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That chart GWB posted is a joke - everybody knows that most of Europe has a very low rate of gun related murders. Only Mexico & Brazil have a higher gun homicide rate than the USA. That topology GWB posted is wishful thinking but not fact based. The NRA has a big time profit motive and...

Often many newer traders do not factor in trading costs and frequency into their trading plan. I had heard that experienced traders recommend keeping their total costs below 2% of their capital.

For me it was risk mgmt - it gave me a lot of confidence and so far has kept me profitable for 13 out of the last 14 years. It was like a Rocky film where in the big fight he is getting pounded by everything his opponent could throw at him and was still on his feet, he realizes he can win the...

I live in a state with extremely low gun ownership and it is one of the safest in the nation - Hawaii - super safe - it is very rare to hear of any gun related deaths. So that debate is busted. Trying to find a one off will not compensate for the national statistics. “The five states with the...

This is 4th grade level rebuttals of people with a low I.Q. that fail to look at real fact based data. Your apathy is on display! The NRA has brainwashed the mentally lazy masses. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gun-suicide-idUSBREA0J1G920140120

When you debate a topic that is fine but by labeling it as horseshit is real apathetic - sounds like 4th grade level debating skills. If you want to debate bring it on, everything I said is fact based.

The whole gun thing has gone into mass insanity. Overseas travelers going to the USA are often warned they are entering one of the most violent countries in the world that is not in a civil war. Guns are like an addiction - the more we have, the more people that get killed, the more people...

Classic TA has always been viewed in a negative light going back long before most traders around today were even born. Yet the one classic TA trader I keep an eye on cleared over 50% in 2016 - just a hair over his average over the last 3 decades - This makes him of one of the most winning...

When you say small, you mean 1 contract? A week? _________________________________________________________________________ It will depend on your trading capital, experience, tolerance for risk, etc. The basic theme is aspiring traders typically will size way larger than experienced traders...

Small positions rock - much harder to get shaken out of a trade. It's one of those odd trading paradoxes - when you go small you often make more money.

With a small account if your any kind of an 'active trader' you will have to pull of a miracle and make %100 in profits ... just to break even! This is a large reason for the dismal success rate of day traders, because if they understood the math of it, or listened to the pros to start with they...

IB long wait time to get help They have a live web chat which has always been nearly real-time support the few times I used it.

Good point Robert - Although the original poster was talking about the ES contract. I was not aware, but not suprised that IB charged a premium if your account is not 3x greater than their margin requirements.

In market lore, copper is dubbed the metal with a Phd in economics due its reputed ability to portend the coming of recessions and expansions. Besides watching the dollar, 10 year, $SOX copper is the one commodity I keep a close eye on.

Fully robotic girl friends are catching on in Japan - maybe it will be the next big thing?

As if this topic needs more input: The cost to carry a futures contract, without a roll involved if it expires, is the sum of: slippage, commissions, exchange fees, & bid-offer spreads.

Someone on here that runs a brokerage had said in the past that paper trading is for learning your trading platform - how to put the various order types, alerts. etc. but is useless for learning how to trade. I could not agree more. Learning with a small position is recommended - small meaning...

If your filing as a C corp for the only purpose of getting a lower tax rate on their stock profits when trading/investing is not a full time job that it could appear to the IRS calls "abusive tax shelter'. When in doubt.. doubt or better yet consult a tax professional in your state. Drawbacks...

Limit orders, that is what the uninformed crowd mostly uses. More experienced traders up to pro level abandoned limit orders many years ago. Stops may not be the thing to do for scalpers - for swing traders stops are a good tool so we don't have to stare at the monitor all day. The only person I...

Singapore (SGX) is the exchange. The futures that I found are liquid enough to trade and the foreign regulatory is decent with minimal HFT - mostly used for market making for a smaller portion of the orders- spoofing is supposed to be prohibited. They also have the Indonesia & Thailand futures...