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Oh and I forgot: "No MM's" -- nope, what you get is far worse. "No commissions" -- wrong, you pay alot more in the built-in pip spread. "easier to trade" -- absolutely and utterly false. etc etc etc

I highly recommend not resorting to trading currencies just because of the smaller lot size -- especially at a retail fx shop. FX retail has basically become the graveyard of daytraders thanks to pdt for this reason. If you can't make money in stocks, you will have twice as hard a time in fx...

For intraday timeframes, I would say any kind of charting fails to deliver an accurate picture, at least when talking in terms of TA. Time charts might be inconsistent, but tick charts would not give any indication of the pace of a move, which takes on a greater signficance on the shorter time...

I think the "fat burning" zone is somewhat misleading, I believe it's true that after a certain point in HR you will max out your fat burning rate for that session of exercise, but you will actually burn more fat overall the harder you work. If you can comfortably maintain a higher HR and have...

I enjoy running but don't take things that seriously, just a means to an end fwiw. Looks interesting, though it would seem kinda difficult to correct one's own form in motion w/o say videotaping yourself.

Just run run run. I hit a plateau last year running 3 x 45 minutes a week; upped it to 4 x 60min and dropped a few more % points fat. You just gotta keep pushing. Crunches will do nothing really -- cardio, controlled diet, and overall muscle gain to help burn calories are basically...

Around major economic news releases, EUR/USD and bund should spike inversely, but beyond that they are pretty much two separate markets.

These guys are making good points -- it's not a matter of what you like best, but what works now. At this stage, what you like and are comfortable with will most likely be the opposite of what you need to do to make money. As bitstream said, there are inefficiencies to exploit each and every...

Are you just shorting this because it went higher at a faster rate than normal? What if it's because something is going to happen in the near future, say maybe a buyout offer?

I'll take the tail over that setup anyday. Fortunately, I don't think the globex-interbank lag is any greater than that experienced by a retail trader trading nyse or amex stocks, likely far less actually. And don't worry fxxx, I understand and completely embrace the fact that I am trading...

I know that interbank is where the bulk of commercial transactions take place, but for those funds and institutions who take quick, intraday positions on a speculative basis -- I'm assuming they trade vs market makers who provide bids and asks all day on the interbank platform? As for the...

Thanks for the quick replies. So I suppose the total globex volume still doesn't compare to how much is transacted in the cash market? Is the interbank market as or more liquid than globex when it comes to intraday trading, or is the vast majority of cash transactions OTC?

How much of a typical day's action gets its impetus from the floor traded contracts? Is there still significant volume at the pits, and do certain currencies conduct a greater percentage of size on the floor? Thanks in advance.

Maybe because the gains you've previously made were basically "lucky" trades -- ie, random movement that happened to go your way. And deep down, you realize they were just the product of luck. Knowing that, you just shrug and keep feeding the coins, pulling the lever, and crossing your...

Nothing can take the place of experience, of just sitting on your ass all day and just watching the bid/ask/prints. But I think tape reading isn't just a matter of staring at one single ticker or tape, but the ability to judge the action in context with other factors in reaching a decision...

It's pretty shaky as I just don't play enough to have my outs down by rote. I can do the routine calculations but I suppose the implied odds would be far more significant here. My question would be, do the pot odds usually hold up in decision making anyways, given that the better players...

Nice trade Ivan. Thinking about going long here as well? I think that may work for a stab at week highs.

Don't apologize, I've spent more time reading about NL than I have spent playing it, so I appreciate everything you posted there. Thanks. It's funny, I lost interest in limit poker online a while ago, and quit the game for about a year. But it's really been my trading as of late which has...

Thanks for the tips guys. :)

Am going down to AC in a week or so, gonna try my hand at no-limit ring games while I'm there. I've only really had experience at limit and sng's online, and most of the literature out there is on nl tourney play. Any regulars at the nl ring tables want to share some basic tips for this...