stops and position sizing are necessary to prevent wipout on any given day regardless of what the market does. You have to do it, even if you can...
this whole thread has become a testament to the sucker instinct. I've got it too, I want to hear "the secret" even though I know there isn't one.
There are some books out on him, one of them by a guy who worked for him for a couple of years. In the books, even the one he authorized, it...
I would like to know more as well, I find that very few people undertand how or why this works and nobody wants to explain it.
the thing is , they obviously knew they were doing simultaneous buys and sells for their own account and since they all had to get licensed,...
yeah dis, I don't doubt it. In the longer term things look crappy for stocks, but it has come out that the fed is buying stock index futures on...
I use optionsxpress and they give good customer service and fast executions of market orders. Also there is no account minimum at all, you can...
I think that situation in the previous message is very real and happening right now. It explains a lot about the rapid decline of the dollar vs....
Warning, Hypothetical situation to follow: *************************************** Lets say i was a hedge fund operator in london trading the...
its really strange how he ( soros ) made his largest single killing by fighting against british bank intervention in the Pound and winning. He...
We've got follow through to the upside and it looks like we are headed for 1550 on the nasdaq composite. Gold stocks are looking risky, there is...
someone else created a thread about the fed manipulation of the markets. He was claiming that the fed was actually buying stock, and he was...
Window dressing is definitely a real occurrance. You can also add in the fact of new cash being automatically added to pension funds at either a...
I was trying to play QLGC with long calls the day before wcom crap hit the fan. I bought puts and now an long a straddle on QLGC since there is a...
that's interesting, thanks for the info. May I ask which firm you work for ? If I could get a real job trading the firms money and a consistent...
well good luck, let us know how it works out.
ok, i'm not a daytrader, what are bullets ?
bono and lundy, just agree that you disagree and leave it alone. About dismissing things.... There was a point when I first got out of...
ok, I'll throw my two cents in about the zero sum theory. I don't think that the stock market is really zero sum because some companies out...
I am not an expert on prop firms, but it is obvious to a sceptical thinker like myself that most of them are really just brokerage firms trying to...
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