I've used their Oddsmaker in the past, which helped me stumble upon a strategy I've refined since and still use. I keep meaning to dust it off...
You guys can argue over semantics and definitions, but I think everyone is basically saying the same thing. Market conditions change. Traders...
All the banks I've dealt with only cared about 2 or 3 years of tax returns showing I made enough. They didn't care how I made the money, just as...
It's like flipping a coin repeatedly and hitting a streak of five heads in a row. Doesn't happen often, but if you do it long enough you should...
So obviously I've decided not to continue the journal on a regular basis in 2011. I think I achieved what I set out to do, which was to show some...
I lost money for years. But it was a hobby/addiction and I didn't know what I was doing at all. When I got serious about it and applied myself,...
No.
You may be able to have an account in your personal name, but assign beneficial ownership to your corporation.
Not usually.
It's the same on the golf courses in Canada, way more lefties than in the States. Go into a golf shop and the club selection is almost as good...
Sorry Joey, I didn't see your post earlier. I started with 40k through just saving money. I had a decent job and ran a business on the side. I...
I'm only trading about half the size now that I was a few months ago. Just waiting it out, hoping things turn around.
For strategies where I determine my risk ahead of time I usually use the same method. Decide $ risk then share size based on that. Much of my...
Zillions of hours testing, finding a system that always makes money, and the first thing you want to do is write an article about it?
Actually, that should have been my 4th theme of the year. Opening orders sucked the worst ever in my career. They were good the first half, but...
In this chart I removed my fat finger day in April to give a truer reflection of how my pl tracks the vix. This is a 20 day rolling average of...
2010 average daily pl <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3049361>
2010 equity curve <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3049359>
2010 Recap. For the year I grossed $825,141. I traded a total of 27,258,000 shares, 241 futures contracts and 204 options contracts. I don't...
+15k for the week, a paltry 111,000 shares traded. Daily pl was +6, 0, +1, +1, +7. Ending the year with a 12 week win streak. In what I think...
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