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    want to learn forex trading

    Th This has nothing to do with regulation. It is scam because you are never going to profit unless you are lucky or you can beat the robots of the platform.
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    Jim Simons Trashes Trend Following

    This is the most idiotic post on ET ever. I think the poster may want to rephrase.
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    Machine Learning is the new C++

    Machine learning was in fashion in the late 1980s when I was in graduate school. I remember professsors thinking that they will become too rich with ML.When they lost their money they got around understanding that its principles apply to problems that require curve-fitting, which is exactly the...
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    Can one trade futures and forex without leverage?

    Yes, you can buy one EURUSD lot with 100K balance in your account and you have 1:1 leverage. People are confused about it. You can buy one E-mini in an account with balance equal to face value and you will be 1:1 leveraged. See this expert article for details.
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    forex scalping in London and New York open

    Real or paper?
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    A hedge fund advised by Nassim Taleb made $1 billion this week

    Waitng for black swans to happen loses more in the longer-term than it wins in the short-term unless you are lucky, take the money and retire.
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    What are some good short-term indicators for detecting oversold conditions?

    Gambler's fallacy, RSI Use at your own risk.
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    What is meant by "short-term oversold, long-term overbought"?

    It depends on the period of the indicator and the timeframe.
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    Why do brokers display different live prices?

    Time lag in network connections, data filters, buffer delays in fact markets. In addition all forex broker show different data.
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    Software to Check Correlation between 100 ETF'S

    So we save him some trouble looking for the software.
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    Which parts of turtle system have stopped working and which parts still work?

    Jem, check out his new Momersion indicator. P.S. Actually I thought he meant that the patterns were random, not the price action. Since he talks about +autocorr he could not have meant that price was random.
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    want to learn forex trading

    He is looking for a casino.:) Retail forex is mostly scam.
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    Software to Check Correlation between 100 ETF'S

    Correlation is useless.
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    Limit or Market Orders??

    If your method works use market orders.
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    ZERO evidence QE boosted economy, REALLY? It took them this long to figure that out...

    The proper question to ask is what would have happened without QE.
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    want to learn forex trading

    If you want to spend some money for entertainment purposes then it is fine to trade forex but do not expect to make easy money in a zero-sum game controlled by market makers. You may read this for more info.
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    Another day trader bites the dust

    They also do not know statistics
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    $60 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization

    All debt is not the same. There is good and bad debt. Good debt is when it is used for growth. Bad is when it is used to pay public service workers.
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    Optimization of 3 or more parameters

    A genetically optimized system for a glabal maximum will almost always be robust to small changes in parameters and the test may fool you. See relevant links Fooled by machine learning Benferroni correction If you do optimization you essentionally do many multiple comparisons and effectively...
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