements basically have the...

OldTrader is talking to Random Trader here, and might be referencing a study I did way back at the begining of this thread. So, I thought I'd butt in. :D My study has zero missed trades, and I have every reason to expect a real life implementation of the study to also have nearly zero...

I couldn't DL the doc :(

I heard it was a total fraud, and the owners were reduced to spamming message boards to get new victims. :D :D :D

Yep. Doh! Thanks for letting me know before I went over there. :D

This burner http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?j=1&id=1051806892046&skuId=5403271&type=product will be free after rebate tomorrow at Best Buy. Probably USA only (not even sure if BB is outside the USA). EDIT: As vhehn wisely points out below, this is just the software, not the hardware. :p

So when is Super Ego II: Even More Ego coming out?

I've gotten a sense of posters thinking about the VIX in very short time-frames, and just wanted to make a quick note - the "contrarian" VIX Low Is Bearish (tm) theory is very macro (for lack of a better word). It's more talking about general market direction over the next 6 months than market...

Well, I for one was glad to get the book. Tell IB thanks for me, def.

It's a good read, just that this particular instance of a glaring lack of observation stands out like a lone catholic at a traditional mosque.

Nice "book", I like it. But it has this statement which cannot be true: "We are dependent for nearly half of our light and heat upon the stars. . . " The author(s) claim that the sun gives us about half our light and heat, and the stars the other half. That is ridiculous. When our...

That is correct. MTM is not recommended for folks who strictly trade futures for the very reason trader333 pointed out.