The closest analog there is to trading for a living is starting a small business, odds are you will not make it and you will lose all your...
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/02/intl_business/apple-china-sales-economy/index.html First casualty, certainly won't be the last.
Someone who thinks that daytrading is a 1-2 hour daily job and he probably expects to double/triple his account every year .
50% of S&P500 revenues come from outside the USA, how did you think US corps made all those obscene profits without globalisation? Also AAPL's...
Trump's trade wars is the cause of all this volatility, the fed is only partly to be blamed. The way Trump thinks about economic growth and trade...
This is the most conducive environment for intraday scalping in many years, anyone who is unable to make money with this volatility/range ought to...
Most likely got killed trying to fade strong trends again, this is not the first time this has happened and it certainly won't be the last.
Moot point. You lose less money if you have less of your TLNW in your account but you also make far less than you should (when you do make money).
Yep I was just about to say that some people are confusing trade size with capital at risk. Trade size is certainly not = capital at risk, at...
You completely missed the point. Its not about making more money or less money, its about capital preservation. You can have an edge and still...
Yep live by the sword die by the sword. Nobody can turn a 10k account into an 800k account without taking some crazy risks and leverage, these...
This is the result of poor risk management and position sizing, which happen to be basic skills for a competent trader. I too sold TLRY naked...
Under Oct lows so the spread is well in the money now, plan to hold this until we hit 2530, a close above oct lows would stop me out.
We were obviously talking about higher time frames, BTFD pretty much only works if the market consistently makes HLs and HHs.
BTFD has worked flawlessly for nearly a decade, most have been conditioned to do this no matter what the charts say.
Exactly. Going long in Dec after the trade war truce was the "easy trade" but we know that easy trades rarely make anyone any money, I think we...
The only investments that guarantee you interest annually with zero loss of capital are CDs and treasuries (if you hold them till maturity...
Roughly 95% of my liquid net worth is in my trading account (which funds both my long term positions and short term trading). I can never...
Exactly. This Oct has been one of my best months ever, without which I would have only done ok this year, nothing fantastic, probably a little...
Yeah its retarded for them to not halt trading when some traders still had access to the exchange. I had a large CL short position on and I was...
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