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I want to start trading FX but after reading the complaints about IDEALPRO, made me consider currency futures instead. So currency futures vs. cash - pros and cons - anyone care to comment?

Three things I like about this thread: Grob's reference to the Scientist post, Grob's referance to sports memory, and maxpi's post - very insightful.

Any more thoughts on this interesting topic....?

Assume YM as trading vehicle and a random entry with profit target at 2x the stop loss. Now the guy with 5/10 tick stop-loss/profit-target is the scalper/daytrader. The guy with a 50/100 tick stop-loss/profit-target is the position/swing trader. And the guy with a 500/1000 tick...

I notice executions in futures to be a lot slower than usual yesterday and today.

I agree, I never listen to anything while trading...too distracting.

I got another marketing letter from Bill Harris in the mail today and it made me think about Holosync and binaural beat techonology. I thinks its okay, I don't realize notice any profound changes but then again I really don't listen to it everyday (I listen very rarely actually at this point)...

Reversion to the mean, we are seeing with the Indian and Chinese economies. If you look at the last thousands of years. India and China have always had about 40% of the world's population and 40% of the world's wealth. Right now, we these two nations have about 40% of the worlds population...

Yes. I want to add: you don't know it if it isn't muscle memory. A person that knows not to touch a hot stove never stops to think and analyze the situation once he knows his hand is on a hot stove, he responds to the situation physiologically with spontaneity - not mentally by planing his...

I think there is an error on my K-1. My P/L shows up on Net Short-Term Capital Gain (Loss) in Box 8 instead of Ordinary Business Income (Loss) in Box 1. I think this is an error cause I got two K-1s and one shows my P/L in Box 1 (Ordinary Income) and the other shows my P/L in Box 8 (Capital...

I think no matter how much the Chinese, Russans, and Europeans dislike US hegemony - the very last thing they want to see is their biggest customer go bankrupt by a crashing dollar and the destabilizing effect that would have on the global economy. That's why there was no security council veto...

Nice post. So you have more losing trades and winning trades and yet have near 100% winning months, but defintate 100% winning years. Thats the power of having a valid strategy, solid risk/money management plan, and the dicipline to stick to it.

Whats with e-file anyway? Why can't you e-file directly with the IRS? Why do you have to file thru a CPA or CPA firm - many of whom charge fees? Besides I would have privacy concerns too filing thru someone or a firm I didn't know.

IB: time is money and if you want to save your customers billions of hours in time trying comply with IRS Schedules D-1 request, why don't you just provide your customers purchase and sales information in the format that IRS demands?

I'm just not going to list every transaction. I'm gonna post share totals, purchase totals, and sales totals for each retail broker. I don't have the information in the format the IRS demands and it would take me at least 10 hours to put it all the info on an excel file in the format they...

A Glorious Piece of Meat: An Overture on Consciousness: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5477683963602021118&q=consciousness&pl=true

Here's an interesting video about: Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=what+the+bleep&pl=true

Yeah that was pretty cool too FuturesTrader water exposed to words "thank you": water exposed to words "you make me sick":

Yes the movie's been out for a while and I read some of the negative reviews and decided not to rent it thinking it was just new age hocus pocus but I stumbled upon it on Google Video (great site btw) and decided to watch it and it was great - no complaints at all considering how low budget it was.

There were many interesting parts of the movie. Most interesting to me was when one of the guys explained that we get addicted to certain emotional states (lets say stress for example). Now the hormone related to stress is cortisol. So when you're constantly feeling stessed out you have tons...