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    Vote: The best virtue in trading: Good things take time.

    The best virtue in trading: Good things take time.
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    Trying to start my career as a trader

    http://village.albourne.com
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    50% Annual Returns

    For trading currencies with small maxdd, 15% would be excellent, imo.
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    Trading is Gambling. You know it! Be honest

    According to the above, you must be gambling, if not kidding. :D
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    Transition from Beginner to Pro Trader. How?

    Perhaps: 1) first you learn how to lose money 2) then you learn how not to lose money 3) then you learn how to make other traders lose money 4) ...
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    Trading is Gambling. You know it! Be honest

    This's exactly the point I am making with those words. A trader can trade like either a casino-owner or a casino-player. :)
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    Trading is Gambling. You know it! Be honest

    Clearly there is BIG difference between casinos and players. Casinos are capital-intensive and mathematics/statistics-based businesses, whereas players merely gamblers. :D
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    Trading is Gambling. You know it! Be honest

    Probably the whole book of "Trading in the Zone" by Mark Douglas is about "Learning to trade an edge like a Casino (page 189)". :)
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    50% Annual Returns

    As trading is so hard, besides risking money, anything less than 50% p.a. return is perhaps not worth doing, imo. :D
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    Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    My Gambling is Trading! :D
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    Trading longer time frames

    Certainly true! :)
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    A Good Guess

    The details of your long-running consistently profitable trading strategy can be very secretive. So according to your estimation, do you have any rough idea as how many % of your trading strategy have been openly discussed by others on ET or elsewhere publicly?
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    Why correlation of EURUSD and USDCHF is usually high?

    Many thanks. That probably should be quite reasonable fundamanetal reasons, besides other technical trading issues.
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    What is the best instrument for retail fx?

    I think I'd have a pretty good answer about "What is the best instrument for retail fx?". Which instrument safely makes you more money faster within your capability and strategy? :D
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    Why correlation of EURUSD and USDCHF is usually high?

    Now I can remember a reading long time ago about: 1. The banks in Switzerland own a lot of USD deposited by wealthy foreigners. This produces very high correlation. 2. People owning US dollars will switch/convert USD to Switzerland as CHF if USD is getting weak/ strong. This makes...
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    How do you feel?

    Perhaps everyone has his /her own vision about trading as a business/ profession. Among so many possible/ available views, here is one of them: The process/outcome and the capability/knowledge of Forecasting. Just like some other Forecasting professions such as: - Forecasting weather...
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    Why correlation of EURUSD and USDCHF is usually high?

    Thanks for the informative article. Can we make money by trading the spread of them, as they are so closely correlated for already a long long time? It would be so obvious Yes, if we understand the fundamental factors well enough.
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    Why correlation of EURUSD and USDCHF is usually high?

    If that is the case, why should they both have a value greater than 1, rather than one is 1+ (say 1.5) another should be less than 1 (say 0.67)?
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    Why correlation of EURUSD and USDCHF is usually high?

    Why is it negatively correlated, rather than positively, like GBP?
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