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I hope the thread's not winding down, as there's a danger we're coming to the wrong conclusions. The frequency of 1-day price drops in the US stock market is over-stated. By some measures the magnitude of 1-day price changes favours the upside. There is also data showing that most significant...

Religions have been a major force for social cohesion during the early development of human societies. However, I cannot help the uncomfortable feeling that members of a given religion seek at some level to regard and treat non-members of their religion, like me, differently. And I don't mean in...

A winning position only becomes a won trade when you close it. That's one trade.

Are you sure that day-trading is the optimum trading approach? I mean, if you start off down the wrong road, then driving more quickly / efficiently down it is still going to get you to the wrong destination. Especially bearing in mind this is a relatively short time period for testing.

All goes to show, if you want to make money don't put your money in a fund And if you're trading your own money, don't do what they do.

Fantastically clever brushwork, interesting facial expression. Radical composition for its time. Otherwise a dull portrait. I'm hoping to get to the Louvre eventually but this painting wouldn't be on my top ten paintings to see there in real life. Anybody have some better suggestions for the tour?

I think we've been all over this already earlier on. In my book, anything that puts forward a belief system concerning life after death, gods, goddesses, demigods, demons, reincarnation and spirits, immortal sentient beings, higher planes of non-corporeal existence and all the rest is a...

I am sure the doctor would be able to call on the latest scientific research to justify his conclusions that the nano-virus existed and caused the illness in question. But this is just a dry debate over conclusive or circumstantial evidence in the scientific or legal context. Religion is...

You're going off the subject now. We're talking about how to define a religion.

Peter - What's a non-certificate degree?

Until an after-life can be proven scientifically, it is taken as a matter of faith. And that's a religion. A person may follow Buddhist principles with regards behaviour. Another might follow principles of behaviour set down by the Jewish faith. But that does not make the one a Buddhist nor the...

Any system of beliefs that encompasses for example reincarnation and progression to an immortal non-corporeal form must be a religion. What else could this beliefs be?

The Buddha may or may not have been a god when he had mortal form but he's certainly a god now and there are multiple deities in Buddhism. Religion is not defined solely as belief in only a single god or a single supreme god.

Buddhist beliefs encompass reincarnation and the existence of deities which are immortal and have an existence beyond our ordinary senses and powers of influence and action beyond the human. Sounds like a religion to me.

I don't know that hedging is widely used by retail traders. I am a long-term forex retail trader. I protect my stand-alone positions with TA-based stop-losses. These would only be hit if the trend I'm following has weakened to such a degree that continuation is the least likely outcome. I also...

They are similar in some ways. They're both founded in beliefs with no evidential basis.

Its refreshing to read this. But whereas I don't think the funds work co-operatively in these situations, I believe they all move in the same way like a shoal of fish. There's no leader, no conscious consensus, its just none of them wants to be outside the shoal.

You're finding it hard to visualise!?!?!? My god, I'm not, and it doesn't look pretty It is optimistic to try to implement a strategy before you fully understand it. Have you thought about running this in a demo account for just a little while?

Come on, who told you that?

Well, you brought up the term ATH. Clearly an ATH has to acknowledge all previous time. Or it would just be an H.