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    this fed decision

    i wish i knew how to trade... so many $$$ just floating in front of my eyes
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    this fed decision

    rates up 500 basis points... just for fun
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    takeovers/mergers

    "The risk is that the deal falls apart, or the terms are renegotiated." how common is this?
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    takeovers/mergers

    this morning i had the chance to buy some of tlg for 2.40 this article says that its getting bought out and shareholders are getting 2.50 when this happens is it a sure thing? if i were to buy what could cause me to lose money? is there any fine print i should be reading? will the stock price...
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    Thinking errors

    something in my brain just clicked and i think i can hear the gears starting to turn
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    triangle arbitrage

    would i be wasting my time looking for arbitrage in more complex situations (in forex or other markets)? if they do exist how hard are they to find?
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    triangle arbitrage

    was there ever a time when you could do this?
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    triangle arbitrage

    if i go short eur/usd short usd/jpy long eur/jpy under normal circumstances i would have a net of 0 am i correct? (neglect the spread) then all i have to do is wait until there is a divergence in my favor (or simply enter when the divergence occurs) due to certain pairs being oversold/overbought...
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    Why Daytrade????

    I think this is very true for me. I must say I do think of the market as being like a game where you have to figure out how to beat it. Before I started trading a used to play a game called World of Warcraft. I played prety much every day (had 3 lvl 60 chars) and I had thousands of gold...
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    Market Makers

    I am looking for resources to learn about how market makers work inside out as I believe this is an important part of trading. So far my research has found nothing more than: "Market makers provide liqidity and make money on the bid/ask spread" To me this seems like a neglected area of...
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    Fractal Analysis?

    I am not an expert on any of this but I have done some reading on these subjects as i find them interesting myself. From what I have found I dont think there is any kind of huge edge you can get from these subjects in the markets but that is not to say that they are useless. I think they could...
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    what is the rule of 10? I did a google search for it but i could only find a reference to playing a card game i dont know how to play and i dont understand how it would relate to trading.
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    while (!Rich) { if (Stockprice.Goingup == true) { Buystock(); } elseif (Stockprice.Goingdown == true) { Sellstock(); } }
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    A tale of a novice trader

    These were my thoughts exactly. But as time progressed I thought to myself that it must be foolish to trade a live account first and that my wish to stay trading live must be the mindset of a gambler. Altho I am having second thoughts for several reasons: 1) your post 2)Im not loosing huge...
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    A tale of a novice trader

    i used to paper trade (kind of) with tradefreedom's demo account and it sucked... when you would enter a stop loss it would only work some of the time ( i think it got triggered by live price instead of simulator price and this does not work when data is delayed) and there was never any short...
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    A tale of a novice trader

    I would be with ib already but I have 6 months till im 21
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    A tale of a novice trader

    do you have to transfer your money to them and set up a real account to access the paper trade account usually?
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    A tale of a novice trader

    anyone know where i can get whatever the best papertrading account is?
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    A tale of a novice trader

    seeing as how i only make $8 an hour filling bins with flour at bulk barn 4k is alot of money to me so i think i will keep my risk exposure low (in fact probably more often in about the range of 1%) given the fact that 1) im not good at trading yet 2) if i were to increase my risk exposure to...
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    A tale of a novice trader

    86/4000 = 0.0215 = 2.15%
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