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When you get stopped out in a stock you can get a lot worse fills then your stop was suppose to protective you against getting due to large orders sweeping through. I was wondering if stops in forex work in the same kind of manner or if they do a better/worse job of protecting you. Are having...

any opinions on embry? I love his demeanor. He is a true gold bull.

do people leave or do they just start new accounts and change their names...?

I just saw an infomercial on the television from the US mint about commorative coins. It was all about encouraging the public to get into gold and how it was such a great investment. It showed how the price went from ~250 to 725 in ~5 years. This shows that the public is becoming more aware...

hey joab, I'm just wondering why you wouldn't just short the stock? If you really believe in this double top don't you think you will see a considerable amount more downside then 1.40?

this is my thinking: these quantitative methods use massive amounts of data and in depth statistical methods and find trends that when x happens, y happens, then z happens. They find loads of these types of trends/patterns - some that occur with 60%, 70%, or x% efficiency. Then they just try...

the big gold trade over the last 5-10 years was buying a portfolio of small gold miners and watching them fly. Huge returns have been made doing this by intelligent investors. My thinking is that the easy money has been made. Everyone now thinks gold is destined to go higher and it seems like...

Is ES one of the most difficult contracts to trade? If so why? Is it because of all the bots?

Isn't it correct that the specialists not only execute orders but they trade as well?

anyone know?

these guys say you can have live charts (esignal) and they make you pay for them and then you see that the live charts are 20 min delayed...

Does anyone who works at a prop shop use sierra charts? Is it possible to feed live data coming in through the trading software into the sierra charts software?

When day trading do most people pay attention to ema or ma? Also in your opinion what value of ema or ma (i.e. 9 day, 14 day) offer the most support/resistance below 50 day ema/ma?

I have read on here people executing the "millennium strategy" out of swift's branches - is this strategy common knowledge or is it hush hush... Does anyone want to briefly explain the concept for curiosity's sake?

Have you guys noticed that sometimes on a stock it will clear out all the new york book orders (inet, isi, etc) at prices a few cents away from the bid/offer but leave the island and arca orders there. So the person buying/selling is getting bad prices... Anyone know why or how this happens?

What percentage of people who work at prop shops (ex. swiftrade) scalp? Do many people here scalp?

Hey, Don't you need a good method to be able to make money? I hear a lot from people who really sound like they know what they are talking about that its all about psychology. So my question is do methods to make money come relatively easily, and is it the greed and fear that mess up peoples...

last question...thanks for the insight man, so in your opinion are there a lot of people on here or just independent that are more talented and better traders than a lot of these institutional guys... take care

but when they do bring you into the fold, do they expect you to know what you are doing already or do they teach you a little bit and then cut you loose to see what you can do. And with education - do most of these guys have MBAs or just undergrad degrees, or phd's in math or physics

so your saying that a lot of guys on here wouldn't stand a chance at getting one of those jobs?