If you are making 80K US dollars per year - profit after all expenses and before any personal or corporate taxes (excluding trading related taxes)...
The points made by nitro are useful: I have designed and written a system which identifies and stores the data noted by nitro as well as other...
Good advice here by others. .... The important point is that every trade you take on - in real world trading - should have a known exit. That...
<<But even a monkey can click onto Shortboy's 2001 performance and see he made $30,000. << 30,000 as a yearly (gross ?) trading performance is...
<<Perhaps some people are wired from the start with the right emotional and mental framework to have success in trading, but obviously the...
Backtesting etc. IMHO only makes sense if it is done within the context of a statistical risk model. You need a sample and time-delimited set of...
Well ... Why would you choose a market based upon your assumption - that there are more inexperienced traders ? How could you know the exact...
Leasing costs are available on the major exchanges websites or by calling the membership departments at the CME CBOT CBOE. The exchange world...
With all due respect ..... I really do not think that anyone has time to post their trading activities in detail. Morover why would they do this ?...
""I'm familiar with Wolfram's general premise, that most highly complex phenomena spawn from a handful of basic interactions more elegantly simple...
Hmm .... Well if you really want to know about these topics then you can head to any university library and start studying. Like most topics...
Excellent posting by Traden4alpha ..... I approach margin in a way which is similar to Traden4Alpha's view. In our models, margin is viewed as...
If you want to be involved in trading then you need to treat the entire process like a business and ask questions like: who is taking the risk,...
My company uses dell: they are verified to work with Windows versions - 2000, xp etc. Matrox video cards support multiple monitor setups with Win...
For a client computer XP is fine: Just make sure that any hardware you are using has xp-compatible drivers. XP uses an updated 2000 kernel...
Sorry to hear your story. My conclusion after a number of years in the financial markets is that some folks should not be in the game: you need...
I really cant see using market orders except in exceptional situations - maybe where I didn't care about my entry point: I cant think of any...
Well .... Futures are IMHO tougher to trade than equities in the sense that you need to be more disciplined. If you have done well with equities...
The business "Formaility" index geos up from west to east. That is, the east coast is more formal than the west coast with the midwest somewhere...
I started out on the Merc Floor working for the exchange: I then began working with member firms consulting to them on building mathematical...
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