I'd always heard it as the traveling salesman who hires a hooker and decides to expense it against his meal allowance because he ate it. :)
It's variable - sometimes futures leads equities and ETFs, other times equities lead futures and ETFs, and still other times ETFs lead equities...
It's not as simple as "small" vs. "large" stops (except maybe in scalping). If you don't factor in the kind of entry you're taking (e.g., if...
Your implied presumption here is that you will be successful enough at trading to make a continuous living at it. You might, you might not. Lots...
That wasn't what I was asking. Perhaps if you just give a clearer example of the three different values that you're using and their derivation...
Install the Google toolbar and it's popup blocker http://toolbar.google.com Check your registry settings for Intenet Explorer too. You can...
So did he have anything to say?
But what's the difference between your use of ratio of win/loss and % of win/loss? Seems like they're measuring the same thing - just different...
Isn't "percentage win/loss" essentially the same as "ratio win/loss"?? Seems like you only need to know that ($win/$loss)*(#win/#loss) is > 1
How about Indonesian Rupiah or Venezuelan Bolivars Takes more than 2 Bolivars to a Won and more than 7 Rupiah
Check the Ziff-Davis website - they should have several different types of benchmarking tools. An overall throughput test that's close to the...
It's also funny how so many people talk about how so and so politician was in the military and so his opinion is more important than some other...
OK, two quick thoughts: 1. Isn't this like asking a hijacker if they packed their own bags? What are they going to say? Oh yeah, I'm an HIV...
Before responding, let's be clear about what you're thinking of doing? Are you just asking about the practicality of running all of what you...
You're confusing the practicality of deploying large capital pools with longer timeframe trading being more profitable. You're also confusing...
Gordon must have dropped and broke his Magic 8 Ball :)
Can your broker do reliable market on close orders for you rather than you're trying to "eBay" your exit?
Exactly. Unfortunately, there's STILL after all these years a lot of misused terminology. The perception(even among some ETers) seems to still...
This kind of crap can definitely get out of hand, but it's perfectly reasonable to expect some degree of approvals being needed. You don't want...
Another Bush mole hill with delusions of mountainhood. But's got nothing to do with him. It's the same kind of bullshit deal at taxpayer...
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