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No. ___ Something To Think About... Question: If you want to start betting on fair 50/50 coin flips, can you jiggle your bets around and have positive expectation (sometimes referred to as Edge)? Answer: No. ___ If you are engaged in professional gambling/trading/etc, think about: Edge...

Doubtful any truly big winner will do this. Few big winning professional traders are fulltime ET posters, as an aside.

As a retail trader, I suggest you find another area of interest. Some games should not be played. You are up against significant reoccurring frictional costs, informational and speed disadvantages, as well as facing deft and speedy algos from very sharp firms. Seriously... we live in a big...

Why do you think you have a meaningful edge day trading?

Lol.

Hidden Cost of Free Trading? $34 Billion a Year, Study Says https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hidden-price-no-fee-trading-160021808.html

Retail option trading? Look for a better path. The reoccurring frictional costs are large and you are up against speedy and strong algos.

Yes, you want to be around people who are better than you. Yes, having a concrete edge is where it's at. Not easy to find a winning trader to take you under their wing and there are are a lots of posers. . Apply to Suesqhanna International Group. Probably you will be turned down but maybe not...

Arbitrage in the strictest sense of the word would be an almost reckless transaction. With stock market deal arbitrage you hopefully get rid of meaningful market risk, industry risk and stock risk. However, you are left with a new risk: Deal Risk! Quite a few deal-arb guys have blown up or...

How did you know?

Thoughts on STLA as an investment? Thoughts on their CEO?

Game plans are not enough. What if I had a game plan for boxing Mike Tyson? Keeping loses smaller is not enough, you need and edge that you can explain and win with. Example: Keeping losses small will not allow you to beat roulette because you have a disadvantage on your bets. ____ What...

Almost everyone wins on the simulators but in real ife you don't get those good fills or at least not for any size. Shouldn't you at least practice trading 100 shares live for awhile and see if you can make money? Why (now) do you think your trades will have positive expectation? What are...

You need to say why you think you have an edge (positive expectation) on your trades. Why in the world do you think you can beat both the competition and frictional costs of trading? I can tell from your writing that you probably have negative expectation on your trades but why do you think...

Hustles! Hustles! Hustles! Hedge funds, as a group, are.hudtkes as they figure to underperform reasonable benchmarks, even on a risk adjusted basis. The main reason the group has underperformed and figures to continue underperforming is that their skill can not outrun their fees...

How do investment banks figure to do durring stagflation, if the U.S. ends up with stagflation.

Exactly right. Your goal should be to be around people who are better than you and add value. One idea is for you is to apply for a trading position with SIG, Suesqhanna and Group. If accepted, good things, including training, figure to happen for you. Best wishes. ____ You made a sharp...

Gurus-,for-hire are mostly hustlers who used to win or who never won. A few do successfully frunt run their customers. Your goal should be to develop a personal relationship with a winning trader and add value. Good luck with this as most successful day traders are algos, but I gave you the...

True. And don't count ones that front run their customers either.

Congress is not exempt from traditional Insider trading rules governing non-public company specific information, such as a not yet released earnings beat by Tesla. The potential problem is that there are other informational advantages available to many members of Congress.