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    My Christmas confessional on youtube of what its like to be a real trader

    This brings up a serious question I want to propose... Considering trading is almost all psychological, has anyone every experimented trading in different psychological states? More specifically, does anyone get high while they're trading? haha it's funny but I'm actually being very...
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    Im seeing some crazy stuff today.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA Raskolnikov that was hilarious wern't you the one backin me up on the candlestick thread?
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    how to get around the pattern day trading rule

    TRADE FUTURES, THERE SO MUCH MORE EFFECIENT
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    The Perpetuated Fraud of Candle Charting

    IMHO If you do not believe that cadle charts are usefull than you do not believe that price action is usefull, they are one in the same. As I said before, a candle is a visual representation of raw (not derived data) of an event that ACTUALLY OCCURED. It can not be said that candles have no...
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    Automated Trading Answers

    I am aware of automated trading system and have an extremely basic understanding of them. I've always been curious (I'm sure this is a stupid question) is the main idea of a black box system to backtest indicator combinations and them trade them off those rules in the future (i.e. go long...
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    The Perpetuated Fraud of Candle Charting

    First Off... I'll be the first one to say I don't know shit about trading, I'm not saying I'm right nor am I attacking anyone else on this thread Preface aside... IMHO I believe this is a silly argument. To say that candlestick's don't "work" or are "worthless" is an illogical...
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    Compare Last Years Data

    Hey dude, TOS is the shit, good choice... As far as comparisons heres what you do... 1. Go to the chart and at the top left click "Add studies" 2. Go to the bottom of the drop down box and go to "compare to" 3. A pre-populated box will show up with normally used symbols like the major...
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    Should I stay with TOS , or go to IB

    I personally love TOS, don't know too much about their margin rules but I love TOS and i'm never switching. They're comming out with 2 huge updates in the next month. This week their having a big release with an imbedded robotic trading engine for backtesting and blackbox trading, than later in...
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    e-mini question

    I am certainly no expert, but to agree with what was said previously, I believe the only difference in price between a futures contract and the cash market is strictly carry costs, for index futures this is based of the 3-month T-Bill and the number of dividend periods. Now obviosly futures...
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    sector weightings for index futures

    For the SNP you can just go to Standard and Poors.com and it has the breakdowns of all their index's by sector
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    scooby, what does pair trading a basket mean? basket of currencies? currency pair? is that a form of arbitrage perhaps? Im just curious and no NOTHING about forex trading if thats even what your talking about
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    NYSE, a genious once told me theres a thin line between madness and genious...or was he mad? I will restate... WTF just happened? lol
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    haha I don't know how its possible but I'm more confused now than I was, what the hell just happened in the last few pages since Hershey's posts? lol
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    ya i have a bad habit of trying to leech as much information from sources I see as valuable as I can for 0 cost, my apologies...as you will see in my reply to you NYSE :) although you guys are probably the assholes taking all the money outa my account so you owe me goddamn-it! :)
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    ah, RN can you do me a favor and give me some input on my previous posts and help me make sense of all this and tell me if i have the right idea or if im just an complete idiot
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    whos the novice?
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    thanks for the milktruck, you summarized my incoherent ramble very well, precisely what I am trying to understand
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    one last thing NYSE, depending on your response are there any specific exercises or books I can do or read to really learn how the market works? What specific actions can I take to be the .00001%?
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    hahaha I F*ing love this thread guys, truly a treasure, I notice when watching CNBC yesterday I already had a completely different mindset and almost felt like a different person while tuning in, instead of viewing myself as a student in a class room gathering useful information to trade on I...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    But NYSE I Want the answer now!!!!!! I want to swim in a giant river of chocolate and scoope cream from flowers! Tell me if I'm right damnitt, where's the golden tickect you crazy man! :cool:
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