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You think you've got problems in the US with the liberal-minded left? Here in the UK we have a socialist opposition led by two Marxists. The current government is not popular, the post-Brexit economic future is uncertain and we have never been this close to becoming a communist state.

There's no way of dispassionately assessing which is a good religion and which is a bad. But one benefit the "best" might be said to have is tendency towards establishment of a well defined code of behaviour towards others. We call this law, but there's a close relationship between codes of law...

In one sense, the best way to get rid of NK's nuclear missiles would be to induce Kim to fire them off. The "best" targets for the purpose would be the most distant - this allows longer time for interception, less accuracy in targeting and longer time for retaliation before a second wave of...

Seriously? Considering how badly they generally perform?

Yes, thanks, you could be right. Just as long as they don't think trading like a hedge fund manager is the way forward as a private retail trader.

We'd still end up governed by politicians. Who would mostly do just about anything for power. That's why they became politicians.

Never let trivial facts like that get in the way of a good argument! And if someone's grammar can be criticised, so much the better!

Good little clip. But since the 1945 A-bombs and the H-bomb, nuclear weapons have been seen as an inevitable first step to destruction of all civilised life through an escalating nuclear exchange leading to nuclear winter. This is not necessarily their only tactic or outcome.

Chances of a direct NK attack on US citizens or service personnel are remote. Nuclear power is useful to Kim Jong-un as long as he can bargain with it. But once he's committed to missile attacks rather than tests, the outcomes for him would be either regime change with no remaining nuclear...

A fair point. I thought it probably meant beneficial, in the sense of beneficial to mankind including the non-religious, rather than useful. But maybe I was wrong.

If you're long US equities I would hold until either the Dow's 20EMA crosses below the 50 or the Dow itself closes below the 50. That money stays in cash until the bull market resumes. These simple rules would have made you look like a genius right before the 1929 crash. And the bursting of the...

For the private retail traders using the forum, should we care what hedge funds do or charge?

No, its not.

fhl - What are you trying to say and why are you avoiding just saying it?

I wish............

Happy with the money I am making currently from forex. I put this down to firstly defining what characteristics a trend I wanted to be in would have and then going with every trend that fits, and secondly pyramiding every winner.

You need to be good at each when you need to use each. Like when you need a spanner you need to know how to use a spanner, when you need a screw-driver, you need to know how to use a screw-driver. Neither is more nor less important than the other, its the skill deployed in selecting which to use...

Well, there's not really any argument here. Why would I recommend a profitable day-trader give up day-trading? - I wouldn't and I didn't. But d08 likes to set up adversarial conversations, even when I wasn't talking to him (and don't like to generally).

Maybe its illogical but the statistics are with my argument. Most new traders are day-traders and most get wiped out.

Thanks lcranston. I actually have no trades open today and no orders pending, having twice made sufficient profit this month that I can't justify trading.