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Van Damme is, what, 5' 7"? So you are 5' 5"?

A few years ago, Chuckie's followers and system purchasers were going to lynch him. His systems crashed badly. They looked to be nothing more than over-optimized junk. Damn near all of them. Stuck his customers with huge losses. Don't know how they are doing now, but just a FWIW. Good...

Hope you are right, Mr R. I am LONGGGGG and tired of getting beat down (but I did have some long SPX puts that have been bustin' a move...) Good trading to all.

Programming it is no big deal, but as has been mentioned, to do it correctly would take some time. But the bigger problem, is that without a real and defined edge it is very likely to fail to make money. Or it might make some for a while, then...boom... No shortcuts to success. Learn to...

You want winners? You want me to put my Cramer Berkowitz hedge fund hat on and just discuss what my fund is buying today to try to make money tomorrow and the next day and the next? You want my top 10 stocks for who is going to make it in the New World? You know what? I am going to give them to...

Yeah, I heard Rennick has had to cut back to only visiting 6 times a week now... :(

Very important IMHO. Whether you trade automated, or based on signals, or "feel". or whatever you NEED to log those trades. All of them. Date, time, basis, entry, exit, notes, etc. It's just a great way to see what is working best and what needs more attention. Plus it can help greatly...

I rarely daytrade and I'm definitely not struggling, but I just wanted to say thanks to steve46 for his efforts in this thread. It's nice to have some real trading ideas without a lot of crap to wade through. Good trading to all. :cool:

Anybody else lose the market data farm connection a few minutes ago? This happens to me sometimes, but it usually keeps trying and eventually reconnects. It's not doing nuthin' right now. Just pink grid. And if I shutdown and restart TWS, it buggers up my API app. Sux... :mad:

Don't know if poortfolio is a wry spelling or just a typo, but it works in any case! :p

Despite the protestations from Surfey that Vic is a really nice guy and a super-smart and creative market guru, the facts about VN seem to be: 1. He is just another over-leveraged short option gambler. He got nailed TWICE. Doesn't he ever learn? 2. He is a liar. He lied to Baron when...

goddammit...I missed some sleezy porno pics??? :( I mean, uh, yeah...stop posting that stuff...

You log in to TWS, then start QT and it will connect if you have IB as the quote source selected. QT uses the API interface. You need to set the "enable" in TWS. I forget the exact location and name in TWS. Something like "Enable Sockets" under Optiions? Post back if you can't figure it...

Difference between Consensual Sex and Rape? When the check clears...

Some George Carlin stuff: Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny? What...

It may be more sophisticated than a simple "double down until you win" type strategy, and if you handle it like you say, it probably won't blow up in specatular fashion. But I still don't think it will work for very long. Random volatility may be such that it will work for quite a while tho...

Sorry but IMHO this is doomed to failure. Years ago I backtested strategies a lot like that. They always blew up. Even though the mechanisims of trading are not quite like those of gambling, they are close enough. In much the same way a "random" "system" will not work on Roulette, a random...

Coinz/SkalpZ? I think he moved to Nigeria! <img src="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2616/coinz1vn.jpg"/>

Will Rogers never met Jim Cramer.

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