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By the way, regardless of Jesse's demons, he really did have an understanding of the markets. "Reminiscences" is an all-time classic.

...for someone w/ 10,000 posts, you don't have a handle on what it's all about. 50-50?? Even, for the sake of argument, if every trade only had a 50-50 chance of success --- you make money (obviously) when your winners total more than your losers. I'm sure this is posted 100's of times...

Tell us more about your mate. Is he a trader too?:eek:

it sucks you in... you reeeeeeeally want to show people that "you" have the knowledge and insight to divine the true bottom (or top). the hair on the back of your neck stands up, you can't stop smiling to yourself, you do "back of the napkin" calculations on how you'll profit from this, you...

Snarfed?? Now if you said "snarted", I think I would get it. Or of course, "sharted" would also be understood. Hmmm.

Sweet Call! :cool:

I would say the key piece of information you are missing would be market prediction from the sharpest poster on ET: riskfreetrading (of course the predictions are not in real-time... so you will need to take that into consideration).

Reminds me of this old thread (from 2002) !! Fortunately I was not a victim of the sausage-dog today!! http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12159&highlight=short+sausage GreenDog

You know what I find the most annoying about Myminut??? I can sum it up in one word: THEIR By the way, anyone still around from the "old days?" I quit trading full-time in 2002, but still check in here from time to time. Made a lot of money in my 10 years as a trader but ultimately...

Heh, you and me both. I interviewed a guy once who looked at me funny. I reached under the table, grabbed a baseball bat and splattered his brains all over the conference room. Another time, a guy refused to answer my question, "Why are ice creams cones shaped like a cone?" I had my...

Comic books don't count. Aldous Huxley's BNW "is" a classic!

with all due respect, you are in the wrong line of work. you're missing the basic premise of this whole business:confused:

only a rookie would be short here (that doesn't mean you can't take a little off the table on the long side, though).

Speaking of black swan events... you can be sure it wasn't Taleb! -- maybe Nicky Leeson's back in the game??

Some days I spend the entire trading session at one of our satellite offices:

I've been scaling my system back over the past few years. I do like the view now though!

I'm totaly in agreemint with you on you're coment about succesfil poeple not be abel to speling. Noone hear knows nothing about nothing and there such loosers to!

...yes, but you need a grammar checker! You mean: The most successful people I know couldn't spell to save their lives."

I left full-time trading behind about a year ago. My situation is probably a bit different from most here. For starters, I'm probably older (41) than a lot of ET posters -- and capital was never an issue for me. At my peak, I was trading 10,000 to 20,000 shares of the Q's on a frenetic...

No brainer... Hermosa Beach, CA!! :cool: