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    I am looking for a firm to start as a prop trader

    i.e. your dynamic stops (from your hedged positions in opp direct) may not be able to protect you completely. Also, to be safe, do not allocate more than 35% of your funds in forex/futures... However, in order to survive in this game, need to find cash leverage of your 35% by 10X for...
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    I am looking for a firm to start as a prop trader

    I am not sure if all the prop firms are only into equities... some may be into forex giving you cash leverage on top of standard forex 1:100-200. If Prop firms are not into forex, then boutique fund houses (mini-hedge funds) with 100mil-1bil trading assets might be a better venue...
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    I am looking for a firm to start as a prop trader

    Forex is a highly leveraged instrument. It doesn't mean as your capital grow larger, you can increase your amount of trades proportionally...because your drawdowns will be amplified too.
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    Morgan Stanley Traders Lost $390 Million in One Day in August

    From a trader's perspective, Let's say you place a bet of $1 on the first cup... After removing one of the cups, do you switch your bet? How about placing $2 on the second cup...while keeping your $1 bet on the first cup? (a) In this way, if coin is under first cup, you lose $1...
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    I am looking for a firm to start as a prop trader

    From the looks of it, there are not many traders/firms with capital sustantially larger than mine in ET...:( I was thinking of at least 10X, a mil to start off with...
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    I am looking for a firm to start as a prop trader

    I have been trading for 4 yrs...but due to constraint in initial capital, I can't implement many strategies I have in mind... As Don have pointed out, doing directional trades with capital less than 1mil has a much lower chance of survival due to drawdowns and non-directional methods usually...
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    Superb returns from 7 major.../JPY Basket spread

    That is not a complete picture of my trades... My high ATR GBP,NZD,AUD will include both long and short positions as well... EUR is usually balanced with CHF as most will do... CAD will be balanced with USD positions as "residual" companions to the basket... As a basket, my net...
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    Superb returns from 7 major.../JPY Basket spread

    No need to backtest...just trade with real money like real traders. would like to discuss more with traders with basket spread/ hedging trading experience...on rebalancing/scale in-scale out optimisation for FX baskets. PM me if you want a more private analysis or find out more on the...
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    Superb returns from 7 major.../JPY Basket spread

    Anyone else spread trading the 7 major .../JPY basket pairs too? Want to discuss more on developing a system to automate the spread. I am just using ATR indicator (long the pairs with lowest ATR and short the highes) and have achieved this result:
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    Carry Trade Strategies

    I am relatively new to carry trade approach for a basket of JPY pairs/spread combo strategy; Anyone knows where can I find more info/tools/spread ratio FX charts? Beside .../JPY, are there other basket spread trading for pairs such as GBP/CHF? Also, is anyone just making money just from...
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    Carry Trade Interest Differential Consistent among brokers?

    If there are no interest/swap free FX brokers, can anyone recommend one which offers the lowest short Swap rate for major carry trade pairs.... e.g, GBP/JPY, GBP/CHF, NZD/JPY, AUD/JPY,... etc
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    Carry Trade Interest Differential Consistent among brokers?

    Any other brokers offering interest free overnight position besides Marketiva to hedge against my carry trades in other accts?:p
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    Philosophy of the Stock Market

    Got it from an email...thought it was funny:p
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    Philosophy of the Stock Market

    Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared who announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers,seeing that there were many monkeys in the forest, went out and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 each. As supply started to diminish and...
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    Who wants to program my Profitable Trading System?

    That is a smart QUANT :p :cool:
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    An almost always profitable trading strategy

    There are plenty of 2 accts systems out there... with excellent results Look at MetaTrader4 EAs forums.... , Blessing, V1+V2, hedgeEAs,etc www.forextsd.com
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    An almost always profitable trading strategy

    If you don't get, you don't get it... don't waste space in the thread posting useless comments...
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    An almost always profitable trading strategy

    Thanks, finally getting some productive replies...:) Why do the older posts have so much more substance in it? Where have all these older traders gone...retired on some remote island?
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    An almost always profitable trading strategy

    IF you enter position for only 1 acct, you are likely to end up cutting loss more times in a row...whatever the win/loss ratio is... Don't understand why some so called traders always talk about comm. when er2,ym,...futures is only about $1.5 per side...some brokers even go as low as...
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