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Strategies & Market Trends : Want to make $1000 a week trading.....I'm going to try!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: vic vreeland who wrote (979)	3/8/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Mike Sawyer	Respond to of 1100

I've got to agree that it would weaken the strength of this thread if the trade messages were privatized. It's very helpful to everyone if all people post their trades as soon as possible. Even if they have to catch up at the end of the day it would be helpful. Thanks to all for making this thread so resourceful!

To: vic vreeland who wrote (979)	3/8/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.