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No! God only helps Tim Tebow! Ok, now we can get back on topic!

Ok. Maybe i'll meet you in the Politics and Religion forum some time but i generally won't be found there. I emphasized self-honesty earlier in this thread. I believe it's a matter of honesty to admit that we don't believe the Bible so much as we each believe our interpretation - our judgment...

It's not really possible to believe the Bible because a good percentage of it is in parables. It's not possible to believe a parable because it doesn't make any emphatic statements. A parable only has merit to the extent that you honestly interpret it's true meaning. You can only believe in...

It should be clear that there are different types of faith. Some people obviously believe things that aren't true. Others obviously do. (Other times it's not so easy to tell the difference.) Is there also one Time? Not really. Time is not what it appears to be. The markets depend on...

I don't think GOOD cares about my trading plan, no. There is another type of "god", however, that may have cared for a while...just as we sometimes care about what we imagine to be true. I talked a little about fate because i believe that everything that that god may have cared about has...

Yes, something like that. I prefer to think of the Big Bang as an explosion that was intended to destroy Reality. It marks the beginning of time, which competes directly with the realm of the Eternal. And now, our scientists are questioning whether the Big Bang actually happened or not. I...

Having a sense of humor is probably another way to change fate. You should do well going forward. The realm of an imaginary god is all that is absurd. It is both comic AND tragic...at the same time. It is hot and cold, right and left... up and down. All opposites combined into one thing in...

Good one! ;) This thread does belong in psychology because the issue really comes down to high self-esteem vs. low self-esteem, and how that plays out. Another good trading strategy is self-honesty. I recently sat down with three traders the other day to discuss robotic trading vs...

The way i do it is i distinguish between a world i call *Reality* and a world i call imagination. The laws that govern these two worlds are incompatible. What may work in imagination may not work in Reality. Markets, all markets, are part of a world built on *imagination* with it's own laws...

Thanks Bob, that was a very good reply. At least it fits, and explains a little better, the general picture i've gotten about how it all works. So heres what i'm understanding as far as where the leverage comes from: Leverage is just a number that the broker will allow you to...

TRO, i just found this list of the top ten forex liquidity providers: 1. Deutsche Bank 18.06 2. UBS 11.30 3. Barclays Capital 11.08 4. Citi 7.69 5. RBS 6.50 6. JP Morgan 6.35 7. HSBC 4.55 8. Credit Suisse 4.44 9. Goldman Sachs 4.28 10. Morgan Stanley 2.91 So when you say, "drain...

Ok so i looked around a little more, wondering just who are these mysterious *liquidity providers*. I found this over at pipinvestment.com: Liquidity Providers List Here are the top ten and percentages as of the date of the list (unknown): 1. Deutsche Bank 18.06 2. UBS...

Forex is a term used for a market, like American Baseball League is a term for a division of players who compete with each other for wins. You and i don't play in that market anymore than we play in the National Baseball League. However, that can't stop us from betting on the games that are...

Thanks Bob, Let me propose a model that is intended to reflect what is actually happening, based on what i've been able to gather so far. There is a market where "currency swaps" are, well, swapped! Companies, banks and nations would be the typical players in this market. That...

Rascally Englishman goes to Wall Street district to buy things with absolutely blank white pieces of paper! Paying With Paper He figured this would work in the "financial capital of the world". I wonder if there are any lessons we can learn from this?

Thanks Robert, One way to rephrase the question might sound like this: If i make $5K using 10:1 leverage, where does the money come from? If i make $10K using 20:1 leverage, where does the money come from? If i make $20K using 50:1 leverage, where does the money...

Thank you. This seems to explain it. If this is the case, a broker does not ever want an account going in the negative due to a trade. Sounds like it will be the one holding the bag, unless a margin call is answered. Would a forex broker terminate a trade that looks like it's going too far...

Hmmm...i wonder if that's one of the two banks i saw that still had 100:1 leverage. Anyways, the following article is almost a year old but seems to shed some light on the subject. http://forexmagnates.com/?p=6328

I'm wondering if Lehman goofed, or if they were just eliminated because they were a competitor of Goldman Sachs, which was favored to survive by the Fed. Dunno. Seems to me that if Lehman could have been sacrificed (if it was) a whole lot more could've. But i get the point. J.P. Morgan...

Ahead of Ron Paul's final run for the presidency, and ahead of the next great Occupy Wall Street protest, i'd like to kick off a thread that questions everything about the Federal Reserve System. I'd like to throw Is the Fed a Failure? into the discussion. I'd also like to throw in PAGE...