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Rule #1 Drawing up a list of trading rules, like this, will likely not help you become a profitable trader Rule#2 A trader finding a profitable backtest will likely find it does not work in the real market Rule#3 You need 1+ outperformance edges (very rare) and solid money management...

Some people have nerve. The Lehman leadership helped sink the bank, and this one filing a claim for $233 million. Hope his next job is flipping burgers for mimimum wage... Lehman's ex-president files claim for $233m Joseph Gregory, second-in-command to former chief executive Dick Fuld...

What they lose will likely be made up by liquor and beer commercials. They love controversy.

http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=174191 UrmaBlume. When they give lengthy posts and charts about the market and having a certain unique intuition, and say "WE have developed an indicator that yadayada..." ...then a marketing pitch won't be far behind...

Quote from intradaybill: Profit factor cannot translate to actual profits. It tells nothing about profitability. Profit factor already includes all trades. Profit Factor is the sum of all profits divided by the sum of all losses. It tells you everything about the edge. How much your...

ES is traded electronically. The large version (pit) depends on the electronic version

Quote from Vista: I'm only basing this on my own experience, not statistics. And that is the sign of someone who is uneducated. Someone with brains understands that without statistical significance, an opinion is like a butt. Everyone has one, and everyone thinks that somehow, their...

disagree. Profit Factor is an excellent measure of an edge. Max drawdown and Sharpe/Sortino is also useful.

Given the extremely high failure rate of traders, are you really sure you want to lose the money of your friends and family? The reality is, you are probably WAY overestimating your money management, trading and financial skills. You are asking people who probably don't much understand what...

there have been a number of studies based on gender, age, attractiveness, race, wealth and other things showing definite preference bias in legal justice, hiring, pay and other things. These things seem to come out every month. However, it is critical that they adjust for known factors. One...

I think that someone trying to redirect traffic or form groups outside ET would border on violating Terms of Service http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=156989 (read cashmoney's original post) Step 2 is, "and now, here is our paid format"

and men are better informed? Seriously??? At the college level, females now outnumber males. Some universities have greater than a 57% female to 43% male ratio. And we are not talking historically female colleges, but state and private universities.

BlackGuard is an alias of an existing ET user. According to ET Terms of Service, I think this is supposed to be naughty naughty... :D

nothing funnier than someone who condems another based on spelling, and errors in their retort :D

It is a sad thing, when someone continuously quotes their own book, as if it has any relevance or value. Most knowledgeable people understand that footnotes refer to the work of OTHERS.

No, it is you who don't understand. I apparently have to repeat the OP: Just in case you wondered why some people need to sell books instead of trade. Read post #3 (Covell's response) - does grasp basic english or simple trading principles...

81pt80 <--- OK, this guy has gone from "asking a question" to becoming a spammer, People are already "requesting more info."

Without China and other $5 a day worker countries that also don't worry about environmental/worker protection or other issues, we might actually have a lot more jobs My preference is that, all medical, worker's comp, environmental and other non-salary costs are removed from American...

Yes, I recommend not blindly following TA indicators. Most to almost all newer traders follow TA and it is believed 90-95% of traders lose (and most of the 5-10% are more likely breakeven, short term profitable, small profits, etc.). IF TA were that easy, every hedge fund, investment bank...