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Wow. Sounds like you've had some bitter experiences.

Great city to visit, I try to get there once a month. Brilliant from so many viewpoints - architecture, history, food, entertainment, culture etc. etc. What would you especially want to do when you get there?

1. Crossovers do what they do. Traders run into fatal losses when they try to make them do something they can't. Plus two other scenarios - one, if traders blindly enter on a cross: without some filter this is random trading; the other, is if traders buy on a cross and hold until there is an...

That's kind of correct, but also a bit unfair on this useful pattern. No crossovers indicate a trend is about to start. But how could they? But they are pretty good at confirming a trend might have started some time ago. Price isn't necessarily in a trend - rising prices don't automatically...

To summarise, you are unable to show I am wrong because you are unwilling to reveal why and how you are right. So I guess we call this a draw and you go your way and I go mine.

You may be right - what indicators which are predictive of reversals are you meaning?

All indicators lag, but if you're trend-following, you necessarily must choose to use a lagging price formation or a lagging indicator - a trend-following entry can only lag the trend. If price isn't visibly moving in a trend, no indicator will help because they're all lagging, none predictive...

MA crossover trades are OK if you use them in the right environment and in the right way. MA's are generally considered less reliable as intra-day short-term indicators than from daily data. As for the crossover itself, using 3 MA's far better than relying on price plus one MA. So, a fast MA...

Its a worry that the Nasdaq has failed to breach its July high when the Dow and S&P have so this could be a fine trade. I won't be looking to short any of these unless we breach the subsequent swing lows. I hate shorting US indices, especially when they're a mile higher than their 200EMA's.

I'm retired, so I am free to do what I like - wild camping, Nordic walking, cycling, eating out, photography, the occasional film, computer games (currently especially ARMA3), driving, reading (currently especially Shakespeare, the JFK assassination), some "pleasures of the flesh", sightseeing...

I like this. Too many people today think a long-term investment means 3 years, plus they completely ignore dividend income. But I would go further and recommend that parents include transfer of shares to their children on death and stress to those children that they should hold those shares for...

Like it John, we closely agree on technique. For my main position, my 3 mandatory criteria for an uptrend are 20EMA above the 50, 50 sloping upwards and price above the 200. I get out of longs that close below the 20. Actually, I had closed almost all my long-side positions on the US indices...

Just experience with over-pushy car salesmen.

I agree with observation the market is rising. I don't ever try to divine where uptrends will end, I just go long to be with them. And I will get out at any weakness, but what is your definition of a downturn? What is the detail of your exit plan?

Price goes up, price goes down. Trends start, trends end. Ranges start, ranges end. I can't see what you're talking about.

ESMA imposes financial sector regulatory requirements across the EU and different member states interpret, apply and enforce these with local discretion and local differences. In addition, each member state has its own generic consumer protection legislation and contractual legislation, again...

I'm not talking about the EU, I'm responding to your endorsement for a broker based in Bulgaria. Bulgaria may be in the EU but it clearly isn't the EU, all the member states have their specific regulators, legislation, judiciary etc. Its the same in the US, there are national laws re business...

Not pulling dirt, this is acknowledged and evidenced information, should form part of any trader's due diligence before gaily despatching money to a country ranked as even more corrupt than Cyprus. Just because you made an amateur error but haven't had to pay the price yet shouldn't be an...

The company is based in Bulgaria. CIA World Factbook - "Despite a favorable investment regime, including low, flat corporate income taxes, significant challenges remain. Corruption in public administration, a weak judiciary, low productivity, lack of transparency in public procurements, and the...

TA offers a brilliant picture of what happened yesterday, but its not so good at predicting what will happen tomorrow. It works in any situation in which you have a large enough sample group of people who can express an opinion and who have the same objective. It is logical to assume that the...