Day Trading Takes a Dive In crummy markets and hot weather, players head to the beach The Investment Dealers' Digest : IDD; New York; Aug 20,...
My sentiments on Van Tharp's work are closely aligned with that of Babak. All I will add is that had it not been for Van Tharp's work, I would...
Praetorian, RTharp and others, Comments on your Great New Pattern are very welcome here. It seems to me that there is often a volume spike...
In my opinion, there is no need to respond to known trouble-makers, even if they give an illusion of being serious. As Scalper Jake so eloquently...
I have read and profited from both of Van Tharp's publically available books. If his peak performance program gives added insights it may very...
JSkeldon, My picks would be AMAT and NVDA ... the charts and explanation can be found here:...
Congrats, Hitman, on coming through one of the most difficult summer trading periods that I have seen, with a profit. When things get better, you...
Given that this was the last day before Labor Day, I had vowed to myself to go VERY easy unless there was some real action. I had also vowed to...
I will periodically add people to my recommended ignore list on the first post of this thread. To choose to ignore someone, simply go into your...
I agree with much of what has been said of the advantage of futures over qqq. But, for the single contract trader, qqq provides the advantage...
Geez Praetorian, You are a heavy drinker :D
Agreed. I am not sure how/why I have ended up in Professional Traders, and would prefer to be in the Trading forum.
I spoke with a very credible sounding rep at Datek, who explained to me the quirk vis-a-vis NASD brokers vs NYSE brokers. As mentioned, I have...
A nice momentum dump occurred when the Dow pierced through the 10,000 level. I scalped the dump, but ended up being cut up when the market snapped...
How do I move this thread out of Professional Traders into the main Trading area?
My latest commentary on the general market can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/rangecontraction/race.html
Hitman, I would tend to agree with what tntneo has said. Just like lovers gravitate toward eachother for incomprehensible reasons, the...
Mistermark, Your comments are somewhat revealing. There are two possible explanations: 1) you genuinely did not realise that TradeRX is a...
akhuto, You may wish to read what I have written here. There may be hope for trading in a cash account and not having to wait for 3 days:...
I agree with this. You started your career at the right time i.e. you have started at the WORST possible time, which provides the BEST possible...
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