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Go eat some turkey. Nobodys trading, markets are going to be shit. Or maybe fade extremes at a fixed spread broker to teach them a lesson.

So FXCMs server is down and cant take orders over the phone and has no clue when they will be back up. What a bunch of jokers. Hope nobody is stuck in a trade.

cable yeah, compounding is another issue. none of those trades overlap from what I remember, the 50:1 initial position risk parameters are still applicable. I think compounding is the most brilliant thing in the world. publix I guess it makes sense you are an options trader with that...

you didnt answer the question. People who trade for a living care about the long run.

no offense man, good reports and all, but you posted days with ALL winners. How many losers would it have taken to wipe your account out? I admit its all about risk, not leverege, but how many pips can you risk with 50 to 1? Account: 1000 Position size 50 000 assume XXXUSD cross at...

hear hear! Im considering my MBA with a heavy weighting towards schools of this kind, so I can get paid to get laid while I trade for my GMAT score.

hey, at least he was paper trading and is scratch in real life. the $20 bill I found in my laundry yesterday beat the street for the past few months it was gone too. Im going to check my couch cushions for more unrealized gains vs investing.

give a city 6 months, figure it out for yourself. as soon as I am independently up and running I will be on the first flight to Rio, Buenos Aires, or Medellin and go from there till some whore tricks me into settling down.

I live in FL we hit the skids a while back. I actually worked in residential RE consulting, then commercial, now financial services during each collapse. Im going to stop jinxing the economy and get an MBA.

everyone I know in commercial brokerage and development is getting KILLED

If the middle class is fucked, were all fucked. Which of the present situations are you referring to?

This is a caricature created to scaremonger anybody who thinks they have something to lose and far from 99% of reality.

how come Obama has a progressive tax structure and he is scaremongered into being painted a marxist? Isnt saving the disappearing American middle class going to keep the worlds economic engine going (save the effect of massive deleveraging) and keep this country from having the gini coefficient...

Haha I said yesterday at the office that the guys who risk alot to make a little (high leverage can make you trade this way). Russian roulette feels fine fun until ... SPLAT!

slippery slope my ass. No one is going to suddenly clamor to be wed to their dog or their daughter, and they would be fucking them married or not, and the fabric of society would not be any more or less unwoven that it currently is. You cling to a faulty intellectual sounding excuse because...

Im not smart Ive just been in the biz. Also, Im smart.

As I stated in the pip poll, more or less: I look for a spot where I can be proved wrong on direction in 20 or so ticks. Figure out what 1.5% of my equity is in relation to the distance between my price and my stop, and from there derive size. Once Im in the money I pyramid up on...

Any firms get the ole cease and desist? I was poking around the NFA site and didnt look like it.

how come bucketshops will give you up to 400 to 1 and they only get 30 to 1 at the bank (if that anymore)? BECAUSE ANYONE USING THAT KIND OF LEVERAGE WILL BLOW UP VERY QUICKLY! THANK YOU COME AGAIN!

well the only use of the poll would be how much volitility outside of technical levels are you treating as "noise" I like a 20 to 30 tick stop and generally look for spots where this is feasable, and figure out my position size from there. I will admit I was using more 15 tick stops a few...