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Old 09-07-2008, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rrram2 View Post
Do you think I am so green as to not know that one short costs me 39 cents to hold over night while one long only pays me 5 cents?

DO you have any idea how many banked pips I made last week starting Monday? I dont I havent counted, but it is in the neighborhood of 7000 pips.
DO you think the interest rate differential is really significant? I could see if guppy didnt move and I didnt scalp her for over 1000 pips a day last week.
Yes I still have drawdown, But I already have about 25% equity after one week.

Normally I would have been sold out on that run down to 185.XX, heck I was sold out on the run down on mar17 and that was ONLY 192. I am quite a bit smarter than I was 6 months ago. Now it really doesnt matter where she goes, I will bank pips and slowly earn the drawdown back. I am sometimes right on So in the few instances where I am wrong about direction, I am only playing the "line" so it doesnt matter, unless I am way out of balance.
I dont sit equally balanced most of the time. normally I am leaning to one side or the other. I am only balanced equally going into fridays close, so the gap up doesnt hurt me any.
Well a trader's only report card is his account balance, so if you have more money now than when you started (especially after banking all those 7000pips) then all the power to you. However, my argument about the pointlessness of holding hedged positions is still valid.
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