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I use the IG platform. I have an 8pip spread on EUR/USD. What platform do you use?

How far back do you go to determine what the current range is?

Do you set take-profit and stop-loss when you enter the trade? Do you win and lose the same amount? Meaning, do you set take-profit at "x" and stop-loss at "-x"? Or is take-profit 2x, or 3x? Do you have a set dollar amount that you risk on every trade? Or a certain percentage of your account...

Does it require you to watch charts throughout the day?

This is a system you invented yourself? Is it a combination of technical indicators? What is the win % of this system?

What was obvious? What are those buy signals?

Well I wouldn't make such a trade again. I just thought at the time... What's the worst that could happen? I guess I found out. Although I did make back about $9,000 in gold the past 2 days. Still down 23% since the purchase, though.

It was the first time I ever had an amount of cash in a checking account that would be worth investing. I looked at what I thought was going on in the economy (and what many others agreed with at the time), and I bought things that would do well if the economy went down. I looked at the...

Here's a brain teaser for you... Back in September, bonds, gold, and stocks were all at all-time highs. (Okay stocks were slightly off, but the point remains valid). Where did all the money come from? Was there something out there that was losing value? Also, if those safe haven investments...

I didn't use technical analysis at all.

I'm already familiar with how bonds work. Is trying to technically analyze this any different from anything else?

I work way harder than you do. And I don't mean staring at charts or sitting at a computer. I have repeatedly said I would back test anything that seems reasonable. Can't promise I'll do that right away because I have other obligations that are more important. Part of me has already come to...

What makes you say that? How do you know what Bernanke has in his personal portfolio right now?

But there's nothing saying that his system is simple. For all I know, it could be based on multiple indicators, which themselves each involve complex mathematics. Imagine how time consuming it would be to calculate even a simple moving average without the help of computers.

If you weight for the difference between profit and loss per trade. If you place take-profit at 3x the distance of the stop-loss, then you are 3x less likely to hit it. If it were random that is.

That's fundamental analysis. This was supposed to be to find out if technical analysis is even possible. Do you have good enough results to definitively say that you know what you're doing? The fact is, even the "best" economists in the world can look at the same data and have differing...

Don't you mean 51%? And for all the time spent, I'd hope you could go for much better.

Does he say in their exactly what the system is? I know it says it linear regression but if I wanted to duplicate the system would I be able to do it based on the information provided? Since I am not looking to watch charts everyday I think it only makes sense for me to bet that the market will...

True. And even the best are wrong sometimes. Soros made many losing bets.

So you're a position trader?