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Trading for a living, a great book, I re-read it 
any time I need to understand how an indicator works. 
Manuel Barquin 
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  To: <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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  Sent: 28 August, 2002 1:41 PM
  Subject: RE: Can it be this simple
  
  
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  Message-----From: <A 
  href="mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
  Behalf Of Theo Lockefeer<SPAN 
  style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: woensdag 28 augustus 2002 
  9:16To: 
  metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<SPAN 
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  <SPAN 
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  :
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Never ever  put your eggs in 
  one basket ! , if some steals it
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">you donot have any eggs left or 
  ?
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What you would do here is ignore 
  the most important financial rule :
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">!!!!   money 
  management   !!!!
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">( this is much more important than 
  the technical aspects of your system
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">   believe me 
  !)
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now we could make it very 
  complicated with formula's etc
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">but it really  is a question 
  of diversification.  (and logical use of your brains or 
  ?)
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What i do f.i. is never ever risc 
  in one trade more the 1/20  of
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">my capital , and with using 
  stoploss etc the changes that i get broke
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">are minimilized : it is already 
  difficult enough in these markets or ?
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So : they tell you it is simple 
  and you maybe believe them but
  
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  that is not what my experience is : even with good technical 
  indicators
  
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  (which you have to choose yourself in a learning 
  proces)
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">      it 
  is difficult .
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">start little , plan your trades, 
  paper trade  Avoid losing money. 
  
  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">see what your emotions are when 
  you are in a trade !
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Good Luck 
  
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Theo
  
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  <SPAN 
  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">P.s. to go broke is very easy, to 
  survive is another game ! 
  
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    be this simple
    
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    <SPAN 
    style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Being a novice at technical 
    analysis, I was wondering if some could help me with the following proposal. 
    If I was to take my entire porfolio and trade either the QQQ or DIA using a 
    simple 30 day moving average, would I be a success or a failure. Seems to me 
    that it is a profitable system
    
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    style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Andre