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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    There would still be competition among banks, but in any case if there was considered to be a monopoly among dealers, then that would be the regulator's role to police ... no different to telephone/utility/postal/lottery "monopolies", and the need to regulate them. It may be heresy to say so...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    (Forgive me if this has already been covered in this thread, but I have only just joined ... if this HAS already been covered earlier, just point me back there, and I'll go back into my hole ...) If we are now saying that this tax is "dead" because one group of market participants (MMs) could...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8407439.stm EU calls for tax on bank transactions
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Apologies for being slow to respond ... I’m very grateful for all the input received. I’m almost a year now into starting out full time in automated trading. The initial trading style I’m focused on honing is sentiment-oriented technical trader (i.e. parasitic order-anticipating...
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Thanks for the response.
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    Trading system

    Quote from seotrader: ... to trade ETF'S world-wide like in Europe/Asia ... Haven't investigated this in detail myself, but I believe the following may offer this: - Interactive Brokers - Barclay's Stockbrokers - IW Bank - SaxoBank NB - I have done no due diligence on any of them in...
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    how much live trading is relevant?

    Very thorough answer. Very many thanks.
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Thanks, Heat! ... and also flattered to be the location of your first posting. Welcome to ET!
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    how much live trading is relevant?

    Apologies, but one more question ... (for 10 bonus points!). Using your terminology, when you relate "position size" to "account size" with these percentages, which of the following is closest to your meaning of "position size" ... "position size" = # of contracts (or shares) X position...
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    how much live trading is relevant?

    Thank you, Rabbitone. I am very grateful for the full, detailed response to the questions. PS. you got a perfect score on both counts ...
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Thank you, Steven
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    What Security do you use?

    Thanks for posting this. Backup and security are not my f¡eld, so I can't give you a meaningful response. However, it occurred to me that perhaps the security aspect at least will depend to a degree on whether your computer is a dedicated trading machine, or whether you/your kids(!)...
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Quote from jack hershey: ... My suggestion to you is to get in contact with a local user of our stuff... Thanks, Jack Any local users in Europe?
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Quote from jack hershey: ....SYM>> FTP or FBP >>> Hitch>>> stitch B or stich R>>>OB ... Sym>> FTP or FBP>>> translation (trending)... Jack, does the route to better/fully understanding this lie here ... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113310
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Quote from Fleming Snopes: ... You will trade better if you forget about everything but identifying support and resistance... Fleming Snopes, Pivot levels seem (to me) to be one of the most consistently useful methods of doing this. How do you rate them?
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Quote from jack hershey: ... If you look at my chart you see the non trending subset in yellow boxes ... What differenciates a yellow box with blue perimeter from yellow with red perimeter?
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Quote from jack hershey: The market was a little uncertain in terms of smart money traders at two times (before 8:00 and before 9:00). Time zone? US Mountain Time?
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Fair enough!
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    Choppy versus Trending

    I enjoyed reading the attachment comparing "CW (Conventional Wisdom) Thinking" with "Non CW Thinking". Thanks. Quote from jack hershey: ... In summary for NON CW, as any trader monitors, he has the ability, if he chooses to acquire the ability, to continually know that he knows. At any...
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    Choppy versus Trending

    Thanks TradeCharts (and thanks Fleming Snopes and paysense, earlier)
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