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No one is a loser, just some of our trades (our decisions) are. And Michael, it sounds like you've got >50% winners and considering that you are happily married, I'd say that your winners far outweigh your losers:) Happy Living (trading) Adam

I do not have an MFE degree, nor do I work in the financial industry, so I may not have the answers you're looking for. My post was to try to help you work through the process of mapping out what you need to learn. If you can clearly identify what you need to get to your goal, the decisions...

So starting with the end in mind, what do you need to get there?

Actually, this is a common mispronunciation. It is actually pronounced "Nu-Clear"

Interestingly, I work in government now in a somewhat high profile state organization. I was wondering why I enjoyed it so much... answer: There's no politics (for real) and there's nobody trying to build a corporate culture. Everyone is there because they are qualified and there's none of that...

Actually, I've always enjoyed working with people...

This is the longest thread I've seen on ET Are you still discussing trend following?

A simple yet confusing observation: In the stock market, when holding the underlying pays credits to your account (dividends), the futures trade at a premium. With currencies, when the underlying pays a credit (due to interest rate differentials), the futures trade at a discount. Why?

The LLC should work. Just set one up a few months ago and will soon be doing all our automated trading through it. It takes little time and you get all those benefits already listed in this thread. I'm not a pro trader, but would just like to see how these TradeStation strategies I've developed...

One of my best trades was to stay out on the sidelines

Thanks Apex!

our posts will live on forever........

type: "Pairs AND Trading" and get: blah blah blah... pairs..blah blah ... trading..blah - still, not what I want.

I want to look up "Pairs Trading", so I type: "Pairs Trading" and get: blah blah blah... pairs...blah blah blah ... trading - not what I want PairsANDTrading and get: sorry - no search results How should this search be performed?????

Great thread Frosty... I'm about 2 months behind you as I prepare to trade an automated currency algo Good Luck!!!

I just noticed some exotic currency pairs listed on IdealPro... I count about 18 new currencies now traded against the USD. Pretty cool. Nothing listed on the website tho..

I'd like to set up an FX collar and would like to use long term options. CME options don't look like they trade much.. especially the ones far out. Where do you trade these things?

With the VIX at about 12, would the time value of any given S&P option double when the VIX is at 24? Triple at 36? Essentially, how much more expensive are/were options when the VIX was at higher levels?

I see what you mean. I started thinking about this when I observed that 2:1 funds like UOPIX did not in fact make 2:1 returns as you say. Of course, their time horizon is a single day... I'm looking further out.

Actually, you do. I've been thinking and you could purchase deep in the money calls. The time value is almost nill.. and you get the benefit of the leverage.