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Which does raise the frequently asked question, why are we trying to get people onto the Moon and the nearest Solar System planets? It might be worthwhile if we could use resources we find there and return them to Earth to help humanity. But that doesn't seem a capability in the foreseeable future.

So you approve of the Mossad's actions. That's bold. But I'm sure you won't approve of the Russian assassinations since they were designed not to protect the Russian state but to protect Vladimir Putin and his cronies and their looted assets.

But do you think a foreign state should be free to send its agents into your town to assassinate someone?

But do you think the Mossad should have a free hand to carry out assassinations on the territory of other sovereign states? Do you think this is right in principle?

No state in the world can accept that another state may send its agents within its borders to carry out assassinations. As you rightly object strongly to the actions you describe that Israel has carried out, I assume you're 100% with me on Russia's actions in the UK?

I don't much care if oligarchs who got heir riches through corruption die in suspicious circumstances. That might be how they got where they were and some other gangster will take their place and so the cycle goes on. But I have to object to the Russians doing that on UK soil. Also the...

No there was never nothing. In aggregate there must always have been a quantity of mass and a quantity of energy going back to an infinite past. The mass and energy would have always been in a state of flux within and between themselves just as they are today. The process is incomplete, it never...

I'm sure you must mean US media is whiter now than it used to be. In the UK, it seems we're fast moving towards a new era of black-and-white television - 50% black, 50% white. Its even possible to see black actors in historically anomalous parts. what is not understood by many people is that...

You're right on all counts. At the time punk started here I was into the tail end of the first wave of heavy metal, prog rock, folk rock and some blues. To my ear, punks were talentless yobs who were annoyed at how hard it was to learn to play an instrument.

I'm sure you're right - designing their visuals this way must make a bottom-line difference. Surely the way these adverts modify consumer behaviour must be sub-conscious? Its hard to think of any consumer rationalising they should buy soft drink A because their advert had more black actors than...

TV adverts in the UK became flooded with black actors since about 1-2 years ago. The ratio of black to white in adverts appears to be about 50:50. The actual percentage of black people in the UK population is 3%. Half of the black population of the UK live in London, the other half live in 5...

For the professionals, risk trumps everything. Which means that specific behaviours are tailored so as to carry equivalent risk to what every other professional is doing. And so the market moves like a mob. All we have to do is not get in their way.

This is some thread. The only way I can really do justice to all this stuff is if I come back to it at 3am one night after far too much wine. Can't comment till then as I don't understand it.

I don't go along with the very first point - its not possible to define a market as choppy solely based on price being below a single MA. Likewise a market is not trending solely because price is above the MA.

Is there really any justification for long periods demo trading? Firstly there should be no need to invent or prove a strategy. If its your first experience in trading, its unrealistic to expect to invent a brand new strategy which nobody ever thought of before. The first strategy should be an...

I use a couple of short-term momentum trade strategies that entail setting both buy and sell entry orders. Bracket orders as some people call them. But the stop-loss on each position is at the entry of the other, so that if for example the buy is triggered but then stopped out, the sell is...

Once you have a consistently profitable strategy, the losing trades are just an overhead. They are not mistakes, its not a faulty strategy that needs revision, they are not instructive, they are not from bad luck, they are not from a rigged market or a dishonest broker. They are baked into the...

I don't trade stocks these days just forex and the occasional index. However, I have traded stocks and the basic approach would be the same to what I do now. I scan the 28 main pair price charts and eliminate those without my defined set-up. I have already graded the pairs into majors, minors...

I'm currently only running one day-trading strategy, London opening range break-outs on GBP/USD. Apart from the H1 chart I check only the economic calendar - if any central bank news expected from either country I don't take a trade this day.

Close above the pin bar's high confirms the market's bullishness. Close below the pin bar's low likewise is a strong bearish indication: again, confirmation next day after the initial bearish close would be worth waiting for.