Several pages back somebody said that whenever a participant becomes predictable, they create an exploitable market inefficiency. I suspect most...
I haven't had the gmail empty draft problem because I use an email client. But this quote above is pure gold. Rules and "company standards" are...
It's a common mistake to expect ourselves to perform better than we can be. It's not really that hard to make money short-term when we're 100%...
Starting with just $1000, you can have $12,646,219 in three years: Month Balance 0 1,000 1 1,300 2 1,690 3 2,197 4 2,856 5 3,713 6...
@anders888: You have mentioned at least three very different scenarios in this thread: 1) front running, 2) tailing, and 3) analyzing trades....
It is hard to imagine a broker as a company doing that, because it would be too easy to get caught. But a rogue employee could try it. I don't...
There is a contradiction in what you wrote. You said you're a buy-and-hold investor and plan to own SPY forever, but you are talking about naked...
I admit I'm a bit of a wally with regard to equity market microstructure, but this my understanding of the broker priority (i.e. preferencing)...
+1 I need a comfortable and quiet workplace and also the opportunity to withdraw and contemplate. I tried a trading arcade during the late 1990's...
@garachen: I wondered when you started this thread if you were thinking of some blend of training/mentoring with talent search. I think that's an...
Interesting idea. Most of the comments on this thread relate to training experienced traders. One of the problems an experienced trader has (for...
I don't think the system has to be anything special. I read an interview with Ed Seykota where he said he taught a simple moving average...
There's an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. There is some truth in that. It's hard to trade and teach trading at the same...
It's not clear from the OP whether the system will boot. I had a failure to boot at least twice: 1) dead power supply, and 2) dead motherboard &...
Possibly the power supply failed. That's not very hard or expensive to replace.
I think it helps to think outside the box, and that comes naturally to me because I'm something of a misfit. But I'm also envious of the more...
I don't understand that. What I am doing in my trading now is remarkable basic. My edge is mostly that I rely heavily on automation and keeping...
I haven't found any indicators, whether concocted by myself or others, that can find anything that I cannot see in a chart.
People sometimes see facees in the clouds, or in a water stain on a wall, or even a grilled cheese sandwich. We can debate whether those patterns...
On first pass, 10% sounds reasonable, as money managers often get something like 2/20. But if we're talking about a startup without a solid track...
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