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This would be the most fascinating thread we've ever read - if we were in North Korea. What point are you making exactly?

With most conventional investments being long-term, wouldn't that make for a very dull forum? I mean, you find the investment type that suits your requirements and you report back in 10 years how it went.......

Actually I don't get my UK state pension until I'm 66. But leaving that aside, it is the capitalist system which provides the funds for a state pension and the all the necessary resources for me to (hopefully) reach that age. What we need is a bit more capitalism.

Dictatorships are not inherently non-socialist, but nor are they inherently fascist or communist, they can arise from any or none of these. The distinction between a socialist state and a communist state is pretty thin as socialism is a transitory condition en route to communism. In practice...

Its odd that we've never heard anyone unfortunate enough to be living in a socialist state consoling themselves that at least it wasn't communist. Its an old saying that the US is capitalist and European countries are socialist. In fact, both have borrowed elements of the other system when it...

Socialism worked really well for the ordinary people in so many places - USSR, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, eastern Europe, China, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia.............

8 of the 66 one-day rises over 5.0% since 1900 were in the last 20yrs: in order of severity: 13/10/08 28/10/08 23/03/09 13/11/08 21/11/08 24/07/02 10/03/09 29/07/02 4 were in the very volatile period immediately after the 2008 start of the global financial crisis and 2 were right after the...

Just 3 were in the last 20 years, but that's above average for such a long time period. The 3 most recent one-day "crashes" were No.13: 15/10/08 -7.9% No.15: 01/12/08: -7.7% No.16: 09/10/08: -7.3% Just outside the 20yr range was No.19: 27/10/97: -7.2% Out of interest, No.1 was Black Monday...

Seems like the data was claimed by Cambridge Analytica to be for academic purposes only and Facebook wouldn't have allowed it to be passed on if they had known this. They say. Also that CA offered to smear politicians.

This is something I have put up before but its a fair (and important) question. Yes, such a severe crash through my stop on the 7 overlaid positions would be a serious loss but it would not be not 70%. Assuming I started the 7 trades with a first trade at 5000, with a stop 100 lower at 4900...

I trade through spreadbetting so my money calculations are simple. Contracts mean nothing to me I'm afraid and I've no idea what 64x leverage means for management of the trade. When I open the first trade, say in oil, I set a stop-loss behind the entry price which will get me out for a set %...

Whose work was it which showed that we absolutely need driverless cars?

Well there's some consolation that it's not us traders to blame. Does anyone think we could scrape together 3.3 billion?

Unfortunately, it seems 90% of traders are unable to do what you say. But if do you have a winning strategy, you don't need the markets to stay open longer, you're already making money. What traders should then be doing with a winning strategy is enabling it to work better for them so they can...

No. You cannot possibly believe this. In case you're serious, a losing strategy doesn't start winning just because you use it more.

You should really reconsider henry, regulation here is a lot tighter than it used to be.

Its very uncommon for UK-based spreadbetting firms (who are often referred to as the lowest form of financial life) to penalise profitable long-term spreadbetters. However, the firms find it difficult and expensive to hedge against large short-term positions across their client base so they...

You mean you're actually still long?!?!?

No, its unimportant, the only important things are to protect and grow account capital. I think I'd better burden you with an example and I hope this helps. Trade 1 is opened at 5000. TA is used to find the SL level, and let's say this is miraculously 100pts below at 4900. Set buy order at...

My risk management objective is simply to protect account capital. Only the last trade to be opened incurs a loss from account capital, but the prior trades pay for that.