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I think the textbook example for debasing currency is Weimar Germany. How did that end up? Hitler coming to power fomenting hate and resentful Germans going to war against its former creditors. People extolling the virtues of a weak currency probably have never lived through hyperinflation.

It would seem that trading in large volume is what prop firms want. I am not a big trader so please enlighten me if I am wrong but that strikes me as a big disadvantage because high turnover strategies are what is encouraged. The ability to enter low liquidity stocks is therefore impaired...

Which countries generally are considered to have a strong currency? Which countries have a weak currency? Which of these countries do you want to live in?

Hey Kalzayani! If I may ask what method are you using to come up with these forecasts?

The problem right there is the part that goes "backtested to perfection". As for fundamentals, what are fundamentals really about? Are they about interest rates? Are they about PPP? Are they about earnings? I think at the bottom of it they go right back to the same thing technicals are...

Question: What currency is being best managed by their financial overseers? There is all this talk about the US behaving irresponsibly and pretty much debasing their currency. The euro doesn't exactly inspire confidence. The yen has virtually non-existent interest rates. According to the...

Apparently not everybody does, that's why they do not seem to be able to interpret it very well. MACD is a derivative of a 12 and 26 period MA. A cross of the zero line is the same thing as a 12 26 MA crossover. You saying it isn't? If it comes down to this MACD method or Spydertrader's...

So it seems there are people who do not know how to calculate the MACD but are trying to explain a strategy based on it. A simple two MA crossovers strategy at that. At least it helps to clarify who the high school dropouts in this thread are.

I haven't read the previous pages of this thread or the other one referenced by it but everyone does realize that a MACD zero line crossover is the same thing as an MA crossover. Right?

How does improving the balance of trade against China help the US? Sourcing will simply shift to another more expensive supplier. There are grounds to believe the US will be hurt, not helped, by a yuan appreciation.

The Pattern Daytrading Rule is discriminatory. The line that it is to protect people is an excuse. It may end up doing so but it's not the reason it is there. The 25K requirement discourages people from directly accessing the markets themselves and thus serves as a barrier that prompts...

Please elaborate further. What exactly is the scam? The modus operandi? Maybe that will help some of us understand the nature of the problem.

To be amongst the richest would generally require ownership in publicly owned corporations would it not? The Rockefeller fortune was largely based on Standard Oil if I recall. It should be pretty easy for a dedicated researcher to follow the trail I would think. What is held in a private...

According to someone who said he was studying the SEC filings of Buffett, Buffett has been averaging around 14% since 2000 with no down years. Not as good as his longer term 20% average but not shabby either. People who diss Buffett aren't doing themselves any favors. It isn't a percentage play.

Hello, sorry for not having responded sooner. I base my assumption that fiat money is superior as a medium of exchange because it circulates more in the form of credit. Because the central bank can simply snap its fingers and there is automatically more money, capital is more readily available...

If the gold standard is such a great thing why isn't there a developed country in the world that uses it? I haven't really looked at the problem as closely as others here likely have but I would note that while fiat money may lose value more quickly and as a store of value may be inferior...

The problem I'm having is that after right clicking the Indices Panel and then clicking Edit Indices where it brings you to the Data Sources/Proxy menu IB does not show up on my list of possible index quote data sources. IB appears as an option for quotes as well as backfill and I can display...

So a 3 SMA crossover will be compared to an adaptive donchian channel/turtle breakout to determine which should be the prelimenary setup signal. Okay. Will the pullback requirement and subsequent entry still be kept or has that been dropped already?

Is there a way to display IB indices in the Indices section on top where they can be easily seen instead of in a portfolio?

I'm curious is there any chance that the QT alert functions will be improved anytime soon? For example is it possible to apply a global alert to only selected portfolios and not all of them? It gets annoying when stocks on a non-traded model portfolio keep giving alert signals just like...