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I don't think any serious trader believes candlesticks or candlestick patterns move prices, or has ever said so. It is the buying/selling activities of the major market participants which move prices, and the results of these are made visible as individual candlesticks which can be viewed in...

Well, you say now you don't want to talk about the origins of the religion and yet you were the one who took exception to my characterisation of the way it started. Alright, I won't mention it again if you don't. But I hope you've made your ruddy mind up on this now. You can juggle with numbers...

But it did start off as a highly confrontational and discriminatory religion. There's no denying historical fact with regards the life of Muhammad. It was confrontational and it still is, perhaps more so, in the fact that its adherents are confrontational and discriminatory. Other religions...

They don't have a current monopoly, the Buddhists in Myanmar are doing a pretty good job in Rakhine, but the majority of religiously motivated deaths and the bulk of religiously motivated persecution and oppression is Islamic. Sure, the Christian religion has had its weaker episodes, but I...

You're talking to the wrong person about Christianity and Matthew and righteousness, I don't believe in gods or bible verses. There isn't any objective way to compare the values or qualities or truths of two religions. One might depict a universe created by a single omnipotent male deity...

Looks good. (I couldn't have told anyone before watching this trailer who Dick Cheney was so I might not have time to go and watch this.)

Islam has not been hijacked by IS or any current Islamic leader or even recent Islamic leader. It started off as a highly confrontational and discriminatory religion and has only became more so over the centuries. It is locked in a spiral of exclusionism and extremely biased behaviours.

Yes, it was patronising to me, so I rate it as patronising. The celebrities performed their scripts which were actually pretty good summaries of what they had to explain, but their use was gimmicky and just looked like celeb endorsements, a string of infomercials, for the very movie they were...

Patronising, gimmicky, self-righteous. Over-use of direct to camera monologues by characters. Inexcusable inserted celebrity explanations of terms. I hate the attitude that suggests its OK for Hollywood to make a movie that makes a profit but which movie decries other people for doing their jobs...

Tried to watch The Big Short this pm. Great story, but really really annoying intrusive direction. Christian Bale was fun to watch but I couldn't even finish the whole thing, dumped it after about 30 minutes. Can directors be imprisoned for over-directing?

Actually, I live in dear old Devon where it hardly ever snows. But wouldn't snow tyres be a better answer?

Sound strategy. If you can't (or won't) go short, I'm not sure you can be called a full "trader".

Fantastic analysis of the almost sexual attraction of calling tops.

Yes, I have started experimenting with trading off single candlesticks - set a buy at the high and a sell at the low, stop-loss is the other extreme. Actually, I favour setting only a buy or sell according to the slope of the 13SMA, but it would be easy to filter the order direction by eye...

Bear markets and tops are really important for one type of trader - those who can't (or won't) go short. That said, I avoid going short on stocks and stock indices when the equity markets are in bearish mood as the volatility involved in riding a downtrend long-term is just too painful.

NZD, CHF, then USD. But that could all change by this time next week, two weeks ago AUD was up there too.

I don't accept that signals work because they're popular and fail when they lose their popularity. In reality, this was never a good signal in the first place, it was just generating wins the way a coin toss can generate extended series of wins - even a useless trading strategy like this can...

Absolutely. I just follow the rule that never fails - "Trade what you see, not what you think". That, plus everyone needs to make one decision as to whether they're trading or investing. Too many people think they're a trader while their stocks are rising and then an investor when they're falling.

I hope so, my (latest) Dow Buy just triggered.

I did look into it, thinking at first it was my only way forward while remaining in SB. But I would need to show a 500k investment portfolio. If I had 500k to invest, I wouldn't. In any case, I didn't find yet the restricted leverage has made any practical difference.