this is not about n=1 this is about the stock market AS A WHOLE. companies merge, some fail, some succeed, etc. that is tangential to...
it is not a zero sum game, and i have already explained why the nation grows wealth and the market correspondingly has grown as well zero...
im not sure what your point is. and fwiw, any student of politics knows that most famines are caused by political actions, not by lack of food....
thank YOU volente. and as another example, using the same basic setups, i could theoretically trade 20 contracts (vs. 3) *30 pts and make 3g's...
bitrend, in the case of TRADING you are right. in the case of investing, i would say no. traders don't trade stocks or futures or options....
pekelo. you are absolutely right to go further. futures and options are merely agreements. you don't own anything underlying. futures...
i average about $1600 a week in my futures account. and as for what i funnel it into, i do buy a lot of really conservative stuff. "grandma"...
in the above scenario, it should be "every person in the USA" not "every person in the world"
"Both sides have valid arguments to approve or disapprove." there is a lot of arguable stuff in investing and trading that reasonable people...
"at the top it might be zero sum" it is NOT zero sum. wealth is created. why is that hard to understand? look at the world today....
let me amend the last to say the 1mill is not a bright line. 1 mill shares at $80 a share is a pretty big stock. 1 million at $20 is not so much...
"define a "small stock" in terms of volume?" if it does over 1mill shares, it is not a small stock, although if it trades at $2 a share,...
my rule is that i never widen a stop, and i always set a stop @ entry. i have several setups i use, but the widest stop i ever use on a YM trade...
"already stated that I've seen countless new traders here and elsewhere blow out over and over and come across no one of them able to master futs....
not to mention that a dirty pair of socks does not (usually) grow wealth. US companies do. .00001% of MSFT (or whatever %age of the...
"Fair enough, but the stock market does not create wealth, the economy does." correct. but in the LONG TERM (we are all dead ha ha), prices in...
i also think that if you are a beginning trader, there are plenty of "small name" stocks to trade on an intraday basis that are superior to big...
do you understand that economies GROW wealth please compare the real wealth of the lowest income quintile NOW vs. 100 yrs ago. (or any...
a great way to practice trading methodology on the YM is to trade DIA while you are learning. DIA, at $1 per point is like a mini-mini-dow....
the market is a zero sum game? lol. spare me. our economy generates wealth. as does the stock market (which reflects, in the long run,...
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