Is trading an addiction for you?
Actually, if you're addicted to trading, quitting is very difficult, which is a good thing if there is success at the end of the tunnel, but a...
Right. CDS are institutional instruments, but even if hypothetically you can implement the trade and collect the premiums, you make money 99% of...
I was watching the futures when nfp #s came out. Initially market sold off ~0.3% on the bad numbers, but then it went green as some thought bad...
John Arnold made billions and just retired. He no longer posts on elitetrader. :D
It's because many people are moving money out of stocks and into bonds. Very few people among the general population are interested in stocks anymore.
Time to share a timeless classic. I think we've all felt the same way before at least once, if not many times, sometimes over and over again....
Yeah, esp. in the era of central planning. The down moves are so rare, but when they come it's fast and furious. Incredibly difficult to time the...
Refer to Lifetime Losing Trader post: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222419&highlight=lifetime+losing+trader
Clever chart. Perfectly describes the experiences of 90% of stock traders and probably 99% of futures, options, and leveraged currency traders....
When volume falls to zero, stocks will trade at infinity.
Direct manipulation would be direct purchases of stocks or futures by the Fed or related entities. Indirect manipulation would be something...
The way you say it, sounds so much like a coin toss trade.
Quote from ammo: game is so controlled now that the fed,banks, gs,jpm, can team up and just move the market against the whales..they know...
But plenty of centi-thousandaire traders on ET :) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=241638
Funny you mentioned NG because I just looked at the quote a moment before I read your post. Down 8.5% today. Pretty fugly for some big hedge fund...
Fat tails occur more often than suggested by normal distributions. This is why distant volatility is so friggin expensive now, especially in a...
Not really. GMCR's 11/10/11 earnings miss caused stock to crater from 67 to 40, a 40% decline. Yesterday GMCR closed at 50. A 40% decline...
Whoever bought the GMCR 30 puts made a friggin 100 fold return!!!
IMO, personality, such as your susceptibility to stress, can make a huge impact. People who get stressed easily tend to make bad traders because...
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