"One of my big aspirations in life is to use the privileged position I was born into to help alleviate the abject poverty that infests my country...
My view is that this is the sort of intervention you want to fade. The Japanese are fighting against the long-term trend in both price and...
Dr Doom aka Mark Faber
I'm a born procrastinator, and I deal with it by scheduling specific time slots for things that need doing e.g. 730-755am Pre-open preparation...
Because the "algorithm" only states that the exchange *may* bust trades beyond a certain level, not that it has to. A large spike could be a...
"Most of my success has been due to my hanging on while my profits mounted. That is the big secret - do with it what you will." - Arthur Cutten
That's not a problem. Have you used the software?
Has anyone tried the GL Trade software front end, and if so what kind of features does it have? Does it have 1-click trading, and a good market...
Trade the European and Asian bond and stock index futures. Or trade currencies and gold/silver which are almost 24 hour markets. In Europe,...
In my experience, the opportunity cost of experimenting with small size is far outweighed by the profits which accrue once one develops the...
My TT pays for itself in terms of extra ticks per day. For scalping you just can't beat that market depth window and one-click trading. The...
I had this problem when I started out trading intraday, and more recently with my longer term trades. In both cases I solved it by dedicating a...
Forget your Aerons - what you really want is one of these http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cj9r/hammock-in-graphics-lab-small.jpg :D
I add to losers under the following conditions: i) If I was flat, I would want to enter at the current price with a larger than normal position...
Market depth display and mouse-draggable one-click orders are almost essential if you want to be competitive as a futures scalper. You also want...
I started out with 5k of my own and a 10k loan from my parents. A couple of months later my clearing firm went broke so I borrowed 10k from the...
Exactly. To be honest you should be totally familiar with all exchange rules pertaining to out-trades, delivery, market closure etc - anything...
I can see what you are getting at, but the fact is that you definitely can make money purely by reacting to news. If a big figure like non-farm...
Why not switch to a broker who doesn't make this charge? The fees are only charged by Eurex on a firm-wide basis i.e. if you personally sumbit...
I'm not so sure - the screens of LIFFE and Eurex performed very well on Sep 11th, and there was liquidity all the way down despite an...
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