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Oh really? I guess all those hedge funds out there must be missing out on something lol.

Who knows? He might lose those funds just as fast or faster. But there is no question that at the present time, the ecn structured globex market offers far less slippage for the individual trader for the major dollar crosses. There is just no reason to stay with paying 3-5 pip spreads each...

Not enough capital.

Thanks for the info.

I'm used to putting my desktop on the floor. I know from periodic cleaning of my older machines that a lot of dust can get sucked into the fans. I just got a brand new machine and am wondering if it's better off on the table, or if there's some other way to minimize dust collection. This...

Nice post. The greater one's confidence in his own abilities, the easier it is to sidestep the emotional roller coaster and take advantage of crowd mentality. It's all about centering your fears and expectations upon yourself where it belongs, where you have control -- and NOT on any...

Actually, you will likely catch 10 out of the last 3 turns. :) There is nothing macd, rsi, bollinger etc will tell you that memory and experience with price action cannot, and much sooner at that.

Currencies have an added element of frustration as a 24-hr market for position traders; nothing like waking up to see a market trading two big figures away since you've gone to bed.

There's a certain neurosis that develops among those who want to be traders yet have no clue how to time an entry nor deal with taking losses, and have given up trying. The key symptom seems to be the need to write long-winded posts in order to explain how they've tried to work their way around...

Looking at a chart and saying "I'd have bought down at this support and sold the blow-off top" works just as well.

Ivan, I know the answers won't help, figured some questions would help clarify why he expects to profit from other traders with this trade. Drasfs, whatever your reasons, if it takes price going down to make you bearish, you know you're behind the curve. Good luck.

Nothing particularly clever -- dumb luck even. But when technicals and fundamentals line up for a while in a market as large as treasuries, I try to find an excuse to take the other side. Fwiw, I trade with a 4-tick stop on ZN, so that's about how much conviction I have in these trades.

Why are you short if you aren't sure? And why are you short 100+ pips down from the open? I think you need to raise the selectivity bar a bit.

I don't normally trade the bonds day to day, but coming in this morning my first idea was that I wanted to buy into any dip after the NFP. I've really no clue as to why it should go up -- all I know is that if someone wanted to buy, that would be a good a time as any *shrug*. Still...

Um, if you have to ask strangers on a forum site, set a stop at break-even and just leave it alone, you might luck out.

I don't think you want to know . . .

It's just an opinion, happens sometimes on these forum things. :) I've followed this thread for a while, and am somewhat familiar with how you trade. But it's one thing to have a pre-meditated scaling plan, quite another to say "wtf is going on here? I guess I'll just avg down". My post was...

Agreed that this pair can make some crazy moves intraday. But not using stops because they keep getting hit is like turning off the house alarm because the burglars keep setting it off. :)

All of a sudden no one uses stops in here? You'd all make coinzy proud :) But seriously, trade to make money, not to be right. Not even the central banks know the "correct" exchange rate between two nations.

Whatever keeps you in the trade I suppose :eek: