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I believe the author has a point because sp 500 is in fact driven by VIX ...I am sorry if you did not know it until now

Been there 3 years . I found out because I understand how market behaves better now, thanks to the findings from my research. So I eventually found out they were making fake calls. These fake ones were really persistent and use several other accounts to support their posts to mislead others...

In fact, what you are trying to understand is speculative activity, which involves buying when price rises and selling when price falls. This activity leads to the boom and bust in prices and this may seem like arbitrage but it's a just market destabilizing activity.

Hey, Swim. I am back home. I been going to investing.com for 3 years because I found there are more people. It was much more fun to discuss trading there. Just this week, I've realized that most traders there are actually fake ones. They were brokers and there to make fake calls to mislead real...

Quite often, you come across weird move. There is no particular reason if you are seeking from fundamental perspective. I don't really get what you mean by arbitrage...historically, arbitrage activity involves high risk and low returns...it's actually a textbook concept. In the real world, I...

How about currencies/commodities? For example, pound and cross-pairs are quite volatile everyday.

How many traders actually trade eurchf pair, dear ? probably, one or two in 1,000 traders so I won't care much about it...having said that, textbook stuff like cost of carry thing won't really work in real markets.

What is your trading strategy, swim...think I never asked you this...

Dude, do you think people lose money on real account because of emotion? People believe they do well on demo because they don't lose REAL money. They randomly leave A few positions open and wake up next morning, finding that position is earning over $1,000. That's called illusion dear, not...

If wall streets only drive up stock prices then it would not be an issue. The problem is they drive up commodity prices as well. Everyone is talking about rising oil prices, which is disconnected from fundamentals of supply and demand

Hope you are not affected by rising oil prices then...dear

Thanks for your priceless advice, dear. The key role that speculators play in bond, metal, foreign exchange,stock index and commodity markets,is creating bubbles which are eventually followed by crashes. Believe or not that is the truth , dear. 99% significant results from tick data over the...

They provide liquidity to the market but that does not mean they are the driving forces. They inflate prices, create bubbles and eventually trigger crashes, so they were blamed for real estate bubbles in 2007-08. But I know where you get your idea from ... TEXTBOOK

Only introducing more regulations to discourage mere speculation will prevent another financial crisis. 2007-08 crisis was caused by speculation.

I recommend demo cos you are a newbie

In finance and economc conferences, most of presenters use too much tech terms. You hear yawns everywhere. In economics and finance classes, they emphasize too much maths. Come on, people should talk in general english and that's how I do in lectures and conferences and I get students' as well...

Thanks, man :) We are elite traders after all so it is not surprising that everyone wins eventually. Believe or not, I held a long at 1.293 in pound yesterday and it made a shootup to 1.303 so again had a green day. Trading after all isn't that hard. Rather, I will have rare losing days in the...

I actually don't understand your idea but as far as holy grail is concerned, one needs to analyse who drives prices and how they behave in the market. Besides, you need to monitor spot markets closely when you trade on futures markets. Having said that, if you have been on a good run, that's...

Latour, bottled in 2010, seems quite expensive for someone who isn't interested in wine investment ... but those who are obsessed with wine tasting and have a good knowledge of wine history, wine investment may seem an attractive option. The big difference between me and other academics? Most...

I have investigated oil, food and metals as well as forex and bond markets and have found that all those markets are being manipulated. I have come across vix manipulation news while I was searching for more market manipulations. Unfortunately, I wasn't really interested in VIX so I didn't...