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What is the Most Important Thing in Trading? Crush enemies, see dem driven before you, hear de lamentations of der vimmin. On a serious note, structuring things so that your weaknesses can't get to you, this includes multiple things like low risk entries, having multiple small positions...

It's called a 'RAMP"

So what happened to Abbay Joseph Schmooozems compelling valuations? I thought we were supposed to fill our boots? Translation of the above: We, and our clients big enough to matter, have now finally unwound our longs (thanks to Bail 'em Ben) and have been able to get the bulk of our shorts on.

According to Bush, Paulson and Bernanke the sub prime issue was "contained", yet now we have a 50BP cut due to the wider economic ramifications of this. It begs the question why nobody acted earlier - even before the stock prices started signalling problems the signs were there for someone who...

Discounted value of the casflows accruing to the investor. Correct in theory, near meaningless in practice. NB P/E is a shorthand of this.

Soup kitchen operators.

50BP is an admission of disaster. 25BP would have appeased nearly all constituents and by actually cutting, Bernanke could have avoided being branded as a monster who threw childen out onto the street. 50BP tells me it is as bad as everybody thinks it is and FAR worse than the gummint and its...

Appreciate the further extension of IB's product range.

Load up on things like animal traps, .22 ammo, salt, medicines, pvc sheeting, 'coonskin hats etc

Indicators can be useful for scanning - they can be a shorthand for something that would be difficult to program as purely price and volume, they can also be a strilking visual that can be picked up out of the corner of your eye e.g CMF divergence as a proxy for a short covering rally exhausting.

Read the stuff written pre computer. Indicators are just marketing tools for book vendors and data vendors (IMHO)

Apparently there is an XP SP3 due out soon. be sure to get your copy to tide you over the 5 years or so before Vista has had all the bugs ironed out, PC's have the power to run it, and all the dll and driver issues have been solved.

King clearly did it to stave off a bank run (as did Bernanke, but he waited until option expiry), once there is one suddely there are many. Can't have that in a fractional reserve banking system. There is a hell of a difference between lending at a penalty rate against good collateral as in...

The link between fundamentals and price action is often too tenuous in the short term for trading with FX or Commodities type leverage. Even with stocks, if you invest without looking at the price action for confirmation it can be just too long and too meandering. Investing solely on...

Try Metastock Quotecenter. Has DDE and apparently option symbols are not counted in the 500 or 1000 limits. This is a real platform not a retail marketing driven toy If you have a third party eSignal app that you like and are just hanging on with this company to use that App it may (MAY-check...

If you want to get rich operate a mundane business type that is already proven to be viable. That is what most rich people do. The inventors, entrepreneurs, mavericks and visionaries that make great business magazine copy are not the norm and probably occurr with the same frequency as...

"I have made millions in this market since 2003" So has everyone else on ET. I seem to be the only one that hasn't.

I have to respectfully partially disagree. There is undoubtedly a large component of overcoming personal traits, weaknesses, impulses etc but the bottom line is that the Reticular activating system [crocodile level part of the brain] overides the cerebral cortex, the cerebral cortex does not...

Translation: we and all the other IB's are going to pull every trick and Shennanigan in the known accounting world to make everything look as if it is nowhere as bad as it really is. Then, when the suckers come in and buy on this good news aided and abetted by liberal use of the word "overblown"...

US CEO's are so so naive. Soon you will see a company called 'Great Wall Processors" or some such emerging, just as Huewei telecom emerged soon after Motorola, Nokia and Ericcson started manufacturing switches there (because of a CPC directive that only those who manufactured in China could...