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Hey. I was wondering if anyone has dealt with this dilemma. How come it seems trading and risking newly gained profit is a better idea than risking initial capital? I get these ideas that in a profitable position it would be smart sometimes to unhedge, set a trailing stop at to protect...

can someone also explain to me what being indexed means? :dunce::D

strange that the eurodollar doesn't seem to reflect this statement. anyone know why it didn't correct after the speech?

im curious. if you consistently lose money. why dont you just do the opposite of what you feel you should do? or are you losing less than the cost of trading?

do you have a torrent link so that i may pirate it? :D

someone mind explaining to this newbie what film you are talking about?

nope. im going to go watch t.v now.

Interesting strat. Thanks for the thread. Ripley. Who said anything about losing 100,000$?

why did you put this thread under trading and not chit chat?

what was the quote problem this morning? how exactly can you detect slower quotes? I did notice that the spread on USO on my paper account did'nt tighten up until about 9:50~.

anyone know if either bloomberg or reuters offer apis to their feeds that allow news events to be piped directly into a 3rd party app?

thank god you arnt spending your time researching something actually worth while. like climate change, alternative energy or real medical research. im sure the trading research based celebrity you gain will last throughout the ages :p stick with golfing.

becoming a trader... not for the money? what. are you doing it for the social good? :p

mind explaining how you lost 3 mil in 6 years? did you put all your money in brex gold or enron? :(

PhDs are overrated. there is nothing you can do for your doctorate that you cant do in the private sector and actually get significant funding for the research. the catch is only people with something to offer get the private sector research jobs. have fun paying for your letters :p

there is no advantage. say you buy X amount of EURUSD and sell Y amount of EURUSD thats the same as just having a (X-Y) position on. why not originally buy (or sell if Y>X) (X-Y) units if you enter the trades at the same time. you gain absolutely nothing by hedging against the same security...

stupid question. im curious about why you keep mentioning interest. regardless of which direction the trade is on. i wasn't under the impression that interest is earnt on leveraged capital. how much interest are you seeing on some of your trades? im curious if this is something i should look into.

sometimes picking tops and bottoms are required. like if you are making a FA play an waiting for a security to correct itself. you cant always wait until the correction starts happening to take a position. sometimes you just have to take a position, eat losses until the correction that you know...

apologizing in advance . but am i the only one who feels that this situation is slightly analogous to a drunk driver killing themselves by hitting a tree? is it the fact that he is 'dying' and not 'dead' rather than that he won some money that makes this more tragic and worth our...

i was wondering if any scalpers out there scalp for only 0.5 - 1 bps? is catching profit so small a bad method? i guess it matters if you are scalping on trends or small volatility.