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    What are the top books for new forex traders to read?

    This is terrific: http://www.amazon.com/Forex-Price-Action-Scalping-depth/dp/9090264116
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    The Best Trading Proverbs

    The market is not sentient. It is not a living breathing organism. Look at it as a stationary object at any moment, it usually has already tipped its hand.
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    Losing money consistently

    Its easy to lose money because you have fear. Fear is eating away your account. To dispel fear, you have to understand probability and accept uncertainty. Do you have an edge? I certainly hope you do. When you see your edge appear on your chart, hit the button, don't think just hit...
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    What are good futures products for day trading?

    Crude CL used to be a great instrument to trade but in the last two months or so it has completely dried up, I'm not kidding, I bet even the regular Crude traders on here are not trading it right now. Hopefully it will pick up soon. I've been trading the TF, Russell 2000 lately, decent moves...
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    Getting out of the boredom

    Having a lot of free time on your hands is something you need to get used to as a full time trader from home. I trade from home as well and have no kids or pets. Wife is gone most of the day and is usually home late. So I basically trade until noon NY time only and then head to the gym...
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    So who made the big bucks this week (ending May 2)?

    XE, What type of trader are you? Technical or Fundamental? What is your holding period? Thanks.
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    What was the ***last*** thing you had to master before becoming profitable?

    I had to bump this Hall of Fame thread to put in my 2 cents. The last thing that had to fall in place for me to becoming consistently profitable was: giving up attachment to outcome. Having no mental anguish over a loss knowing that it is one itty bitty trade only. When you can do this...
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    New book on how traders are beating the HFT guys

    Amen! Thank you. Let's go back to discussing the book. I read it as well, very good interviews.
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    Motivation and Encouragement

    embrace uncertainty, understand and accept probability, become comfortable with anxiety. surrender your trading hopes, aspirations, fears and let the trade flow as it inevitably will. the past doesn't predict the future, every moment in the market is unique. all you - the trader - needs...
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    Let's CHAT Crude Oil. Share ideas, observations.

    free chat room in the vein of DB's NQ chatroom: http://stinto.net/4oz8y
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    Mind of a Market Addict

    my friend TIRAS. thousands of traders are suffering and have suffered from the same ailments you are describing, it is a natural process and its part of the journey of learning how to trade profitably. you being honest about it is a first huge step. now how long you want to linger or get...
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    WSJ - Small Investors Jump Back Into the Trading Game

    I think the Top might be close. Everyone seems to be buying stocks according to the WSJ. Small investors are diving back into stock trading, driving business at some discount brokerages to near record levels. After a 15-year period of volatility marked by the dot-com crash and the...
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    How long did it take you to find your edge?

    to quote another trader: "the only edge in the markets is Front Running and Insider Trading, both illegal" for the rest of us the EDGE is DISCIPLINE to follow your plan and being able to cut your Losses when you realize your trade has failed and to let your profits gain while adding to them when...
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    Looking for trading space in NYC

    I used to rent space at Green Desk in Dumbo, Brooklyn. I liked them, no frills, lockable office space for $450 a month and the internet worked fine, there was a guy there that ran a small fund by himself also. I trade from home now and have been doing it for 5 years but it has been...
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    Crude Futures Chat Room

    Lets try this again today. Let's analyze and chat about Crude Futures here today: http://stinto.net/tyjra
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    Crude Futures Chat Room

    Lets share ideas about the Crude market. Free chat room: http://stinto.net/tyjra
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    Crude Futures Chat Room

    seeing DB and gang have a free NQ chat room, was wondering if us Crude Traders wanted to share live analysis of the Crude market as well. I just created a free chatroom, just come join. http://stinto.net/tyjra
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    Tradingpsychologie - Norman Welz

    there was also a cover story on Dr. Welz in Trader's Magazine: http://tradersonline-mag.com/01_ezine/01_traders/en/2013/03/index.html#/6/zoomed
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    Tradingpsychologie - Norman Welz

    has anybody read this book in English by Norman Welz yet? http://www.amazon.com/Tradingpsychologie-denken-handeln-Spitzenperformance-Mentaltraining/dp/3898797007 Its been getting really good write ups: "Tradingpsychologie," is a book on trading psychology that was published in Germany in 2012...
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    If this stupid government shuts down are the stock mkts open or closed?

    Is the NYSE, NASDAQ, DOW, CME, CBOT, NYMEX an arm of the US Federal government? (although with the fed buying everything, you could mistake it to be :)
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