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I question the veracity of such a statement. Surely someone with 5 years of experience would know the countless ways through which you can acquire almost *all* Microsoft software without paying retail? Tell me you didn't pay retail? I haven't paid for anything Microsoft since I started my...

Sorry, I don't have the luxury of bigotry. I am fluent in everything between assembly (although not to the degree I was many years ago) and .NET, and that diversity allows me to delivery what's needed by my clients. Investing in a career isn't all that unlike the markets; I have to choose to...

The actual title is The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. It's been called K&R by those in the C development community for many years, and it's widely regarded as one of the better texts on C. That said, it's a little terse for a lot of people, and I think C Primer...

Sorry, over the years I've learned that it really does little good to argue with those who regurgitate nonsense. I've wasted too much time pointing out the fallaciousness in the arguments. I'll go ahead and do the same to yours... Can't argue there, but as always, limiting your criteria...

Once again words from someone who clearly hasn't any actual experience. I'll never understand why those who are ignorant tend to speak the loudest. To be ignorant is one thing, but to be ignorant of your ignorance is another thing entirely.

You simply must ignore the nonsense from nononsense. His diatribe is typical of those found on Slashdot that have more ferver for creating arguments than actual work. It's further obvious that you use the hopelessly trite M$ to represent their name. Grow up. If you want to develop any...

So, if I might offer another way of stating the above... He buys on support levels in upward trend channels. The above could of course be tested in any number of ways, but according to your friend's testament he looks for 20-day and 50-day MA convergence followed by what I would hope...

Symbol: BMHC Instrument: Equity Entry: Short 78.39 Rationale: BMHC has developed a channel since around November with a recent swing from resistance at about $82 in mid-December. Resistance was lowered to about $80, and so after a downday followed by an increase in selling pressure I...

One can see that those you have listed do indeed represent a fair degree of bearishness/oversold conditions, but what are you using to determine the potential for a reversal? FRNT, for example, has the following against it: 1) 7 down days on increased volume each day 2) Recently crossed...

Well, overall not a bad day. SGTL kept holding intraday resistance at 13.78, but there was enough pressure to break out of the pattern and close up 4.34% for the day. Following are my current short-term holdings and their respective P/L. All positions are long unless noted otherwise...

Symbol: ICO Instrument: Options Exit: January 10 Calls Rationale: Although probably too early to tell, I'm not confident in this stock's ability to recover, so I decided to exit after a hint of downside. It's down 1.18% at the time of this writing, so as it's all said and done I saw...

Symbol: SGTL Instrument: Options Entry: February 15 Calls Rationale: I've made a fair amount of money playing this stock in the past and while it does appear that the prevailing primary trend is down there is a secondary trend that started after the drop in December. Over the past...

Symbol: NUS Instrument: Options Entry: January 20 Calls Rationale: Something of a speculative play, I like the fundamentals of the company for the most part, and it's been trending very slightly since November. There was heavy selling yesterday (relative to previous days), but 50-day...

Symbol: RES Instrument: Equity Entry: Long 27.71 (on 1/9/2005) Rationale: I've been following RES for a while and have made some successful plays in the past. I saw it develop an intermediate trend starting mid October, and over a period of a few months it developed a nice channel...

Symbol: ICO Instrument: Options Entry: January 10 Calls Rationale: I was on the short end of this stock for quite a while and managed to accumulate some profit. I had this one on my watch list and happened to notice the rally on 1/9/05. A little look at L2 suggested enough pressure...

I am listing this past pick simply because it presented a learning opportunity. Symbol: AA Instrument: Equity Entry: Long 28.46 (on 12/20/05) Rationale: I found what appeared to be a strong intermediate trend that started around October of 2005, and I particularly liked that the...

I keep a lot of notes for myself and a few others, and there's really no better resource than ET to document these musings for potential criticisms, positive or negative. I'm hoping that others will derive value from my quest and that those knowledgeable will be candid in their replies...

Thanks much! Admittedly I am hoping/looking for a more mechanical stop point, but I agree with what you're saying. The intraday action for RES didn't offer much of a consolidation; it just dropped and rebounded soon after.

I'm long CHK as well and got in again (I was long before the October drawdown) ~$28. I still like RES and will likely consider reentry, but it's intensely frustrating to be stopped out like that only to see it rebound right after; live and learn.

Just wanted to hear some thoughts others might have on this topic. I generally set my stops according to a few variables: ATR over the period of the prevailing trend, intermediate or primary; the support level in the channel that has developed (if there isn't one I'm likely not entering...