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So how do you enter with only $5? A nano lot is 1000.

Bitter lesson #3. Not so bitter, actually, since it really came home to me in paper trading. Don't move your stop down, period, and don't move it up too early, either. I was falling into a bad habit of sometimes nudging my stop down because I wanted to stay in the trade. That has cost me a lot...

Hey Padu, you started really really small, I think I remember you saying. I was doing some reading on Forex and it looks to me like you have to trade in lots of 1000 or 10,000 or more. How did you manage that? And weren't gains painfully small? I am kinda interested in FX right now. I should be...

Works well in EVERY market condition? I would also be interested in that system. I don't think we got that, yet.

THIS you could trade with. Two 4k monitors, not too shabby. More is better but two is a pretty good foot in the door IYAM. Practical, if you already have the screens and other peripherals laying around. I would get the official power supply. I would want a full size keyboard and a touchpad and...

If I was up $130k halfway into the year, I wouldn't change a thing until the market made a significant change.

Choice of OS is already made. I don't trust a secret source OS. The only way I could ever trust WinDOHs or Mac is if they released it as open source. I hate to say this, but everyone doing any sort of financial work on a Windows machine is very vulnerable. The potential risk of a mass attack is...

Well there are only two choices for Linux users: IB and TDAmeritrade. Is TDAmeritrade better? And how? Why is IB a bad choice? What can I do about it, other than switching?

Yeah, starting to sound like a thing. Maybe next week. I used all my trades today. Actually maybe I have another one now... I am sure I only made two trades today, one a fumble of the mouse, at that, that cost me $47 so my day actually should have been better than it was. So I know I did three...

Yeah I know Mac is POSIX based. But it is so inflexible. Works as designed. Designed to do... what the designers think you should be doing. A full Linux distro gives you a lot of power and freedom. Also Mac source code is secret. Not open to public review. Not available for customization. Do you...

I thought it was time to start putting stuff down in black and white but don't expect me to be typing here when I need to be trading and stuff. Background: Turned 60 last week. Thinking about retiring soon. Maybe when I am 65, or 62, or next year, or next week. Undecided. I am afraid when I...

I think what he meant by where he was from, was not the USA as a whole, but the labor camp and the fields.

Oh wait... FIRST GENERATION. I think they do mean that his parents were immigrants and he was US born.

My bad, if I was wrong. I thought he was born in U.S.

A year without surprise updates, that's pretty good! But the fact remains that they CAN do WHATEVER THEY WANT to your system ANY TIME THEY WANT, without your consent or even your knowledge. So can anyone else, who figures out how to get in that big back door. Plus the source code is secret, not...

He wasn't an immigrant.

Windows is a little more flexible than Mac. However, it is inherently much less secure. Updates happen whether you want them to, or not, and when MS decides to do them. You are not recommended to update. You are not asked for permission. You are not notified ahead of time. Otherwise Win has most...

The Way of the Turtle.

That is a very inspirational read! But seriously that guy had initiative. Secretly making the first batch at home. Going out and buying his own product, pumping the market from day one. Simple Genius. That CEO was pretty smart, too. Not just anybody would have listened to a janitor. Really...

It is kind of complex, yeah. It can be learned DIY fashion, though, but it takes considerable time and effort. Not for everybody. Literally. I think it is something like 80% of new traders fail or quit. Learning about trading WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER INVESTOR. There are times to buy. There are...