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My beliefs on the non-existence of gods are sincere. I reject the existence of any immortal and non-earthly beings. My beliefs on Christianity are not pre-determined apart from this, they are all learned from Christian teachings and Christian teachers. How else would a non-Christian know...

Thank you for these thoughts. It seems if I die later tonight I am condemed to eternal torment and suffering because I do not believe in the existence of gods. I am prepared to take my chances. But the conclusion does not make me feel very at ease with Christians who embrace this sort of...

Let's suppose I live the most moral life possible but without any belief that dieties exist. According to Christianity, what will happen to me when I die and I find I was wrong? Maybe other religions have other beliefs about what happens to me after my death.....

Here in the UK there is no "retirement age". From the age of 66 you receive a State Pension based on your mandatory National Insurance contributions over your life, but you do not have to retire, the State Pension on its own is not enough to retire on anyway. Meanwhile employers are clearly...

Didn't have a strategy. A good strategy covers everything. Make sure you can run a strategy by demo trading it first.

We have to see losing trades as failures, errors, mistakes, carelessness. This is primary school thinking. As long as you follow a consistently profitable strategy, there are no mistakes in what you do. We only learn as much from losers as we do from winners. But also recognise that we must...

I suppose Christians live morally sound lives. They do good when they can and never do bad. Suppose I live a morally sound life too. I do good when I can and never do bad. Yet I cannot believe there is any such thing as an immortal deity. Then I suppose if I'm wrong about gods you will see me...

I used to trade company shares - stocks and I reguarly trade the S&P. But never short.

Are the big banks trading these markets or are they building strategic positions, hedging sector risk, balancing industry exposure, developing long-term knowledge of a sector or management? If you run your own trading based on criteria we cannot evidence let alone replicate, your results are...

A training course will always contain some information that can be used in trading. It's all available free elsewhere but the course gives you a package deal. It's worth paying for if you have a limited time period in which you must urgently begin trading or by the end of which you must abandon...

These scenarios are a bit of fun to play around with. When obtaining a BOT, recognise that even a rather mediocre manual strategy will double your money every year. The vital statistics need be no better than - win rate 55% risk per trade 1.0% gain per trade 1.5% trades per month 20 I can...

I suspect that even the earliest humans had some form of spirituality, even if possibly only in the form of what we would call superstitions. And these would very likely have been linked to rules of survival as hunter-gatherers. So they would perhaps have had a superstition against killing an...

It doesn't matter what business you're in or who your broker is (I know nothing of Gain Capital) but the key to the relationship between the two parties is the contract, as detailed in the firm'sTerms & Conditions. The T&C's from my own broker state that the client is in breach of contract if...

I'm not religious but I have to say that spirituality has probably been a huge aid to the development of human society. So I'm very happy that most people have religious beliefs. But my own belief is that there are no such things as gods. Best to avoid trying to persuade religious people of...

Both a wise trader and a new trader can have 20-20 eye-sight. But the wise trader has peripheral vision: new traders have tunnel vision - bullish engulfing candle.... buy..... profit.

Training/education is great but experience really pays you back for the time invested. Start though with a demo account. Recognising patterns and opportnities and trends is only the first part of a trade - after that you have to trade it.

What I mean by mixing tactics from different styles is that many new traders seem to use TP's and early exits to throttle their trend-following trades, but they hold on too long to losing counter-trend trades (which are the majority).

I have had two revelations which turned my trading around. One was the realisation that the entry pattern does not trump the trend. So don't buy company shares when the whole market is already in a bear trend. Don't buy an EUR-based pair when all the other EUR pairs are bearish. The other was...

Its easy to see how a well regulated broker would ban a client and withhold return of deposited funds. If they have reason to believe a client has been "fundamentally dishonest" they may terminate the account of the client and ban them from opening a new account. In some situations, the broker...

Sounds like your tactics match your strategy. Trading on a short time-frame makes extended trend-following and pyramiding difficult to do successfully - few opportunities, many failures. Many losing traders seem to use tactics from one style in a strategy within another.