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imho both activities are very similar: you have to know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to walk away and when to run. In poker you see the fear and greed in the persons body language, in trading you see the fear and greed in your system. the whole trick is how do you edge the...

Is there not some law that if a company fails the executives are held accountable, can be even punishable with jail? If we start a private company and commit fraud etc and the compnay goes under with debt then we finish up in jail. So why should it be any different for a publicly traded...

you've have not gotten a clue Maria

Why a low end machine? If a screw up happens (and we have seen plenty with bad hardware creating software incompatibilities that are next to impossible to pin down) and you have an open trade then it will cost you more than that a machine is worth. If you are serious about this business...

thats how the wild swings are around: not enough big players to take the other side of your large trade. Take a look at the 10 year notes, it was not that long ago that 1000 or even up to several thousand (and I've personally seen 10000) cars traded did not move the market. Now with a 1000 cars...

I second that - been there done that. There is an old saying: your trading experience is in direct relation to the timeframe you are trading. Obviously GermanTrader was not around when Sept 11 happened - at that rate he would have been blown up if he had an open position. One spike and...

Have had the lot and use TradeStation 2000i. EOD trading is fine, you can drag in MetaStock data format and plenty of that available. Intraday only good for a single symbol at the time and using a third party interface. Works like a charm and full control over data feed (read...

actually sheep farming is not that big part of the economy any longer. world wide there is a big demand for dairy products and the new zealand dairy industry has a major stake in the world wide production and marketing. seen the prices of milk. butter and cheese go up this year? India and...

It are those very carry trades that are at the root of this and cause that the "old rules" of lowering / raising interest rates no longer work. Cannot understand why "the powers in charge" were ever so stupid to implement the free currency trade. Scenario: Japanese house wives borrowing money...

no, it is equivalent to pre WW II Germany: Think about manufacturing having shifted from the cities to further away made possible by trucks and telephone ( = cheaper labour) Think the "easy money" of that having worn thin = everyone started to do it so the "cream" had gone. Think steel...

same here - havre not run any antivirus software for the past 7 - 8 years. They give a false sense of security while chewing up your CPU power. I would add to have a good backup / restore regime coupled with some encrypted "container". Basically what we do is to have one folder holding all...

but are they making money directional trading? that's what I thought no fancy stuff here needed, good ol' TradeStation 2000i does the trick Maria

this is the correct answer. on the other hand if you have one of the business bulk licences then no reactivation is required :-) we are trialing running XP under VMware. Sofar graphics performance is running a lot slower under VMware and we have not migrated. But it is still a better...

There may be some among us that have objective systems to judge the situation..... :p

and that ain't any suprise either. US economy has been based around oil and cars. Manufacturing of cars has been exported and the bottom is about to drop out of oil. Especially when there has been a bacteria discovered that can produce oil from waste cheaper than it can be pumped out of...

look what happened to the economy and value of the currency of the war mongering Nazi Germany ... 50 000 D mark could not even buy a bag of potatoes.... (and that was once one of the strongest currencies together with the cable)

reckon on a 80% drop from the top.... Maria

At the moment the market is pausing but the bottom is not in yet. It is even more than a year away, reckon on at least three to five years before it reverses. The fundamental changes are not in place yet. This is clearly visible. Maria

If the system that you trade has been properly designed and you do not display the price at the side then you will not notice any difference in setup and behaviour, except that the range itself is a lot different. This means to me that the bots have the upper hand and are aggravating the...

Don't think so. I've been saying it before and I am saying it again: The US in its present situation is no different from Nazi Germany. And the Deutschmark was once, before WWII one of the strongest currencies and later on you could not even buy a loaf of bread for 50.000 mark. Maria