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SL is stop-loss - an order set at a price at which your position will be closed to prevent further loss. Always always use a SL. TP is a take profits order - an order set to close the position in profit and avoid any future loss of profit. Use a TP if your strategy and TA demand it. Use a TSL...

Other British artists more or less successful as artists but highly efficient as self-publicists using art would include - Gilbert & George Antony Gormley Damien Hirst Tracey Emin Basquiat, Kapoor and Koons might qualify.

Banksy's art has a far stronger role to play in depicting his relationship with the art business than it does concerning either art or the ostensible subjects of his art. What he has to say about the art business is unsubtle and laboured, and is tainted by the financial gains his works accrue...

It was widely reported last year here in the UK that there were more Sierra Leonean doctors practicing in Manchester, England, than in the whole of Sierra Leone. Such stories crop up regularly. Happily we no longer plunder the rain forests for timber or elephant herds for ivory, but I wonder...

The way clinically trained people from the rest of the world are sponged up by more advanced countries is a coming scandal. This will be a far more urgent and acute health crisis for the under-developed world than covid or climate change.

Two or three time-frames would be standard. The main time-frame is the one in which you identify chart set-ups and patterns, and across which you plan your entry and holding time. It is definitely wise to use a longer time-frame to confirm that your projected trade is not going to seriously...

I had two game-changers, they're both obvious and obviously related to each other., The first was that its pointless trying to trade by buying company shares when the stock markets are bearish. The second was that every trade works better when it follows the major trend.

"................perhaps more based on dividends, total returns etc. rather than share price, let alone market index strength."

I've set out the line of thought I would follow if I was investing in company shares on a multi-decade horizon. Share price is not the unique concern on that basis.

I have seen it is extremely rare for blue chips to become worthless over-night. There is an argument for culling poor performers, but on a multi-decade horizon this should be perhaps more based on dividends, total returns etc. rather than share price, let alone market index strength. I'm going...

I rate CAD as second-strongest of the major currencies right now, but NZD is not (yet?) correspondingly weak. CAD is a decent buy but a short on EUR/CAD or GBP/CAD would be better.

Develop a system and define the trade decision criteria and decision points. Map each trade against these milestones. A good trade is one that was opened, managed and closed according to your strategy. Until you reach this level of perception, your wins and losses will be random.

There's no argument that he US stock market indices are weak right now, and there is always the possibility this weakness could develop into something far more negative. But the decision where to hold or place money has to be tied in to the duration of your position. If you're holding US blue...

Focus on how to lose little avoids the real question, which is how to win more than you lose in trading. Both objectives of controlling losses and ensuring wins need attention and a failure to manage either will result in failure in trading.

Yes please, more like the above.

This is another poster who uses phraseology such as "work with Amarkets". This wording is common with regards this firm and rare with regards all the other firms. This makes it clear that Amarkets are probably asking people to post recommendations all over the internet using a suggested...

Actually, perhaps I expressed myself badly, I was possibly in a hurry. You should say more about all the points in your recent stuff. And post more frequently.

I only take trades that follow trends which like you I can see on the chart. In my chosen time-frame I look for a consistent trend spanning multiple candles. Let's say that in an uptrend I see a series of candles with higher highs and higher lows. I look two consecutive candles that have...

The stock market indices are more a measure of emotion (fear) than a gauge of the quality of the companies which are their constituents. The indices can run away upwards or downwards to levels which are beyond rational explanation in economic terms. In this sense I'd say the OP is more right...

The selling is so that I can get long again asap.