Search results

Believe it or not, but there's crooks on Wall Street!

I did not refer to his current trading. I'm sure he did well with his belief system when he started this thread. Rather, I had his future trades in mind, the ones he'll make when OPEC regains control, after the current downtrend is over... And as we are already dwelling into fundamental...

"Trade what you see, not what you wish"

Thanks to everyone for all the interesting contributions! I have contemplated a lot, and I think I have found the right solution: currently, I'm simply trading too big. I'll therefore scale back the individual positions, and instead diversify the unchanged edge across much more trades...

Sounds like a strange chinese fortune cookie you had there...

Hi everyone, I'm starting this thread because I am interested to learn whether someone here encountered and solved a similar mental obstacle as I am currently dealing with. I have traded for several years so far, and am about to start something on an institutional level. This means, that...

"Two is one, and one is none."

Whoever is interested may drop me a PM, including what you're looking for and some of your background. I'll reply as soon as I can, but don't expect me to arrange something for you.

Yes.

Yes, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYMVyY4naXs

I worked in a retail brokerage for a short time. They had excellent commissions for futures, as well as good trading software. Still, 95% of the futures traders they had lost money. It was quite interesting to talk to the remaining 5% :cool:

I was asking myself this very same question as well. After a lot of contemplation, I had the following epiphany: It doesn't matter. It's not the amount of traders that move a stock up or down, but rather supply and demand. One guy clicking his mouse somewhere on the planet can have a...

Update: The diamond pattern has not been confirmed, and the 11.000 resistance has been broken. We are now approaching the old 2000' all time highs.

"Trade what you see, not what you wish"

I remember watching a german news channel on the morning of Sept. 12th, where they interviewed the head of currency trading of commerzbank in Frankfurt. That guys eyes told you he didn't sleep at all, and at one point of the interview, he lost his composure and shouted into the camera that he...

Technical analysis allows you to become a one eyed among the blind.

Well, as you may already know, there's only three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't :D

The 3 very best books I've read on trading during the past 9 years: - Rules of the Trade, David S. Nassar - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefèvre - Against the Gods, Peter L. Bernstein - Trading in the Zone, Michael Douglas - Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Thomas N. Bulkowski...

YANHGD

Three econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first econometrician fired, but missed, by a metre to the left. The second econometrician fired, but also missed, by a metre to the right. The third econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it...