Wait for the poll. This is on the honor system.
That's a good question.
So I see two moves, d and non-d. Which is the third?
The "I can make it back real fast" syndrome happens all over. You see it in a basketball game when a player makes a turnover and then makes a foul...
Discipline is not enough, nor is having a plan and following it sufficient -- there are plenty of bad plans out there.
I suspect most failed traders attempt some kind of reversion to the mean strategy . . . shorting tops and buying bottoms, whether on five minute...
When they go down 20%, what do you do? You're at 1.75 leverage, so you just lost 35% of your position, or you're down to $65,000. Now you have the...
What are the odds the Feds will keep their hands off profits in Roth IRA accounts? Or will it be a too tempting way to raise revenue?
I too think IB is great . . . The interface is the pits, but that's OK. Ultimately IB is going to put the other brokers either out of business or...
No this is common beliefs. "Reduce the overall cost of the position" - right but you're paying money to do it, and by buying lower and lower...
Not to threadjack, but what do FX traders think of this? http://www.brandes.com/Institute/Documents/BI_CarryingOn.pdf The argument is that...
Currencies don't move that fast, and they tend to trend . . . So they really should be good trading vehicles. I suspect the leverage is the...
Huh?
INcrease the number of strategies and memory to make it tougher.
http://www.unifr.ch/econophysics/minority/game/ You win if you do the opposite of everyone else, ie if you pursue the minority strategy. Sort...
This looks like one of those Jeff Cooper - Gann - "Divide by 360 and multiply by 7" charts.
How Charts Can Help You In The Stock Market by William L. Jiler is a simpler to understand abridgment of Edwards and Magee.
Maybe I should be more clear . . . Let's assume you knew both the direction and magnitude of the stocks future move, but you didn't know the...
Right. They illustrated "if you'd bot here, you would have made x". You failed to post all the charts where, if you'd bot there, you would have...
You've fallen into the trap of the lump of gains fallacy, and the fallacy of the predetermined gain. You're ignoring opportunity costs.
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