Trading is not for everyone. It's good to hear that some people are actually living life.
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If you want only to beat inflation, build a diversified portfolio of hard assets. Buy precious metals, agricultural commodities and real...
Yes, but the mini contracts trade with much lower volume.
I don't know if you can say that any of the ags are slow moving, but I'd be looking at corn.
If you are worried, you are overextended or you haven't got a big enough hedge.
And oil is going to rally, I might add.
The media waits for the market's reaction before deciding what spin to put on the news. I saw the headlines change at least 3 times today.
The market shrugged off the bad jobs report earlier, maybe it'll shrug this one off too.
Yes, this is because humans see patterns where there is not necessarily a pattern. The computer doesn't have this problem.
Sounds rather like the technical traders...
busted!
Long term, we should see serious inflation, so I think its the commodities (oil, ags, metals) that will outperform.
I don't like the guy, but in his defense, its not him who teaches the trading course. As quoted from the website: "Robert Kiyosaki does not...
Almost half the people who answered the poll said they trade index futures. I should have separated that into stock indexes, commodity indexes,...
I agree its not the best, but do you really think that it's not the most popular?
I was expecting that also. In stocks you have high liquidity and low capital requirements. You also have a ton of brokers to choose from.
I forgot to put that on the poll. What are the spreads like?
Who's bullish and on what?
I guess that if there were profitable strategies in low-volume markets, then people would flock to them and they would cease to be low-volume...
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