I would like to ask the elite traders here who have been there done that, tried both short-term and long-term trading, what is your preference?...
Hi nursebee, Your consistent track record sounds like you are ready and able to do full-time trading. Ever considered it?
Although there is nothing wrong with full-time trading, full-time traders still get some funny looks when they reveal they trade for a living....
Hi loyek590, May I ask which book was that? I do not mind going through 500 pages of dry statistics since you said it is the best trading book....
My broker, Interactive Brokers, mentioned that it has the highest percentage of profitable forex traders. I am generally very happy with IBKR for...
Hi marketsurfer, Glad to have a friend of VN here. VN fascinates me. His track record of 30% CAGR for 20 years is fascinating. What is even more...
That is not true. It is a fact that many turtles got rich.
Victor Niederhoffer compounded 30% gains for 20 years. Yet, he blew up spectacularly 2 times in 1997 and 2007. He was so good that George Soros...
This is quite incredible. Is it because he is managing a small fund? But with 41% CAGR over 18 years, even a small size becomes huge. Even more...
Not exactly evidence. Here are some extracts from http://political-economy.com/stock-trading-systems/ Turtle traders –Richard Dennis knows as the...
The turtle system made many turtles rich in the 1980s. Today, it has been said that the trading system no longer works. Which parts of the...
Scalpers need to be mentally agile and fast to have an edge over fellow scalpers. However, how can human scalpers compete with machines today...
This was a famous experiment which proved that traders can be made and not born. It worked very well for Richard Dennis but has stopped working...
I have not read through the entire thread. Too many pages. But it is hard to believe that a good speculator can blow up in an environment where...
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