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Strategies & Market Trends : Want to make $1000 a week trading.....I'm going to try!!!

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To: vic vreeland who wrote (979)3/8/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 1100
 
Well I guess I am the one guilty
of clutter, so I must apologize.

Well, that's three strong votes to keep
things as they are...(and I didn't
presume to go against everybody's
wishes, merely a thought. Certainly
this is Cents thread and we play by
his rules...)

I guess I'll just have to get on the
stick and post my trades. Cents: at
the bottom of the post is a specific
question for you.

Now an explanation for why I said
what I did:
Part of the inconvenience for me is
that I'm not online when I make an
option trade--that's a different
account from the one I normally
trade in. Plus, I've stopped trading
in the account which I was using for
the 1k/wk game, because it was a
taxable account--so now I actually
have to keep track of my trades and
an imaginary balance, which is
contained within a larger real
account balance. You see, my
game balance is contained within a
larger non-taxable (ira) account now.

Anyway, I suppose if Cents can do it
for all of us, I can keep track too.

One more detail I need Cents to answer:
The account I was trading in for the
game was a margin account. Now that
I'm just doing the game trades in my
IRA (and it is not margin of course)
can I still exceed by cash balance
for trades...that is, can I use
imaginary margin? Is this what folks
refer to kickin?

Anyway, if it is too complex I would
just assume drop out of the game now
too, having a significant gain for
the year (more than 1k/wk) has, for
me, made the contest less exciting
than it was before a few of my darts
hit some winners.
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