So where's our Spanish89 now? Enjoying la Dolce Vita with the truckload of cash he made on his brilliant trade, I guess. Enjoy the Champagne,...
ZH aka "Dogmatic trading"
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Elec, Agree.
Spin, Now that's talking. Finally, another pearl of wisdom. I think you nail it here. Not losing is the first thing, I believe that's Warren...
What do you mean "make a market"? If your question is "Can I trade retail with (or despite?) my MM experience?", I guess the response is "time...
OK, let me clarify couple of things: 1) My FX experience is a totally different ballgame: I was in the market maker business. We pocketed the...
Big D, Noted, thanks.
Big D, Thanks, sounds like good advice (except, that is, for the period May to September last year, where whoever would do that would have paid...
As I said in previous posts, I have been a new trader since September 1980, except from October 2002 until last month, where I wasn't a trader at...
1a2b, Not familiar with DOM but my understanding of order flow is that it gives you not only the number of buy/sell, but the distinction...
Ninna, Agree on trailing stops. My only problem with those is getting whipsawed on upward (or downward) spikes that move your trailer too close...
Thank you all for all this. Advice galore really! First of all I need to dispel a wrong impression: I do not start trading from scratch, like it...
Hi Galvin, Did you read Taleb's books? You should. Plus, what kind of margin does your broker require for selling naked puts? Best, TJ
Nkhoi, Clearer with the chart. Jackie, I'm thinking If you guess 50/50 and have 8 point TP and 4 point SL, then Ninna has a point: you...
Thanks Nkhoi, Noted. Not sure I follow,though. Example with numbers would be most welcome. TJ
Thanks much NoD, I PM replied. Looks great, really! Ninna, I take your point that skewing PT/SL skews the occurrences as well. But doesn't that...
Agreed. IB has a paper trading account going with the real one. So will use the paper trading for large trade and smaller size on the real deal....
Hi TheP, Started on Thursday. Just trying to get other traders' $.02 as I go on.
Hi Ninna, Thx for the advice. I was thinking (naively?) on short time frames who's got a consistent edge? Not sure even Goldman Sachs knows (or...
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