Yes, you can study for two years and know 'everything' about the market inside and out. But, the real learning starts when seemingly every...
I don't believe longer time-frame trading is any easier in this regard, since instead of losing days you now will have losing weeks or months,...
You already know the answer to your question. The only way to find out is to do it. Whatever obstacles you will face with your real account...
If your entries are half-decent on some momentum, you may want to look into splitting that 2% initial risk into two trades: take one off the table...
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I trend trade with pyramiding at fixed price increments along the trend. Each pyramid position has its own stop-loss level so that positions don't...
lol you beat me to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRh0Xc0GPg&feature=related wow, is this amateur hour or what "do you think interest rates will stay where...
these questions about what is meaningful and exciting to do for a living come about because times are cushy and we live in a bloated economy, so...
The only thing long term charts (daily +) offer is that the spread (if that's what your broker charges) is less in relation to the movement of...
I occassionally run Tradestation on a a macbook 2ghz using vm fusion and it works great even in emulation mode, and even in their Unity mode...
er2 is getting hammered....wow
Just keep in mind that backtesting shows a fixed 1 pt target with a 1 pt stop loss for a 15-min ORB strategy is a losing proposition (ER2 over...
Yes, major in pure math at the undergrad level if you can.
You should open a real account at Oanda for say $1,000 and practice on that instead You may be developing bad habits trading a sim account...
I suggest getting as high a degree as you can (at least a masters) in a hard quant field, or an MBA from a top school if you can get in You can...
I use Tradestation via Parallels, and I don't notice any difference from when running TS on my native Windows machine If you use bootcamp, the...
http://europe.vault.com/nr/main_article_detail.jsp?article_id=9865422&cat_id=0&ht_type=1...
That's kinda funny actually... I trade the er2 on an intraday trend basis, and I constructed my method to either take the original stop-out or...
The problem with that is that if your trading plan is a 'living' thing you'll constantly make changes to it, and you will doubt it all the time....
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