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I keep a simple log of each trade so I can look back at performance the following month. But it really is simple - dates of entry and exit, amount lost/gained, entry signal/pattern, with trend/against trend, rationales for stop placement. Early each month I look back over the trades closed the...

Nobody knows 100% if price will rise, and even if 99% of members responded and said "Yes", that shouldn't be taken as a 99% probability that price will rise. The question is how to take advantage of a price rise? Secondary to that is how to manage the risk. I had thought of putting a buy order...

Its possibly guff.

Nobody needs to watch this stuff. People who say this stuff are selling stuff to people who are foolish enough to watch stuff like this stuff. That's enough stuff.

Humpy was talking about both - he said, "It is high time the Catholic Church faced up to the contraception issue. No longer is it viable for so many couples to have 10+ children with the church's encouragement. Mass migration is an ever present issue and it can only get worse. Why should the 1st...

I know! It can't be true. Can it?

I never believe anyone who says that Gold or such and such is a safe haven. In the markets, there's no such thing as a safe haven. Things that are safe to buy are things that are going up: until they stop going up and start going down.

I gather the dinner is the important part, apparently it must include turkey. Some other things are traditional, some I have no idea what they are - riced potatoes winter squash cornbread pumpkin pie (this is a dessert!) sweet potato pie eggnog (this is a drink!)

None of this proves hell exists, nor anything supernatural. There are things we can't explain on any scientific basis given current knowledge and skills, but we're at an early point on that particular spectrum so its just a matter of time to coin a phrase.

I hate the markets right now. I bet on the indices "directly" rather than via equities and I do not like shorting them, they have an inherent buoyancy that is always about to re-assert itself and the big players are naturally bullish on US stocks - what else could they be? For a long-term...

PS: On Warren Buffet. Most of his success, recognition and fortune has come from acquisition of dominant shareholdings, leading to Board seats and control of companies. His model isn't really comparable to any private retail trader or investor I can think of. However, its quite possible he...

Agreed, its a grey area. And the guys who think they're investing fall into this confusion and think everything will be OK if you just hold on long enough. Which would be fine if it were true and if they were able to stomach the losses and if time and bills etc. didn't catch up with them. But...

The definition is going to be unfamiliar but its not unique. In the 19th century, that was the majority purpose of buying shares so I'm applying an old fashioned definition, not a radical new one. But maybe you see my logic. Buying with the intention of selling later today I am sure we would...

The dumb shareholders who didn't sell were still dumb. They had not the first clue in their heads that prices would rebound so energetically. If you're going to buy shares you have to decide if you're an investor or a trader. The investor never sells: they take the dividend income and pass the...

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There are plenty of things in the universe that have definition and which plainly don't exist. Heaven is only defined by hearsay. You might accept hearsay, I don't. The level of detail in the hearsay and the number of people who accept it doesn't change the fact its still hearsay.

"Balanced portfolio". I love that. Sounds like a term brokers use to get people to keep buying more shares and more shares. Also sounds low-risk and professional. Like calling traders investors.

Yes............. if God's a scientist.

When the stock indices are bullish, I trade them directly, so going long on individual bullish stocks would effectively be adding to the position size, which could take my capital risk outside my % tolerance. If I did want to increase bullish gains, it would be more efficient simply to increase...

I already told you, if proof of an afterlife and all that stuff emerges I will be forced to change my mind. Which I promise to do, immediately and without reservation.