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lol all the responses here makes me wonder if our current trading "truths" were typed out by monkeys. :D

what about MBAs? is there even a PhD Quantitative Finance? i think QF only goes up to Masters. Perhaps physics, mathematics etc.

yeah the indexes have been stuck since the dot com bubble.

actually my train of thought goes: "woah 80% of trader don't make money. almost 100% of traders knows the trend is our friend. 50% of traders including college grads and Ivy League smarty pants have backtesting software. Now, if going with the trend has positive expectancy why would 80% of...

oops, any links?

so is this the holy grail? -enter trades in the direction of the trend. I don't think so. if it was this easy 80% of the trading population won't be losing.

hey hey thats true. trading is waiting! no idea why all those books says trading is exciting. how the heck do we trade for excitment? i even tried 1 min chart scalping and its slow-mo.

anything that makes money consistently on a mthly basis.

The be all end all thread on whether the Trend is friend or foe. It has become a sort of often spoken "fact" that "The Trend Is Your Friend". I wonder, does this belief have any prove behind it? "Trade with the trend" or "The trend is your friend". These statements imply: 1) Entering...

wtf 5 weeks paid vacation?? u work in the USA? here in SE Asia we get about 3 days paid vacation LOL. (okay i'm making up the numbers. probably 1 week heh) $100k per year is how much after all the nasty taxes?

i see i see, thanks for explaining. u must be pretty bored. :D

oh yeah. i hate those too. how i wish the job market is saturated with those boring production conveyor belt jobs you see in cartoons like The Simpsons (marge's job). stand there whole day, zero human interaction, zero mental usage, walk away with a paycheck every month. my fren worked for...

if i can make money trading...why the heck would i want a job?

lol. the way i see it, if everyone takes their quotes from one place it is about as official as it gets. your point abt banks being able to make deals on currency not going thru Reuters is moot since i can make deals not going thru Nasdaq too.

European fishing port has free healthcare? So they'll let you fish for free? I'm seriously interested since I'll need some kind of a living while trying to trade. :D

So if I sell you my shares in private would a 3rd party know it? We don't have to go through NASDAQ or NYSE for that right? What about preferred stocks? Privately sold options? :eek: Well duh, i wrote it displaying 3,5,10 M didn't I? lol. the thing is, i heard traders complaining the max...

Unless you love your job. :eek:

And die to the various diseases which costs a bomb to treat. Of course he will also have the pleasure of selling his wife and kids die to various interesting conditions which he has no money to afford medical care for. What a full and busy life! :D

I see. Isn't most interbank volume executed thru Reuters? Is there slippage on IB's Ideal Pro? Heard some people say there are slips. Is max tradeable size 1.5M? I heard also that even if we lift the offer we can only execute max 1.5M leveraged amount. Even though the order book has...

Thats the official exchange i'm talking about. Price at 1.19999 now. Buy limit at 1.20005, if price hits 1.20001 on Oanda, you don't get filled. You have to wait for it to move again. Why is this bad? The last digit, the "pipette" is RANOMLY GENERATED by Oanda. Meaning without it you...