Recent content by Alexis

Depends. 2 days for some, 6 months for others. Anything between day-trading and long-term, really.

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Hey everyone, No, Gricham jones isn't a broker at all, but an advisory company with some trading related activities for clients (mainly family offices in GCC countries) So, as Sarah said, not prop. Still might be a good place for people passionate about markets, though.

Are there really individual traders reaching hundreds of trades a day?? with retail platform and routing????

It's probably "Excellent my friend", but a little confusing too

interesting

Started in 2004 somewhere. 10k.

Well, trend formation is one of the (too rare) features that differenciate market price distribution from random distribution. You really should treat it as a friend... thx, Alex

Start realising how close to random markets behave. (I said "close to") And then you'll start fearing them. Overtrading will then become the least of your concerns.

Hi, Why don't you use your historical drawdown?

200% would only apply to very short term (and very lucky) traders. With such a short timeframe, 2009 was not any better or worse than 2008 or 2007

the statistical notion of expectancy might not be exactly what you need. Take it this way: %Win x Avg win > %Loss x Avg Loss where %= percentage of and Avg = average win or average loss, the sum of all your gains/losses divided by their number This general formula is both simple...

let's call this """interesting"""" as a fiction

Bought it, read it. A fantastic book for beginners, probably the best out there. A must-read for any newbie in the business, really.

they're expensive. But if you don't scalp, cheapers competitors are ok