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The Opening Orders Thread
7 fills +$220 4 short, 3 long 14000 shares .8 buy, .4 sell -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
indexes will revert to fair value due to arbitrage on the floor and program buying and selling. Paper will come into the pits when the indexes do not reflect fair value, and buy or sell the futures against the underlying stocks. It will always revert to fair value unless institutions and the... -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
inefficiency does not only mean a stock's price based on fundamentals, there are many inefficiencies of the market, everyday there are times when futures contracts trade at a discount or premium to their fair value based on the prices of them versus the prices of the their underlying index... -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
I will not argue that you never know where a trade will end up, that's where the "skill" lies. The entry is the easy part, getting out is what makes trading so difficult. I will never be able to predict outcomes, no one will. I can however "trade" the markets. Contrary to what many people... -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
I find it offensive that you believe my livelihood and all that i have worked for is based on pure chance and that i am just one of the lucky 5 out of 100,000 people to turn heads more times than tails. The fact is that there are edges, just as you admit to in your first post, in order to take... -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
actually, i am implying that more leverage allows me to take on less risk. it is the strategy you use that determines the risk you take, not the amount of leverage you are given. -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
coming from retail trading and working my way to trading professionally, i believe that the game is very different, you are right, it is less risky (mainly due to leverage), and commission rates are very signifigant differences, however, there are also many other advantages to being a... -
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My first post; some observations on trading.
this is my first post on ET... I have been lurking a little while as I have several friends, including my mentor who run active threads... I am a professional trader, not retail, and i believe that this post along with many others on this site are ridiculous. I'm not going to try to convince...