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Some questions to those making a decent middle to upper middle class living as traders who have not reached millionaire status yet: In our society especially in major cities a person social status is determined heavily by their current occupation, right or wrongly. While it is obvious...

Hello, Does anyone here use FXCM mobile? If so, how reliable is it and how good are the charts? What type of charts are there and what features are available on the charts? In a general sense, what is the best way to trade Forex on the go. Thanks

<<<Now, my obvious question. Why do you want to do trading on a mobile platform? There are certain latency and technological hurdles that no broker or software provider can overcome yet, and the repercussions could be terrible if you can't complete a key action when you need to. I can't think of...

Hello, I am aware that there is a mobile platforms by Etrade for trading stocks and options. There also is a Mobile platform for trading from FXCM to trade currencies via Iphones or Androids. I am interested in the intraday trading of emini futures and am wondering the following...

Hello, Just wondering the following about trading emini's as a career from anyone who has successfully done so as a career: 1. Is it really possible to trade emini's intraday as a career? 2. How much on an account can one make per year percentwise ( please no absurd claims of taking...

Robertwiz <<Sounds like you've done your homework and most of the heavy lifting. The nemesis of most trend following systems (generally speaking) is highly volatile choppy markets or congested markets, which lead to draw downs. Fast and slow is a vague description, especially when you talk...

Hello, ( I may have accidentally submitted an incomplete version of my question): I am an intermediate-beginner in the process of trying to develop a trend following system. While I have gotten pretty good at eliminating some very bad trading ideas (considered good by some trading gurus)...

Why does corporate in general, look down upon individual and entrepreneurial effort. Success at any kind of entrepreneurial endeavor indicates that you have some real business smarts that could benefit the company in question in the long run. Rather than faking your way through the job and...

Hello, Just wondering does a successful trading track record help if you later decide for whatever reason that you want a traditional "corporate career" in finance or want to get an MBA. Have any independent traders who wanted to make the transition for whatever reason managed to obtain...

Hello, I am a relative newcomer to intraday trading. I have a trading system based on the 15 minute timechart that makes several trades a day in Forex, ES, and sometimes bond or crude oil futures. My questions are the following: 1. Which piece of software is best for futures and forex...

Hello, just wondering for people that manage to make money in trading, have developed good track records ( I am not a trader yet, but in real life know of two successful real life traders), but after developing many skills in trading which have somewhat applicable to business and finance in...

Thanks for your input. What type of person would succeed in trading but not traditional business or vice versa. Larry Williams mentioned that he knew of many successful futures traders who tried to take their winnings and turn them into millions more in the regular business world and it seldom...

Hello, I am a newcomer to the world of automated trading systems and am interested in programing some intraday trading strategies into a system so that they can be automatically executed while I work in the case of Forex and ES futures and while I sleep in the case of Euro Session Forex. I...

Hello, I am a 31 year old man that is at the crossroads of deciding which path to take to build my fortune. I am extremely interested in trading as well as traditional business/entrepreneurship. My questions are the following: 1. In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages...