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I thought Forex was the biggest game in town...I've seen numbers like $5.3 trillion dollar business just between the banks themselves per day. I think Forex is a big game -mainly for the big banks but not for the individual. An individual on Wall Street can rise up on their own and start...

Here is a cool futures trader film off the beaten path about a futures trader - I think every futures trader will really like this one .

Stocks.... a fools game gaming fools. And therein leads to their demise as we know it now. _____________________________________________________________________________ Go ahead and hate on the stock market while many of us traders are basking in the after glow of profits, more profits, and an...

I do the same - swing trade everything with mostly classic patterns at least 2 months in the making on he weekly charts and one or two of my own. Will play breakouts and failed breakouts from channels - bear/bull traps. My favorite being major capitulations with large tails. Volume is king.

The Asia markets are said to be 80% humans & 20% computers - The charts look like ours once did. If you have IB you can pay $2 month to trade futures on the Singapore exchange. It is easier to stay in a position without HFTs creating violent spikes.

I am discretionary/swing trader based on 20% classic chart patterns and 80% aggressive risk mgmt. - it took me about 8 years to get dialed in, that was about 14 years ago. I do believe strongly that a trader can have several edges - just got to think outside the box, and do what others are...

the only substitute for experience is math. math is far more expedient. There is no substitute for experience in trading, no books, academia, professional career such as a doctor or architect will suffice as experience. Since the markets existed brilliant mathematicians of their era have...

I worked with a group of scientists who spend our spare time on quantitative finance researches Dude, you walked into a bear trap - Yea, I was in on it....

At 16 I was in love with the Katrina twins, partying, motocross, surfing, and playing the strat on a full Marshall stack/at full volume inside a double wide trailer. Banks are the evil empire. Not to late to turn on, tune in, & drop out from the rat race.

Results – Their overall accuracy is around 53%. When they consider the difference between the top decile and the bottom decile predictions, they get 3.35% per month, or 45.93% annualized return. ____________________________________________________________________________ In back testing he gets...

I would be highly critical of anyone you don't know and trust well that are selling services for traders if they are not providing an independently audit of at least 5 years minimal if they are young and 10 years if they are older.

Putting this troll on ignore... He double down on his complete ignorance, what a clown.

Pinabetal - HFTs don't concern me so much because I am swing trading. It is not a matter of blame but knowing how things work - you don't seem to care about that at all as evidenced by your grasp of a megaphone pattern. You may have been at it for decades - so why haven't you a clue man? Your...

You are very misinformed if you think HFTs are good for traders - you are obviously a rank novice without a clue. Some HFTs play the intra-day spreads, other HFTs play the common entry signals from indicators and chart patterns commonly used mainly by day traders that result in clustered...

Agreed - That so called 'Megaphone' of yours does not come close to a valid pattern. Not to mention it was never intended for intra-day - it is applied to the weekly and daily charts since it typically takes about 2 months to play out. Sure, you will see patterns on smaller time frames - the...

See if this helps you any: https://www.lightspeed.com/active-trading-blog/entities-provide-tax-benefits-traders/ http://greencompany.com/ http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/09/incorporate-active-trading.asp

'If investors really want to place bets on equity market volatility or use them as hedges, the VIX-related ETF and ETN products are acceptable but highly-flawed instruments. They certainly have a strong convenience aspect to them, as they trade like any other stock. That said, investors looking...

All system based & AI is rooted in the programmers discretionary thinking - this chart illustrates that concept. At the and of the day you still have to have the skills/instinct, courage, risk management. etc to get anywhere. AI goes way back and has not over taken discretionary for the reason...

You need a LARGE bankroll to make substantial profits in equities/ETFs; if you have less than 25,000 dollars, you can't daytrade. _____________________________________________________________________________ You can swing/trend/position trade with as little as few thousand. The less money you...

majority of traders trade with leverage above 50:1 mostly off shore i assume, I personally trade1:400 __________________________________________________________________ Virtually every pro trader state that not risking more than 2% of your capital on a trade is the most important aspect to have...