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    Huge Losses

    After reading enough good books, and going over the mistakes I made for the previous three years, I just decided one day that I must cut losers short, and stuck to it. So you could call it three years, or one day that I took. In fact, now I cut my losses with glee, because I know I'm...
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    add to a losing positon

    Along the same lines as spike500's post: I read in a book that instead of adding to a loss it's better to go flat and re-evalute your position then, because it lets you think from a neutral psychological position. It's hard to think straight when you have a paper loss weighting on you, and...
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    Anybody trading currencies?

    What I wonder about is why don't these bucket shops really bucket your orders and hedge against their own positions on the world-wide 24/7 spot market and futures market? Surely some of the largest of those dealers have enough order-flow to accomplish such? The only valid explaination is...
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    Anybody trading currencies?

    If you cannot find one good stock to go long on, then surely you can find one good stock to go short on?
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    Anybody trading currencies?

    Is it just me or are those forex dealers the reincarnation of the bucket shops that Jesse Livermore talked about? They let you buy/sell using interbank quotes but play the secret market maker. With razor-thin margin they rip off the average gambler hoping to make a lot out of very little...
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    IQ and trading

    Awsome puzzle as applied to trading!
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