2 pts is plenty for many serious strategies that aren't momentum scalping. Depends on your timeframe, among other things..
Some traders swear by this and other similar management techniques, but the reality is you are really trading two distinct and separate methods....
Nothing more than stupid pop-up ad using fear tactics to get you to buy their software. They could just as easily say "click here and see monkeys...
The thing with patterns is not whether they repeat or they exist or what have you... the issue is how tradeable the pattern is. At what point on...
Money management is the easy part. A lot of authors have made a lot of money selling books to traders telling them it's all about money...
I took Sands course 10 years ago and there was no NDA. The Turtle methods have been publicly disclosed many times (perhaps "illegally") in the...
Not the only way. There are lots of short-term strategies (based on length of time in trade by bars, not time frame) that yield very consistent...
Disagree. If newbies always get killed quickly when learning to trade, you not only get rid of the newbies quickly but it will be more difficult...
Depends on the system... not all systems produce large drawdowns. Depends on the methodology behind the system.
Maybe you don't have an edge. Maybe you do but it's small. Maybe you're not applying it correctly. But enough maybe's... why not post your...
Chaos theory is only minimally helpful in understanding the market because the market is only semi-chaotic. But chaos theory does help with other...
Ah, then we agree. :) An example of a "general" strategies I was referring to would be long-term trend following. The time horizon and...
I enjoyed the book, especially the parts where these maverick scientists start making newbie trading mistakes even though they've been researching...
Read "The Predictors". The Prediction Company is still hiring, but you have to be top of your field.....
Only if you're trying to take advantage of arb-type inefficiencies lasting for a few ticks. You can throttle your analysis time frame back to 1m...
People don't always sell because they feel the price is going down. It could be a hedge, an arb, an exit via profit-target, one leg of a...
Helene, at 6-1 odds, betting currently stopped because a TON of new accounts were created in Helene's home town and everyone bet the max....
Disagree. There are both general and specific strategies that do not perform as well when too many people begin to trade the same issues. Look...
Open multiple accounts at some broker (use other family member/spouse names). Repeat at other brokers. But of course by the time you've opened 5...
There are a couple different issues here. First, whether a firm/broker/individual with access would try to reverse engineer your strategies....
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