Im a bit pissed I had a 3 lot position this morning and took a 30 pip profit instead of riding it out, but then again the report could have came...
Damn another huge upward move in EUR/USD and GBP/USD
Thats the benefit of being in the london time zone, or living in europe, 0300-0400ET is 8/9am here, by no means early in the day. I got up at 8am...
After watching "Trader" with Paul Tudor Jones, there is a scene where he wakes up at 5am to trade currency/gold. Anyone do this and find it...
UK Gdp fell below estimates and it still rallied over 100 pips after the brief drop, good thing I swallowed my pride and bet against my original...
Nice call @romik , personally I bet the other way and shorted at the bottom, good thing I didn't take my usual position size :cool: Do you reckon...
The thing is this guy is a math major, he runs pure strategy no emotions convinced he has some sort of a disorder, plays 6 tables at once and runs...
Almost all CFD and or FX brokers will give you that amount of leverage outside of the US of course.
Almost all CFD and FX brokers outside of the US, you can get 20x leverage on some stocks here also through CFDS.
What is the highest amount of leverage against your total account you ever used in a single trade and was it profitable or not ? Back when I...
I think great traders make great poker players. Great poker players don't always make great traders. A number of guys in the NFL can run under...
Discretionary, but ya I will commit a portion of my funds to an exotics strategy and see how I perform over the next few weeks
The transaction cost of the spread doesn't eat into my profit. A 0.2 pip spread on 300pip profit trade doesn't affect me. Even if it were 5 pips...
Hey Marketsurfer can I get your opinion on exotic/less traded markets ? Do you think there is more opportunity/less competition in less traded...
I made most of my money solely trading EUR,GBP,JPY,AUD,CAD against the dollar. I assume that there would be a large number of amateurs and...
I understand that, but this guy is deluded into thinking you can do HFT on an acer laptop. I would think that you would need supercomputers and a...
Some guy who heard about my vast profits trading said it was all gambling because "HFT and algorithms make all the money" Does anyone agree with...
In trading terms why would anyone want to bet against the herd ? If everyone is buying AMZN one day and it is rallying why would you go against...
I agree I set aside a few k of my account to test a short term strategy but even though it was profitable I was way more susceptible to emotions...
Pretty much how I trade any perceived opportunities, no point scratching 15% a year unless you have millions in your account.
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