Recent content by Branos

The biggest advantage of trading for me - space for wandering and freedom of choice. You aren't limited whatsoever, you have all the instrument within the reach of your hands if you choose a good broker. You educate yourself, you explore all things daily, and it's really impactful both from the...

Scalping isn't something that is difficult to master. It requires a lot of patience and quick reaction, and I don't belittle the difficulty of mastering it. It's indeed complicated as it demands tons of energy and extreme level of emotions control. I've never tried scalping but have a couple...

Undoubtedly, a micro account would be much better for a beginner than a demo trading. Real profits and losses teach much better than virtual ones. However, I never traded on cent accounts. I shifted from a demo account to a real non-cent one. I think it would have been much easier to learn if I...

Hahaha, nice one. I do think that smoking weed during breaks is okay, if you want to calm down a little bit. Nevertheless, doing it during trading session isn't beneficial for your trading activity. You know, any kind of substance whether it's alcohol or weed will distort reality perception...

If FED announcements were everyday then it would be so much fun:)

It’s not as straightforward as you have described it. Usually the high yield ETFs, as any other high yield securities, are too risky. In the ETFs realm I think you can see such yield percentages on real estate ETFs. And you can imagine the robustness of those ETFs by yourself. More stable ETFs...

I can imagine! I felt the difference right off the bat, as soon as I opened the first deal. Properly coded and structured trading bot would definitely make the most of it. Maybe that’s the primary reason only institutional investors can deploy such software. Who knows.

I never trade on Fridays 13th. It’s not any kind of superstition, but my tradition. On such days I relax and watch horror movies.

You can’t ignore losses in your trading. You can’t order yourself not to care about it. Negative emotions tend to take over even the strongest men. However, if you restrict your losses, it won’t be devastating for your depo. It’s impossible to avoid losses completely in trading, but losses can...

A lot of people here with a lot of experience and knowledge already shared the importance of discipline. I would like to put a huge emphasis on the concept again. It is good that you have mentioned in the beginning you followed your system to the every single last detail and you were up at...

That was my point earlier in the discussion! Those things are not that interconnected. You need to see a bigger economic picture to make the right assumptions. On top of that, one particular economic cycle is totally different from others.

Pretty much so. Nowadays the situation with the Federal reserve and interest rates is quite straightforward. Meaning that until the inflation will reach the desired value, the Fed will hike rates almost certainly. Therefore Trade.com DMA, which has an abundance of the U.S. bonds, can bring profits.

Because if the central bank raises interest rates, the bonds’ yield rises also. In this case the next bonds that are released by the government have higher yield right? So the bonds with lower yield have less demand on the market, thus you have to lower the price to sell them. That’s what...

True. The Bank of Japan is not bothered by the national currency devaluation. But the flip side of this is that Japan government bonds’ yield is not very appealing. For example Japan 10Y government bonds yield is 0.242% compared to 3.974% of the U.S.

I don’t know about that really. Especially in today’s economic environment when almost every developed country raises interest rates to suppress inflation. And fixed income assets prices are inversely proportional to the interest rates. Maybe it makes sense to wait until the US interest rates...