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You need one screen to watch for set ups and another three to keep an eye on all the things that can f*ck you. Seriously.

Take a look at Metastock Quotecenter. $135/month basic. I cancelled eSignal as I refuse to pay those kind of prices for corrupt data and "it's your ISP" tactics.

You can read stuff written in the 1920's explaining how back in the 1880's they were saying it's different this time. The reasons 'why it is different this time' thesis trotted out by Goldman in the late '90's was trotted out in the 20's, right down to the arguments about inventory control etc.

Look, this is just another provocative bogus thread to get clicks to show advertisers. They had a thread called 'technical analysis doesn't work' and it just ran and ran - loads of hits, so they tried another of the same genre.

In addition to considerations as to whether you actually have an edge, Consider the following: Daytrading is not the place to start. You have to know how markets work as you woin't have time to analyse realtime. Day trading is about conditioned reflexes. By the time you have analysed you...

As I've said before it's about time these tenured professors had their jobs shipped to India and China where I am sure they have Economists who can come out with just the same kind of obtuse rubbish for a fraction of the cost - i.e. you can get somebody just as incompetent for a fraction of the...

Blow them out now, and the bonus pool is divided among fewer people. .................or used to improve earnings/cost:income ratio, but yes that is what they will do. If they do, it is confirmation that Wall St knows this is not the small temporary problem that they, Bush , Paulson...

I assumed he was continuing using VCR's as they are a cheap heating system.

For my style I found it was most useful as a volume/ market profile type tool - unfortunately only having one day available was a big handicap as you could not see yesterday and before value area etc. I never found the market delta itself and the footprint all that useful for my style. I did...

People buying in anticipation of the actual buying - a bit like the way people used to buy the swissie ahead of those buying the Swissie ahead of those buying the Swissie because USSR said something about tanks , West, and butter mountains.

Never confuse leverage with brains.

With 10,000 hedgefund and 10,000 stocks it is just as difficult to pick the right fund as it is the right stock - but at least the stock will let you buy it without asking questions about your house in the Hamptons etc.

My guess would be people buying to arbitrage A shares Vs HK H shares vs Long institutions using the liquidity to get out ahead of their perception of US tanking over next few weeks/months taking global markets down with it.

Pied piper pipes the futures, small brown furry chappies trading the index warrants (25% of cash volume) follow, then the cat brings down its paw on those who did not get back to their burrow quick enough..

The fallout from the last UK property collapse was brutal and devastated the whole economy. It was like the ice age came in. Things just stopped. Having been through (debt free) that I have total disgust and contempt for commercial bankers having seen how they behaved. A large part of their...

Is that tan from frequent travel to the BVI and Cayman?

Shades of ENRON etc.

It's expensive and the croupiers aren't even pretty.

Good point about the discount rate vs Fed funds rate. Discount rate is for distressed financial institutions and its use is an admission of distress.

Always the way.