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I'm a little confused by this exchange. At first I thought Overnight was insulted because he thought bone was suggesting you need 100k to start trading, which is isn't suggesting. But as I read it again, it seems like Overnight thinks 100k is too little, and Bone thinks its not even necessary...

The trick is, how to get rid of something that is holding you back without scaring everyone else? One of the mandates of the EU is unity, isn't it? So if all of a sudden you're happy to let some countries go, well there goes the whole unity thing. Of course the best thing to do is to get rid...

Out of curiosity, I wonder if I may ask about all your trades/stats. Don't get me wrong, I like the charts you post and your methodology, but in the fast few examples, they have all been winners except for 1 small NQ loss for 2pts I think. So my question is if what you showed over the past few...

Aren't you just proving my point? If these spreads were doing what they were doing because 2 guys were battling eachother, then what the heck does this have to do with fundamentals? As a trader on the outside, would it make sense to stick with the fundamentals, or would it make sense to use...

Fair enough, and I did specifically say that I wasn't familiar enough with his stats. 3% down is certainly not bad at all, and you're absolutely right that managing 10 billion while making 100% is a whole different ball of wax than a 5 million dollar fund. I do wonder about this though. The...

Again, the article states he lost money in 2010 and packed up in 2012. Not sure how bad the losses were, and if 2011 and 2012 were also bad, but it seems to me that first he lost money, and then decided to pack it up, and even worse, he talks about how his heart wasn't in it any more. Well...

Actually, I would say the irony is even though he had the best resources and info, he still couldn't make money. I don't want to looking too deeply into this, but your clue about suppressed volatility is a huge clue. Many traders today I read are suffering because of the lack of volatility...

Hmm.. I wonder what happened. Actually, he answers later, and although you need focus of course, was it that he was losing money that made him lose focus? If he was still raking it in, could he still have been enjoying it? This part is a bit confusing to me. He says he only views technicals...

This part is very interesting, thanks for sharing.

I've noticed that every direct question from me is always turned back onto me and answered by you with more questions. I know trading isn't easy, but direct questions based on stats shouldn't be so hard either as these should be readily available numbers. One common theme of vendors, teachers...

Since you're making this personal, I have an opportunity to do so as well. You and Maverick keep going on and on about how supposedly profitable it is to follow the fundamentals of oil trading and referencing data that is unavailable to the general public. And yet, when asked to provide...

Here we absolutely agree! :) The very specific part of what you say that is the key truism in trading is trusting your own answers. It does kind of make the whole idea behind ET a bit more pointless though.

But this still doesn't answer my question about how predictive fundamental analysis is, and if its any better than what a price action trader could accomplish. Don't get me wrong, every trader has their method, and if fundamental analysis is what some people feel comfortable doing then fine...

Thanks for the reply. I'm still curious about how the stats stack up for trading via fundamentals. If its true that whatever I read about oil is peanuts compared to the real fundamentals as bone points out, then this is fine, but I still want to know how this helps you make trading decisions...

Since you are on this fundamental bandwagon, may I ask for your trade stats in reference to trading oil? I heard from a very good source here at ET that you have blown out your account multiple times. I have no idea what time frame this was in, nor what you were trading, but the fact still...

Thanks for all the info. I do not in any way claim to know all the fundamental factors. But I still have to wonder, given all this info that you are gathering, how is it helping your trading? I assume fundamental trading is longer term (weeks and months), but there must still be an element of...

Wait, so what you're saying is your interest is only going up from here? :D

Wait, so what you're saying is that first we have to pay someone to get fundamental information, which sounds ironic because fundamental information should be universal in my opinion, not based on some special research firm, but then you're also saying that we need an ability to disseminate this...

This is where I disagree with you, even though I do agree with much of what you say. Perhaps if you just come to ET for entertainment, then these calls don't matter, but assuming someone is a real trader, and wanting to speak with other real traders, even if they aren't looking for help, it...

Interesting. Although I'm fairly unfamiliar with the complexities of what you post, it does appear that perhaps now, we will almost be able to really say "they hunted my stops!" It sounds like if you don't opt in, your orders will be segregated, and hence not consolidated, and hence you will...