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    Taking $5K to $250K by year end

    <i>"Jeez, you're really giving the nay-sayers a carte-blanche with this one ... there's only one reason you would make this call ... "</i> One good reason I can think of being it's impossible to be profitable every day. Too many traders fixate on every single day as if it's a critical event...
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    Running a hedge fund is tougher than you think

    <i>"My ES methods are good up to 2000 contracts per trade."</i> Sometimes. If you try to fill 2k ES contracts on every trade, some will have 0 to -1 tick slippage while other times the entire order will spread across a 4-5 tick range from intended fill. Using strict limit orders will...
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    Free Mentoring

    <i>"Good Luck to you all, do not bother reply to my post because I won't waste any more time on this. I only hope that you understand what I am trying to tell you."</i> Good luck to you, too. Truth is, I've met you thru the years about several hundred times already. No, not you...
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    Free Mentoring

    <i>"Anyway, I'm going to be looking for a format to present the program in, and hopefully find a sponsor for it as well. If I don't find a sponsor we will figure something out."</i> HotComm is what you need. There isn't even a distant second when it comes to functions and customer service...
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    "Scaling out" is inferior behavior

    <i>"Scale out like crazy, Scale out wisely at certain points or Hold Until the Cows come home... "</i> On a sideline note, there is another approach to this equation. Scaling into trades and exiting any way seen fit (my preference being all-out) accomplishes the same objective with less...
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    Jobs number leaked ES futures up.45%

    <i>"Nice trade!"</i> lol
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    <i>"Obviously by always being on the right side of the market, ..."</i> Jack, much as I respect all your effort thru the years, at least two of us here know that the word "always" above means at best "mostly" in real life. We wouldn't want to raise the bar of expectations too high for...
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    Everyone makes money in ET

    <i>"Quote from Lucrum: I can't juggle chainsaws while blind folded sitting a unicycle either "</i> I've never thought to try, but two of my redneck friends, Lefty and Stumpy both gave it their best shot.
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    Taking $5K to $250K by year end

    <i>"ON surface, 5k to 250k is a massive return! But don't forget the use of leverage. He is actually using the 5k to control ~65-130k notional value of asset. Even creating 250k out of 130k is not an easy feat."</i> If 5k capital to leverage = 130k notional, then 250k capital = 6,500,000...
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    <i>"HAI GUISE, can you tell me of an indicator that gives no false signals."</i> Everything on a chart gives "false" signals from time to time... everything lags the next price tick to come. That's what stop-loss orders guard against. Of all tech-analysis tools, price movement is hands...
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    Where Are The ET Inflation Bulls???

    <i>"Oh the inflation! Oh boy oh boy!"</i> I stopped to gas up the truck this morning on my way to our local trout stream. With oil collapsing in the futures market, retail gas was naturally $1.49 per gallon, high-test while diesel is back to 99c where it should be. Go fill your gas &...
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    Amp Futures or Mirus

    <i>"I am still online....you were quick to reply back with useless talk....someone asked this question, so I tried to give my experience..."</i> Honestly now, you don't mean to imply that the only reason, the sole reason you are successful while others in your "group" failed is due to the...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"The organic beekeepers are reporting zero Colony Collapse Disorder."</i> True... we are part of that organic group and haven't suffered any CCD at all. Instead, our bees are dying from things that the medical treatments help abate. Many organic beekeepers suffered 100% colony losses this...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"Fascinating article I didn't know there was such a large business in a renta-bee-pollinations."</i> Beekeeping is one of those myriad little niche industries no one ever thinks about. The big commercial beekeepers have 2,000 to 10,000 hive colonies. Each hive has 20,000 to 60,000 bees in...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"Well said austin, you obviously KNOW your stuff."</i> In all honesty, my knowledge base is narrow in scope but deep in my topics of interest. There are a lot of guys with far-wider horizons of general knowledge here than me, for sure. From late-1999 until recently my life has been...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"austin, sounds like your bees defenses are low, is there something you can give them that will strengthen them,beet juice,o.j. ? what does your bee doctor say?"</i> This year our bees mostly died from sudden influx of a new nosema disorder... it causes dysentary and fatal dehydration in...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"no disrespect to the OP,but nail in the coffin is another example of how we are gaining momentum to the gloom and doom theory and that is a telltale sign of a botttom, at least we're close"</i> Bottom of what? The existing reality of a crisis in the food supply has zero to do with where...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"Yawn. ZZZzzzzzz............"</i> agreed... you bore the s(tuff) out of us, too :cool:
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    <i>"Congress bails out greedy companies and has tons of money for bullets BUT the American people are going to starve."</i> From the dawn of man until roughly 100 years ago, U.S. people were producers of their own food or just one step removed from that process. Since that period until now...
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    Pesticides-nail to US economy coffin

    I've kept honey bees for two years now after studying them for much of my life. Went into the winter with 24 hives, right now 4 remain alive. Veteran beekeepers here in NY have suffered losses from 50% to 90%... one commercial guy similar to Hackenberg's size lost 90% of his hives and the family...
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