One of the things that first impressed me about IB was their OLD webpage. It looked "worldly"...as in a world-wide trading shop. The new one...
By the way...regarding mark-to-market election, you might want to take a look at this brief overview of things to consider....
I used Tradelog for the first time this year, and while it has some weaknesses, it does do one thing that you need that the IB statements alone...
How many people can say that they had the entire US economy at their mercy at the age of 28? You?
Need I remind you that the CME is a public corporation now. And these days, what manager of a public corporation wouldn't rather make a quick...
I have only been trading Globex for about a year now (though I used to be in the S&P pit at the Merc). So I'm wondering... Has this (the big...
Maybe they need to experience a large-scale class action lawsuit.
Some CME bigwig's position started to move against them, so they PULLED the plug. If it gets worse after they reopen, they'll probably start...
I think it was Edison who said "Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration." What he didn't say is that the 1% of inspiration is the most...
Tomasz Janeczko, the chief designer of AmiBroker, had some good advice I read somewhere. He suggests optimizing your system on one set of data (a...
Like P. T. Barnum said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
I recently went through this process. Here is what I did. I bought a second hard drive, same size as my primary; not quite as fast, but less...
I work with a fairly detailed set of trading rules that I have worked out over time, and when I didn't have a hot position at stake (i.e., as...
On the short side, I trade exclusively ETFs and index futures. Maybe other traders are agile enough to short individual stocks, but it seems to me...
Here's the recipe... 9 cups of coffee and a good polka blastin' on the stereo, then you're ready to trade. sax
Listening to music while trading? Jesse Livermore would turn over in his grave... He used to trade from a sound proofed room in his office...
They haven't picked me off yet, but as you can imagine, I'm not real happy with my entry on the trade! I should know by now to let a red hot...
I went short QGs at $6.50 on Friday. My long term indicators tell me that we could be near the start of a bear market (12-18 mos) in natural...
Fruity, Actually your score is 103. You loose 50 points for saving the results. :cool:
As candletrader points out with the premise of this thread, there can be negative consequences to ANY action we take, or fail to take. We must be...
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