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The price chart shows the recent buying bias or recent selling bias amongst the investors involved. With a sufficiently large group of investors, you get a pretty reliable indication as to whether more have been recently either buying or more selling. Pretty much the same when you have a pool of...

If you're not based within the EU, you might be unaware that brokers based here must now publish the %ages of losing clients on their books. The average looks about 77%.

You pretend to misunderstand but the problem of battery life and range will stall the electric car project unless its solved. And this guy isn't going to solve it, he's selling lemons. Anyway, I think I'm allowed to be biased now and then. I also wouldn't let Mark Zuckerberg in my house. Or any...

I know nothing about Tesla (except their cars spend longer charging than driving). But I wouldn't trust Elon Musk as far as I could spit.

I never use any business channel. They are only reporting what my charts already printed, plus stuff that may never happen, plus some half-baked or overheard theory as to why prices went this way or that way. The only input any newsflow has into my trading might be working out if I should stay...

But can you show what you're talking about on a chart, from a year when the market behaves a certain standard way, to another when it doesn't?

Granted, as has been posted already,price and volatility vary over time. Trends and ranges form and die. But a decent TA-based strategy acknowledges these variations and adjusts, commonly by reducing trade "signals", or reducing positions or stops or eliminating trading altogether. Strategies...

Maybe some of it. When I used to buy shares I was a member of the UK Shareholders Association. As well as regular round tables on potential good investments they would regularly organise visits to listed company HQ's or locations. These were often hosted by the CEO, always by Board-level...

"the markets have changed" is usually an excuse for the inevitable failure of a half-baked strategy. Even a poor strategy can generate a lucky run of results but blaming its failure on some invisible but so powerful market change is lame. Leaving aside the tech indices, it would be great to be...

The spreadbetting firm I use have said that at any one time about 78% of their clients are consistently losing. They said this is what they had also seen in studies by the University of Taiwan and CME/CBOT. In this case, the ratio is a snap-shot but this is a more rigorous way to assess...

Warren Buffet's history might help you if you want to replicate what he did and the way he did it, but they're not much of a guide to TA-based short-term private retail trading.

CFD trading is legal and highly regulated in the UK, as is its variation, spreadbetting. Both have low deposit requirements, very small minimum position sizes, SB has no tax implications. In terms of TA/FA, neither is any different from each other or from trading using any type of forex broker...

Makes complete sense in the long run. If you do what he does in the same way he does it you'll get the same result, 5-10% per year (but not every year). It is precisely to avoid this disappointing long-term index-mimicking performance that short-term trading was born: so you hold cash when the...

Not banned from T2W or BP I think......... but should have been.

With some "brokers" in some countries, you actually need to be sure they are brokers in the first place, not just some bank account with a fancy name and PO Box address.....

Ooh! controversial......

So USD/JPY is not in a tradable uptrend? Of course, it depends how you define "trend" and "tradable" so it could be under your parameters, you are correct. But then it might just be the parameters that are wrong?

I certainly do. As I see it, its easy to assume the weather will be hotter in July than in June. But its very hard to be sure that the temperature in the next 2 hours will reach 21.6 degrees but not reach 21.9 degrees.

I know its horrible when the market reverses down just when you've gone long. But which is worse, market dropping like a stone and your red numbers getting bigger and bigger or market dropping like a stone and you're in cash, waiting for the bounce?

For me this is the real puzzle about xela's fake persona. I've seen her posts across 3 forums over more than 3 years and never once saw her seeking money. We "liked" each other's posts and dialogued so much that she would have reached out to me for sure if she was after a financial reward. I did...