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I sometimes wish I wasn't so honest because if I was a crook I'd have made millions and millions by now. There literally is a never ending supply of guilible people in this world who will believe anything if you tell them there's easy money to be made. (Doesn't matter if the country in...

A good example of why trading/investing is so hard - there's normally excellent reasons one can make for both the upside and downside and only after the even was it obvious which view to take.

Well, what is means is that markets do their best to mess the majority around, so find those areas on a chart and trade them. A simplified signal would be to buy into an uptrend when there's evidence that many longs are being stopped out and breakout shorts entering. The resulting move to...

Another one perhaps - Design a strategy where the emphasis is on taking losses, not profits. By expecting losses you can overcome a big mental issue, being wrong/losing money. Then you can trade without fear. Of course, the losses should be kept really small, repeat REALLY small. As for...

The obvious is basically this - Decent profitable moves (at least 10% in stocks) tend to unfold from price structures that minimise maximum participation.

The FTSE futures boys must be licking their chops at all the spec business that's going to be coming their way :)

This board is now total crap. It seems 75% of the posts are now bogus, they're all the same, 2-3 lines at the most to try and get some sort of thread going. I used to like this Forum, now it's been ruined by the crappy paid posts.

If you like being 'entrepreneurial' then trading is not for you.

Is anyone not an 'entrepreneur' these days?

There was no real 'obvious' just a load of tips and hints, some good, others no so. Basically - - if the majority lose, try to do the opposite - The majority tend to learn from the textbooks so again, try to use that to your advantage - Trade small size, especially when starting out -...

Guys, first post here. A friend emailed me the link to this thread and I've been plagging away at it over the last week or so. Just wanted to say thanks to the main contributers, NYSE, TO and RN :D Yes, the thread has been maddening at times, but I think as far as I'm concerned it...