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Maybe all those letters and emails I wrote were worthwhile after all. Now to get serious about leearning to trade the e-minis.

Hitman, you're 22 years old. You know almost nothing about life and even less about women because you are 22 years old. Forget about the princess for a while and find out more about both. I can't think of one person I have known know who married his childhood sweetheart and didn't end up...

I trade a lot of small caps (swingtrading, not daytrading). I have also been making a conscious effort to up my size, as I have been underperforming due to not having my account sufficiently employed. This has caused me real problems with slippage when I want to get out. It isn't easy to get...

Nor can you daytrade it through a US broker that has the trading platform apporpriate to the task. To attempt to daytrade through a conventional Canadian discount broker is a recipe for disaster.

3 months, $1800 on a $15,000 account was my initial drawdown, mainly due to one overnight hit during the second week bigger than anything I have taken since. Recovered this drawdown within 3 months and been net positive ever since. However, it was 7 months before I started to make consistant...

Don't get too excited Candle. I got on Ms Lo's mailing list and every morning I would get an URL sent to me for her market analysis. Just when I got down to the interesting bits it would then tell me that a subscription was required to read the rest. This lady is a real teaser and might be a...

I have sat in on a couple of her weekend tutorials and she certainly knows what she is talking about. However, I haven't seen her trade. One thing going for her is that she doesn't see the need to pop up here hyping her site, unlike some others.

The tax collectors in the country where you live. In Canada that would be the CCRA, as you are taxable on your worldwide income as a resident of Canada. That is, unless you are planning to do something illegal, which I wouldn't recommend. I am just commenting on ways to avoid the problem of...

Have you considered setting up a trading company in a tax haven country? Then you have only one bunch of tax collectors to deal with. Don't know the pros and cons myself, just an idea.

I have had another communication with the OSC regarding the hold-up with IB's registration. They again refused to tell me whether there is even an application from IB. Furthermore they also refused to tell me the legal or administrative reason for refusing to tell me whether there is an...

Don, regarding your post of the market-topography link, what is the minimum correlation coefficient that you would expect for a pair to be tradable?

So, what are you doing about it?

I hold ovenight frequently as I swingtrade. I try very hard to avoid holding when earnings are to be announced, unless it is a very low P/E stock. Check more than one source of earnings calanders. They are not all complete. I have been hit by pre-announcements, some good and some bad, and don't...

Excuse me for saying so, but I find this to be a rather trite observation. It may make a lot of sense for a newcomer with a small account, but once your account gets to a significant size (I trade high five figures) it has real limitations. To trade small position sizes with a significant...

Everyone here should make a submission supporting the BCSC proposals regarding foreign brokers, with a copy to their own provincial regulator if they don't live in BC. My submission has already gone to the BCSC and the OSC. Get off your butts and do it guys, if you want to play on an equal...

I didn't, it was all those other idiots.

I still have trouble matching the times to the eastern time zone. What stop-setting principles do you use that allowed you to ride out the rather large mid-day retracements in TXN, AMAT and KLAC?

It is my understanding that Swifttrade had problems with the OSC because they were using SouthWest Securities in Texas as their clearing broker. However, it obviously didn't prevent them registering here. I note that they are now using Penson Financial Services to clear their trades. I don't...

How did you guys get the OSC to respond? In previous correspondence with me they refused to confirm or deny whether there is even an application. My latest email on the subject, with copies to the Ontario Finance minister and two financial journalists, which I sent Feb 19, has so far been...

Last time I looked, which was a few months ago, the HLDRs had very big spreads, but I was looking at HHH and IIH