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I like it as well, as I short into strength and not weakness. But really a very stupid rule when you consider it. God help a stock the next morning if it has tanked 10% the day before. There could be massive shorts hitting the wires and slamming it down another 10% at the open. Just...

Someone hacked my MSN Hotmail address book and used it for a spam mailing. Wondering if this has happened to anyone else recently?

If you'd ever driven a 911 Turbo on any roads other than an interstate freeway you'd know how wrong that statement is.

IMO, you're approaching this bassackwards. You're making a very typical newbie mistake of getting yourself wrapped up in indicators, thinking that they'll take you to the promised land. But it won't happen. Rather, you should start with the basic concept and logic of how and what you're...

LOL. Name a strategy a trader can select that will make money in ALL market conditions.

And short term: Expectation of valuation. The difference between short-lived expectation (which is emotional) and long-term valuation (which is factual), is the cause of inefficiencies in the market.

Don't chase price.

Correct. And if Amtrack's service in the Northeast corridor (which is a good service), can't show a profit, then why bother putting billions into other parts of the country? Once again...and again...and again...a waste of our taxes. The money would be much better spent expanding and...

Another excellent column by David Brooks in the NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26brooks.html?hp In which he includes the following: Hamilton championed capital markets and Lincoln championed banks, not because they loved traders and bankers. They did it because they...

Trade it for 2 years then you may get some interest with audited results. Short of that, backtested results are worthless. Good luck.

InvestorRT at www.linnsoft.com does an excellent job of scanning watch lists in realtime via what they call QuotePages. If you have an IB account, the data feed is free, and I/RT has a monthly plan.

No matter how much your job sucks, you are fortunate at present to have a regular income, because so many don't. Keep your job until the economy turns around. Then take your shot at freedom so if it doesn't work out you can get back on the train. I've owned a company, worked within a...

From that same page, here is the summary of the Swedish experiment. Note the final conclusion, which makes perfect sense. The gaping hole in an FFT proposal is that a tax will put a severe damper on the very activity from which the tax proposes to create income. And further, the taxes...

Yes. Buy F. A lot! Thank you. :p

Back to the gutter where you came from. Welcome to my ignore list. A nice feature of E.T.

Congratulations. You've managed to break not just one, but four rules at once for successfully trading shorts. 1. NEVER SHORT A DULL MARKET. This old adage holds a lot of truth. And there is seldom a duller market than during the holidays. 2. NEVER DOUBLE DOWN. Unless you have a...

I agree, having traded both for a number of years. If you are making money in equities, stay there. If you aren't, trading index futures is not going to help you become instantly profitable. You'll find that the leverage cuts both ways, and if you have bad habits in trading equities they...

A Sharpe Ratio of 1.9 with their self-reported profits of only one losing trade over 7 years indicates some periods of very severe drawdown. Which is why they don't report drawdown. Because if they did, it would scare the hell out of someone. There is a very good reason why any of these...

Here again, you're falling into a very common trap. It's survivorship bias. The mistake is cherry-picking services and/or funds that have shown success during a certain time period, and assuming this is somehow indicative of how you - or anyone - will perform in the future. Hope springs...

Experience. If you had any, you'd know that you are confusing brains with a bull market because you've been placing directional bets. I wish I had a dollar for every trader I've seen post comments over the years about their great income option strategies, because they happen to catch a...