Enjoying your journal. We have a similar background. I spent 6 years in the mortgage industry and now trying to make it as a trader.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/economy/toronto-homebuyer-misery-game/ See if you can win the bidding wars on these houses.
The younger people who were first time buyers were mostly getting down payments from parents... and parents get it from refinancing their homes. I...
Our lending guidelines were very stringent and there were no shenanigans at all. Having said that we made a lot of exceptions on uninsured...
I worked for a lender doing mortgages for 5 years, we did deals all over the country. I got sick of looking at peoples finances and the ridicules...
Why cant the international students rent like the vast majority of Canadian students? It makes no sense that a student will come here and pay 1.5...
This morning Ontario unveiled their "Fair Housing Plan" Measures include: - 15% tax on foreign buyers who dont live or work in the GTA - Rent...
I watched some of her youtube videos before because well she is easy on the eyes and its nice to hear women talk about trading. She says she made...
I am practicing trading on the SPY until I have a consistent track record. Only then will I go into the ES. The smaller position sizing is huge in...
How many years of living expenses, would you guys consider as sufficient capital?
You can try trading the Micro Euro contract M6E. It has a pretty small tick size and margin requirement. Or maybe the Mini Nikkei 225 on the...
I agree with this. I think they also need to focus on educating people from a young age about the benefits of living in different parts of the...
The west coast is pretty cool like that. This would never fly in Toronto.
I like the Pacific Time zone as well. Up at 5:30 am and done work by 1 pm or earlier.
There are also some interesting alternatives to traditional housing situations that people are exploring in the lower mainland (Vancouver). Lots...
There is another side to this problem which is lack of affordable rentals for people in the big cities. Incomes stay flat but rental costs and...
http://www.greaterfool.ca This is a great blog about Canadian Real Estate. Great entertainment. I'm in Canada and renting in our Major cities...
Once you find the holy grail, will you be executing manually or through algo? If manually, you still will have to put in the time and losses to...
Do you trade live or just search for strategies on past data? From what I understand and my limited experience is that Trading is a skill based...
Some trading platforms have a reverse position button or hot key. Comes in handy sometimes.
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