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This is the experience of almost all traders. It sounds like your worst problem is you have no serious edge AND you do not understand money management well. You need both, in spades, or you are the poster child for most traders...

Suppose you turn the 50K into $5K over a period of a year? What if you go under and owe money to the brokerage on leverage trades (as you will not have much chance to "double" the money unless done so.) In other words, trading family money is a really bad idea, and not really fair to them...

it might be interesting reading, but it will not turn you into a successful trader.

If a vendor is not making it easy to verify his claims, then the odds are near 100% you will lose whatever you give him. He can offer: verifiable broker statements, or audited results (there are at least a dozen sites and brokers who will track results in real time). Or can have a track...

nothing like the sound, unshakable proof in the form of an anonymous, unsubstantiated, opinionated retort.

Mandibles was added to my ignore list several weeks ago. He wandered between saying things that sometimes make sense, and sometimes showing utter contempt for wisdom. A final batch of cluelessness tipped his balance. I added "RealTimeTrader" or whatever it is to the ignore list today. I...

You could replace the system name with a variable, and this would apply to most systems offered for sale...

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here are some nice semi automatic... But they may not guarantee much of a future...

Book Reviews, agree But you should realize that the chances of becoming a profitable commodities trader mainly from books is only a little better than your chance of surviving on the Sun for more than 3 minutes, while only wearing Nike's...

Proprietary, as in: Etymology: Middle English propietarie, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin propietarius, from Late Latin, adjective Date: 15th century 1 : one that possesses, owns, or holds exclusive right to something... Since it will be my ideas based on 20 years of equities/futures...

Sorry, but trading strategies are a dime a dozen. Ones that work are generally not going to be given away, as hundreds of other trader wannabes keep asking this question You learn to trade, or you give away your money, those are the two basic choices...

Depends on your 20-20 Hindsight...

I have yet to read one of your posts that presented you in a remotely positive cognitive light

There are too many fakes on ET to consider this as an established fact...

There is and was no reason to have read this or any of the other 1,000s of letters these "gurus" put out. There are a lot better uses of people's time than trolling around the web seeking what bloggers and vendors and brokers and financial-news channels and information providers and everyone...

I suspect the eastern half (following reunification) still has a lot of aspects like this...

I can see this making its way to Ebay... There are better ways to buy gold than actually owning it. Buying gold already has a relatively high cost for the average buyer Gold ETFs, gold mining shares, gold held by places such as bullionvault.com, etc. Similar thing happens with a lot of...

He seems a little late to the party for gold. As to the other stuff, mostly just a guess. If it were that simple, then the market would pretty much price in the expectations. The market has a habit of being ahead of almost everyone else. Market timers have a habit of constantly being wrong...

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