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Charts .... where do I begin? I can't print them off reliably. When I call up one chart, a bunch of irrelevant ones that I closed ages ago pop up as well ... technical studies don't display at all ... they lag 2-3 seconds behind ... when I try time-shifting, the results are totally...

amen about the analysts. The whole swoon since 26 July is supposed to have started with the beige book, which was based on data that was 2 weeks old, shouldn't have surprised anyone, and just confirmed that the US economy was slowing down. And that Bernanke WASN'T GOING To RAISE RATES. Wow...

btw, I've tried stocks, I've tried options, and I've settled on forex as the only way to go. Advantages of forex: (1) a major currency isn't going to do an Enron on you, (2) you can go long or short, same risk, (3) you can leverage insanely (although you can make a nice living without going...

What the %^&* is going on with USDCAD? USDJPY is at a 3-month high, AUDUSD and EURUSD are in the middle of their monthly trading range, oil and metals have been dropping for weeks, yet USDCAD is 100 pips off a 30-year low and still falling. Today's figures showed the Canadian trade surplus...

I've been very disturbed by a number of things at IB lately, particularly that it sometimes takes as long as 6 minutes for an order to get acknowledged, by which time of course the price is long gone. This evening, I tried to sell $350K of USDCAD at 1.1118, and the order wasn't acknowledged...

Myths and facts about the Canadian vs US health care systems Myth: The US has a private health-care system, Canada has a state-run health-care system Fact: The public sector (i.e. the taxpayer) spends more on health care in the US than in Canada. There is Medicare, Medicaid and the VA...

BTW I use IB and much as I generally like them I've had some scary experiences. Like it taking 6 minutes before an order is acknowleged - by then of course the price is gone. Like stops getting ignored, and I don't mean in fast markets. Tonight I put in a limit sell order for USDCAD at 1.1118...

Hedging is only psychological, but psychology is important. Hedging beats thrashing.

The point I was making was that the usual way of making money is to learn a skill and then get people to pay you to use it, and doing that, 1% a day is not exceptional. If you can invest $100,000 into gaining qualifications, say as a CA, and then bill $1000 a day doing it, that's 1% a day. For...

1% a day ROI is actually not that hard to achieve, I meant to say. Going to law school works, too, at least here in Canada where tuition is cheap. 200k for the degree, then you bill $2000 a day easy. BTW, USDJPY is way overpriced, if you have 500k you can short $5 mil at 117.02 as I write...

... is actually not that hard to achieve. Apprentice as a plumber, total cost maybe $20k, then you bill $50 an hour.