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Say you have a good profit being long JPY/USD and feel it could go further, but you want to protect the position from a forceful intervention -- what parameter put options would you purchase?

You could have all the skills and the biggest edge in the world but if you lack a good handle on your own psychology it's all worthless. :)

Just drop by the Borgata and play a few hours of blackjack with black chips -- then they might lower the weekend rates for you at the Bellagio :)

Don't feel too bad, my friend had a resting order to buy at 380; he pretty much liquidated into the low :(

I guess the market needs a 30-point shakeout from peak to trough every so often to weed out the less-than-fanatic gold bugs :) How does the number of speculative longs compare historically here? Heard its quite large.

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thx :)

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Someone changed the auto-generated OCA length to 8 digits from ten -- good job! Is it too much to ask for 5? :)

In a casino, it's critical for winners to walk away from the table with their winnings; whether one believes he wins as a result of "lucky streaks" or just statistical anomoly (or expectancy, for those rare players who can maintain an edge), most good casino players heed the golden rule that the...

It's the nature of scaling in and out, it will never produce the greatest possible profit, nor the least. You are in effect admitting that you cannot time the market perfectly and so are willing to lop off the "ends" and be content with the middle ground. re: system developing and testing...

That would be nice too, if the attached stop would automatically be set to a certain number of ticks away from the actual entry price, instead of being set to the price when you loaded the trade. I don't think this would count as a bell or whistle, but just a proper implementation of an...

I think as long as you are patient and scale in on pullbacks, you can go ahead and enter at market (for futures there is a minimal spread 99% of the time); don't be afraid to pay up a single tick after letting the market come to you, you are already ahead of most traders that gun from the hip...

No one knows? Def? :)

I was actually only half-kidding; you asked for money-making opportunities, so I'd say the most profitable trade would be that which is most painful for the most people (since we're all assuming 1040 is the top). :)

I'm convinced that the primary impetus for market change is to wipe out all "proven" edges -- in other words, anything that can be systemized will eventually degrade down to unprofitablility. "Thinking", flexibility, and experience are the keys to knowing what part of one's system has to change...

Buy when SP breaks 1040 again? :p

Try scaling into trades over time, letting the market come to you rather than chasing the move or pushing the trade through at unfavorable prices. I also trade with a tight stop and it's very difficult to enter in mid-trend; if your rhythm is off, what happens is that you get stopped out right...

nevermind :)

I'm dumb, how do you add a link to your profile signature?