I have excluded overnight and eth gaps, because im an intra day trader. If i include them then the ranges become even bigger than shown and...
They abolished the Uptick rule in 2007. If it was still in place i think the stock markets would have even lower volaility this year.
Here is the intra day range of the Dow (regular trading hours), excludes overnight gaps, from 2002 to yesterday. Each year is about 260 data...
We need a black swan to spook the markets, otherwise we going to see more and more reduced volatility over the next 12 months. [img] Until...
I been watching the markets since 1999. 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003, second half of 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,2011,2012 were all good trading periods...
Yes the news events can cause panic behaviour for either the longs and shorts, which lasts a day or two. But ideally we need a constant state of...
When i said volatility i really meant 'fear'. There hasn't been much fear in the markets recently. Its easiest to make money when there is...
Almost impossible to predict. Historically October has good volatility which can feed into november. So if things are like 'normal' over the last...
2008 and first half of 2009 were easier markets. Simple breakout systems were printing money. Anyway i give you guys an update : Current...
I laugh when guys brag about only buying new cars cause second had ones have been sat in by some other guy first. But at night they are probably...
Profit factor and worst case drawdowns are my favourite metrics these days. pf>=2.0 and max drawdown of 15% is what i personally aim for....
83 no. But when did he make his first billion (in todays money), he was probably in his fifties. Depending on your age swapping with a...
I wonder what she saw in George Soros the Billionaire that made her decide to marry him :confused:
No! The problem is that Livermore didnt have good money mangement, he doesnt talk much about getting smaller when things are going badly....
Also Boiler Room was released just a few weeks before the March 2000 top.
I presume based on your join date you have only been trading for a couple of years. FOMC meeting decisions of the last few years haven't been...
I dont think it was Seykota who came up with that quote. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
Nasdaq composite bubble high was 5000+. Adjusted for inflation it was probably over 6000 in today money. We still some way from both of those....
8 years is way too small a sample. I mean if you toss a coin 8 times, quite often you will get 6 out of 8 for either tails or heads. How...
This sounds like the final nail in the extraterritorial stuff. But they could still come up with stamp tax on their own exchanges.
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