He's saying 1/8th of a $, which means 12.5 cents per share, points in stocks being $1/share.
What exactly did you think I meant by saying that?
I got involved in forex when I was an analyst. I found it a more interesting market than fixed income in terms of something going on just about...
Brokers transfer share ownership and cash during the settlement process. There's a 2-day settlement window during which, assuming you're the...
I have both an undergrad degree in Finance and an MBA concentrated in Finance, so maybe my perspective can add some value. First, going back to...
I was referring to market orders. Limit and stop orders are different stories. My point was that there is ALWAYS a spread of some kind....
This whole discussion strikes me as a bit odd. The fact of the matter is that there are spreads in all markets all the time. As a retail...
The short answer is "no". If you have access to Excel, though, you're all set.
I haven't read the book, but my guess is that the timefactor is there to normalize the volatility to a standard timeframe, which is usuallly annual.
December trading can go either way. I've been trading for a while. Some years it's quite exciting, like in 2000 when I was riding EUR/JPY for a...
My stops are based on the trade, not risk management. For me they are the point at which the market tells me it's not going to do what I thought....
My personal philosophy is to set my stop at a point which tells me that my trade isn't going to do what I expected. I basically ask myself...
An interesting book on the subject is The Great Wave, which takes a look at historal inflation and its causes. A major culprit has been the...
Actually, I don't think it's any more or less easy to lose money in futures vs stocks. That's all strategy dependent. I do, however, think...
I'll second that. The Market Wizards books are great in that regard.
These trading rooms are all fine and great, but who's teaching the student how to make use of that information? Most faculty are woefully...
My point was that forecasting can be done either in linear fashion (regression, for example), or non-linear fashion (genetic algorthims, neural...
It can be done either way, but non-linear is most likely to be the more effective.
I think a better way to state your premise is to say that the fundamentals provide a long-term directional pull or bias, but that in the short to...
OK. Maybe it's 8pm.
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