Recent content by Trader R

https://theconversation.com/guaranteed-to-lose-money-welcome-to-the-bizarro-world-of-negative-interest-rates-119994

For futures, using your definition of "cheap," the cheapest markets to trade are the bond market and the S&P. For spot, the cheapest market is the S&P 500 ETF, SPY.

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Two of my fav's in addition to Market Wizards mentioned above: - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre (1923) - Speculation as a Fine Art by Dickson G. Watts (1965)

I would disagree with your premise that, "it cost nothing to trade stocks with many brokers." True - there are no commissions upfront, but there are still costs associated with trading (slippage, bid-ask spread, HFT, routing). The reduction in commissions will likely result in a proportional...