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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (9768)	6/16/2000 3:29:00 PM
From: F Robert Simms	Respond to of 11513

<point is that as the size of the account grows we are inclined to use larger numbers of contracts. As we do that the dollar risk goes up. The one large loss will be larger than the one large gain.> I agree with that point. I was just trying something different. If I was trading a real account and it went 30% I wouldn't increase my trade size. I was saying that I could be lucky in choosing the day to start my trading account on, so basically I made each day day one. That way I could see what I saw in that if I started on a series of flat days I would bust out. I can use that information. If I was trading it like you suggest I might have easily missed that fact.