I need someone who can 'paste' something onto a pre-existing bit of video footage. No high quality required, just something cheap & cheerful. Does...
Why should taxpayers be funding bank depositors? I mean in a moral sense. Since ultra-safe t-bills are available directly to all citizens, I can...
Yep I agree that some deposit insurance is useful in a fractional reserve system. However I think it works with a limit. 100k is enough to cover...
This is trickier than it seems - stocks can take much longer to go broke than you expect, and the timing can be difficult. There can also be huge...
Yes I agree with you, for example I wanted to bottom fish the Nikkei recently once it was in the 12000s, I tried a couple of times and did catch...
Depends why you entered. If you are entering because you expect to catch the next leg of upward momentum, then sell once the momentum is no longer...
Fair comment. I did mention that shorter term traders will have to do it differently. But you are right that I probably biased this thread based...
Journal started May 13th. Gold price 1440 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=267347&highlight=scalping+journal Gold...
Ah...now I see why attaboy was so upset: http://www.barchart.com/charts/futures/GCQ3 Jealous much? :D Don't worry, I'm planning to cover...
But it's just so fun. Cmon, have you never wanted to totally roast a troll? Anyway I fully expect this post to be deleted by tomorrow morning....
Just waiting for atticus to show me his trading calls, I am sure I won't be able to match up to his genius...quite frankly I might as well give up...
Why do you think trade frequency has anything to do with profitability? Let me get this right - you are trying to say that someone making a...
There are two good approaches for picking a oversold low. If you can detect signs of a clear capitulation climax, then don't buy anything until...
Actually a lot of people invest in bank deposits for a higher return: CDs offering more than T-bills. Since there is no free money, that higher...
It is not a faith based system - it is a market, not a religion. Caveat emptor and all that. No one with more than two brain cells to rub together...
Socialism would be making taxpayers fund the costs of bank failure. Putting the cost of failure onto people who freely place funds with the...
I'd have avoided daytrading and kept at longer-term speculation from the start.
Question - gold is down a lot in a short time, what made you short it now, and where would you exit if wrong? What kind of price move do you...
Agree, if you trade multiple times a day then a journal here can't be real-time without being a loss-making distraction. But then a journal...
I would view 'overtrading' (i.e. trading with too much size/risk) as having a >1% chance of losing more than your maximum drawdown tolerance -...
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