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what is a scalp? If I hold a position for 30 mins. and make .05, or hold for 10 secs. and make .50, are they both scalps?Some days I will make more on a very small percent winners than others.Either way I feel I am scalping.Also, a $5 profit day is small, but never the less a profit.Some may be...

with only 5,000 to work with, over trading should not be a problem.:p :p :p

Why is the U.S. the only country in the world that has there nose in every other countrys buisiness?Are we the only country in the world that has to kick ( kiss? ) ass to get the things we need ( oil )from others?Why don't we become as independant as we can, close our boarders, build up our...

I don't have the answers, I hardly know the questions to ask, but let me start out by asking a few.How much does it cost to wage a war ? How much does it cost to rebuild and ocupy a country after a war is over? How much are the lives of our service men and all the innocent peoples that will be...

can"t you find any thing better to twiddle than that?:D :D

what are these guys talking about? I think I agree with all of them ?? its only money

I enter a position looking for ahalf or even a quarter, but I will take a dime befor a loss. So, what do you call that?

great thought, but that should read, should fail to recognize his own

yeh we could mabey make more if we pushed it, but mabey not.If I want to gamble I'll go to vagas. At least the drinks are free and there lots of girls to look at. its only money

I have a system that never fails.If the price of the stock I'm watching goes up ( pick your own amount) I buy, if it goes down I sell.( go short).Use a stop loss that your comfortable with,don't get greedy and take what you get.No indicators, no ta, no bull. Just do it. With proper money...

tell it like it is, man.

right on to many immature posts of late

Hey Right now I'm in Ocala. spent most of my working days in the Venice area, although I worked all of Florida south of tampa , mostly on the gulf side.Am now retired and do a little day trading (mostly scalp) to help finance my other vices. If I was a younger man and was moving to florida and...

i cant even log on ib this morning.Am new to ib. Have had nothing but problems.have not had problems with others.Is this a case of you get what you pay for?

Sounds good to me.Is a newbe stock swing trader allowed to attend? I live in Murphy N.C.

thanks for your reply.I think that is what I do.I back test a system for 6 months,no longer, as I think further back than that is not relivent.If the system looks good I than paper trade it until satisfied it works.By the way,I only day trade.no overnite. terrh

seems to me that backtesting is a usefull way to see if a system is going to work.However , what good does it do to know if a system worked six months ago,or five years, or whatever. what I want from backtesting is to find out if a system works in todays market.So,I guess my question is,how far...

thats a whole nother subject:D