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To: gold 77 who wrote (117)5/24/2006 10:02:50 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 525
 
Spoos are a difficult market.

Not too many years ago it was $500 a point, and the mini market did not exist. You had to have ice water in your blood.

Burns you out at some point.

I knew a guy who forgot to put in a stop loss, I forget how many contracts he had on. A Daytrader, he would put on 10, sometimes a hundred large contracts.

Lost a million dollars over lunch.