Recent content by Millano

One of the indices... either the DOW or SnP... you can go back so many decades, and if you decided to buy it at a certain date and sell it on another date every year, you would have made huge profits. While if you buy/sold opposite at those two dates, you would end up with a negative return...

Engineers, come to the United States! We sure could use more.

On the subject of percentage of success, I wonder what sort of percent usually beat the indices? Because 'success' can vary. It's one thing to return 30% a year and need to quit due to living expenses, compared to quitting after losing half your capital.

Sorry, I think I misunderstood, from someone else's post about your plan.

Pardon me, I appreciate all the published trading info you've presented, but... I skipped most of this thread, maybe someone else mentioned. I saw at the start you said you expected 70% in three months? And then I checked your site and it looks like you have made around 23% in three months. Not...

I often like using Wall Street Analyser for viewing candlestick charts, because it's freeware and needs no signup. Though it takes till over 4 hours after the US market closes until I can get an update for the day, and when I try to put the data in manually, it never works. Has some nice basic...

Though if I bought with margin, and made $1000 profit, wouldn't IB deduct about 6% of that? Or do they just deduct from the percentage of profit from the money that was borrowed? And I have another question... I'm just a very small time trader for the time being. When an individual signs up...

I have a dumb question about margin buying... If I buy a stock (US stock, and I'm a US citizen), is there a base fee? Or is the only aspect of IB making a profit coming from a possible gain or loss on the stock? I'm confused at what the rates mean, but I'm assuming that... they calculate a...

Isn't half of learning how to win, learning how to lose? So a person knows what not to do. Though I'm not sure how much of that you ment in a general life philosophical sense, rather than purely trade oriented.

Very interesting posts so far. I thank all of you for posting! I'll go search around the boards/site(s) more in depth on this topic. I don't fully understand. If it was all survival of the fittest, then how is it possible that small size traders can make money? Wouldn't it be the ones with the...

I often hear that only a very small percentage of traders actually make it. Could anyone explain why this is? I mean, do most of them not make an actual positive monetary gain? Or is it usually an oppurtunity cost issue? I mean, where the trader makes money, but they just don't make enough...