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    A Truth on Trading.**Everyone, please Read**

    exactly. free mentors are worth usually about what you pay for them. also, trading is NOT easy. it is deceptively easy to press buttons but trading is difficult. anybody who tells you otherwise is wrong.
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    A Truth on Trading.**Everyone, please Read**

    "honestly speaking, how many people are TRULLLYYYY making a living off trading on this board? if so, for how long have you been making this and how long do you think you can continue this money making from trading for" i have no idea. i do know the generally accepted # is that about 10% of...
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    A Truth on Trading.**Everyone, please Read**

    bullz, you suffer from a common logical fallacy. it goes back to the days of the greeks you assume that because you can't succeed, other's can't. "it's a scam" etc. spare me. the markets HAVE to move. good traders can make money from reassessment of value (on various timeframes)...
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    Why would anyone trade....

    you missed a quite obvious difference : SIZE cash based forex allows on to trade much smaller SIZE than the futures contract. iow, one can establish a position that has a much smaller $ value per pip than in futures. for the small trader (which is what cash forex targets) that should be...
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    What a low volume day

    day after OEX day no scheduled news events 'nuff said
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    60,000 down the drain

    hire a mentor study game theory study risk management i don't care how good a methodology you have. if you don't have discipline, structure, and solid money management, you are doomed. see: risk of ruin
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    Going long YM 13520 wheeeee

    "Don't bother, he also thinks that the rollover of contracts between calendars influences the prices LoL. I wish it were, a lot of money to be made there." actually, there are some traders who specialize in rollover days, and are quite profitable at it. in essence, they are playing a bit...
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    Now is the time 2 buy

    look at the bonds daily. you know it never ceases to amaze me the way some (putative) traders talk smack about all this stuff and don't look at basics like BONDS INTERNALS PROGRAM TRADING INSTITUTIONAL CAPPING MARKET DEVELOPMENT MARKET INTERNALS and correlated markets - DAX...
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    ETFs for shorting the market

    "I dunno..there is qid but you can just short the dia,spy, or qqqq" but not in an IRA etc. can't short stocks (ETF's also) in an IRA. you CAN short futures, single stock futures (including DIA SSF), and buy reverse ETF's DOG, QID, etc..
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    Is China crashing?

    gang of four... (one of my fave bands from my youth btw...) here tis! http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/mdc_international.html?mod=mdc_topnav_2_3004
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    I Have Done It Again

    great post. fwiw, this is something i see in many, if not most traders, although often to a lesser degree. imo and ime, a trader is more likely to fail due to emotional/psychological shortcomings, than to analytical shortcomings. iow, while you do need a methodology with an edge - it...
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    Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Right Now!!

    "When will people realise the market is rigged?" classic loser-trader-meme when you can't trade it, it's "rigged" lol in the long run, good stocks go up period. the us economy, and the US stock market are the greatest longterm wealth producing things ever known to mankind...
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    YM Volume vs. # of participants

    it pays to keep in mind that in the futes - about 85-90% of the volume (total contracts is traded) is transacted by less than 10 % of the participants.
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    Theme song of the day

    tears for fears did the original
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    Can someone explain this..ES

    a fair portion of the overnight action is due to foreign action remember that foreigners can buy US stocks via ADR's etc and this will also help move the market accordingly and remember, the ES is a vehicle for both hedging AND speculation
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    Don’t DEFEAT yourself before the trade is over!

    props to puretick. the loser traders on here will continue to bash. give it a trial! fwiw, i've never been to puretick and im not associated with them. their videos are decent loser traders will bash others to make up for their own insecurity. winning traders will learn from...
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    Dow futures up 51

    "Looks like another big day for the bulls and looks like my account goes down another few k. Market is rigged..." sorry, but people like you DESERVE to lose money #1 the market is not rigged. people only say that when the market moves OPPOSITE to what they predict. #2 stop ego...
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    Most $$$$ is made by selling puts and calls!!!

    op's "logic" does not LOGICALLY follow. assume for the sake of argument that 90% of options expired worthless it does not LOGiCALLY follow thus that more money is made by selling vs. buying it logically follows that money is made more FREQUENTLY but not that MORE money is made selling...
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    when S&P makes all new highs...

    never ceases to amaze me how (bad) traders and pundits live in the past correct, we have been in an amazing bull market, but they fail to really recognize it because... but since the nasdaq (yesterdays bull market barometer) hasn't returned to its highs - well.. people are using the wrong...
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    What to watch with the YM?

    Adv/Decl Tick program buys and sells Trin bonds crude indexes (small caps, big caps, S&P, SPEWI, etc.)
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