Start up capital of 50K if you are single, with minimal expenses, and have an edge. If you don't know what your edge is, then obviously don't...
You can liken the financial markets to baseball. You have different levels of play, you have college baseball, the minor leagues, and finally the...
If you trade size in a stock and display it on the bid price, the HFTs will often hit the best offer on the order book. If you do it on the ask,...
The liquidity is there if you trade small. Those who trade size have to break up their orders in order to try to minimize their impact on the...
If the HFTs are profitable, as we all know they are, they are extracting those profits from other traders. When the HFTs didn't exist, those...
Right, the main prey of the HFTs are active trading institutions, ie hedge funds, and the TA based daytraders are just icing on the cake.
I can only go by my trading results, where my longer term trades massively outperform my short term trades of less than 24 hours. The performance...
With the HFTs ruling the short term trading patterns, you see many more intraday overbought and oversold conditions that are both irrational and...
It is eerie how similar this first week of trading in 2016 is like the first week in 2008. And the 2007 that preceded 2008 is quite similar to...
A lot of people think they have edge but the edge is illusory because often it is in the context of a bull market. It is not alpha, but beta in...
Wow, it happened again. Not that it should surprise anyone, but we got another face ripping V bottom after going down for a few days. How many...
That is why everyone wants to be a hedge fund manager. In the end, You can lose all your client's money and they cant take back the 2 and 20 that...
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.
There are many times when I would like to execute multiple different futures contracts simultaneously but I don't have the software that allows...
It is a lack of knowledge. Really, in finance, if you are ignorant, it is much better to be an ignorant skeptic than someone who is ignorant and...
INTL FC Stone is including the exchange fee under the term clearing fee. AMP is not. AMP is collecting the clearing fee themselves. It is an...
AMP Future is charging a clearing fee that is a deceptive way of charging extra commission without calling it a commission. It is not in anyway...
Typical internet behavior! Stick around and brag when the trade is going your way, disappear and ignore all your followers when getting killed.
Why go long natural gas in December? Natural gas usually bottoms in March after winter is over, not at the start of winter. Also market is in...
If he knew when his bad months would come, obviously he would avoid them. Its like asking a hedge fund manager why he had those bad months, and...
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