What can price do? It can only go up or down. Why is it that something so apparently simple defeats all or most new players? First of all you...
This is a good thread. Yes, 10000 hours OR MORE sums it up for any amateur entering this business. It is amazing how many video games there are...
Sociopath is a wrong categorization to use as the attribute that facilitates successful trading. Emotions are demonized at ET because they appear...
There is a cocktail of drugs that is affecting the brain as the result of sexual arousal. Undoubtedly this is necessary theraphy keeping the...
Life in a major sense is an attempt to be on the inside rather than on the outside. It shouldn't take anyone too long to see that who we are and...
You continue to miss the point. Trading costs are not ignored. They are known and are immaterial to successful trading (for example in CL). But in...
Trading costs in trading and in daytrading also are immaterial. If you are not successful you know nothing. The gyrations of price (eg CL)...
Trading costs are immaterial to successful trading and are immaterial for successful day trading also. Using CL the opportunities in each daily...
There is not the slightest doubt that TA works. Its simply a question of the requisite aptitude for success. And in particular when playing in...
If you have a fractured personality you should not even start trading or if already in trading then you should abandon it. Do something else in...
No offence intended but there is lot of huff and puff and plenty of false analogy in the thread openers posting. 'What you can do under...
The issue of holders using the margin funds of clients is generating a lot of hot air. The reasonable and only course of action is to ask...
All of seven years ago, it seems, I suggested the theme of Gershwin's 'Stairway to Paradise' for start-out traders. Begin today! You'll find...
I have many unanswered PMs but within this thread I will try and answer one of those PMs. The underlying assumption is daytrading. Gyrations...
Is Trading Just Guessing? No. Its a question of probabilities. You can construct a methodology giving very high probability signals to trade....
In my time so far at ET I have written posts in defence of the allegations made against such well known individuals as Bill Clinton (the girl...
When Man was a London partnership then based mainly on its historic sugar business it had a pervasive self-satisfied and arrogant attitude....
Relax pal. Take your own advice and you lighten up. Its only a movie. As I noted in my previous post, "There is no harm done for those that...
This thread, as it so often turns out in other threads, is about those who actually know something about markets and the many that don't. The...
Disappointingly, 'Margin Call' was a badly underpaced and forgettable movie. It was watchable (just) but lacked atmosphere, lacked believeability...
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