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    Lost half of my years salary in a week!

    MP, It's the way you try to avoid all liabilities and ignore key questions, it makes you sound like a scam-artist. Maybe if you learn to take some personal responsibility, people would change their opinion of your lack of integrity.
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    becoming emotionless

    I looked up for "becoming emotionless" and this is all I've found. http://www.wikihow.com/Become-Emotionless Is there any books or articles anyone here could recommend that's more in depth just on this subject?
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    "Scalper's" Im looking for a good System

    simple system- buy low sell high :p
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    Jokes

    The guy walks up to the bartender. "Hey I'll bet you $100 I can sing with my ass" Bartender "OK, 100 bucks, do it right now" The guy jumps on the bar, pulls down his pants, boxers, starts to take a shit. Bartender screams "What the fuck are you doing?!" Man looks at the bartender "I...
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    Crooks Hijack Online Brokerage Accounts

    I totally forgot to mention something. There's an easy solution for potential malware/spyware hackers try to install on your machine: Create a Limited user account (via Start- Control Panel- User Accounts) and only log in the administrative account when you need to delete/modify/install...
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    Crooks Hijack Online Brokerage Accounts

    Simplest solution for email- Get a new email address, let everyone know of your migration to the new address. Logging out, configuring your browser to delete cookies automatically, and stopping untrusted website scripts will also lower your chances of some spammer's target or "take over" your...
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    Where can I find good charts for forex

    www.metaquotes.net The metatrader4 software's nice, and it's free just sign up for a demo account.
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    Your Chances of Success

    Oh man that makes a lot of sense, I'm gonna remember that for the rest of my life, haha :D
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    Your Chances of Success

    That's a great article. It made me realize I have no idea if there's merit to the claim that 90-95% of start up businesses, traders fail in the first year.
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    It is IMPOSSIBLE to make money in the markets

    This thread's sure made me feel a hell of a lot better :)
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    Have you read the newbie faq?
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    Yes I see your point. Though if he wanted semantics he could've just looked up the dictionary. As Clinton would say "How would you define the term, 'it'"?
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    Quotes by famous traders~

    haha that's awesome
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    If their strategies worked, they wouldnt' need them seminars to make money, haha. Damn them all!
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    This is something I have developed after about 40 books in financial probabilities, risk management, technical analysis, economics, and fundamental analysis; then a year of strategy testing, and a year of live trading. You're fooling yourself if you think it's possible to learn from reading a...
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    Gambling probability isn't subjective most of the time, your expectancy at a casino is ALWAYS below 0. Only time you have an edge is when you apply strategy then the term gambling doesn't apply anymore, e.g. card counting, basic strategy at black jack and etc. Trading without a...
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    Is Trading like Gambling?

    You should take a class in statistics. Gambling is generally when you have an expectancy of lower than 0, but you keep buying them lottery tickets because you don't understand the math behind it...
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    Learned my weakness the hard way!

    I've had the same problem for a long time, also with an issue of pulling the trigger. Isn't this a simple matter of discipline? If you trade your strategy flawlessly, taking profit/losses exactly according to your strategy without giving in to your emotional whim, this problem wouldn't exist...
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    best books you've read on trading

    bah I just noticed the "educational resources" section, and had tried to delete/repost this topic there. The website isn't allowing me to do that apparently.
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    best books you've read on trading

    I've just gone through half the books at the school library on trading, and found most of them not so well written or practical. Perhaps this could help all of us filter out the bad ones quickly. Here's my list, 1. Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom By Van thorpe 2. An Introduction to...
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