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IMHO, it's the flexible traders that don't rely on any pre-planned expectation of price movement that profit most, and likely off the backs of those who do; a highly anticipated report and the ensuing action can never be distilled so simply down to "If X then Y". If you limit your expectations...

For charting, I'd probably still prefer 2 x 19" at lower res for the greater total screen size. Put 2 equal-sized (in inches) charts side by side at different resolutions and you won't see that much difference, so you can fit more on a couple 19" than 1 30" I think.

The retail industry often touts liquidity as one of the reasons to trade fx, which is misleading for small intraday traders since they're forced to trade at an artificially wide spread and a requoted bid/ask (granted, it may be a fair price to charge for the ability to trade micro size lots for...

First off, why assume watching another market would give you any kind of edge over just watching gold alone? If you were told that market X correlates closely to gold, or is inversely related, how does that help you pick turns in the gold market itself? If you place a bet based on some...

I've a hunch things might actually start slowing down a bit for this place. . .

Anyone know how to get the inbox msg list to display subject lines properly in foreign characters? The subject in the body and body itself show the correct character set, but the inbox list of subjects is all garbled.

Sorry if it sounded like I did, it wasn't my intention and would be a pretty ridiculous comparison anyways.

I'm not sure how you've actually managed to rationalize open losses as "integral" to a strategy; I'm guessing you come from the 'It's impossible to time a random market so why try' school of thought and all the weirdness it entails *grin*. But I've no doubt that whatever strategy you use, you...

Whoa there, I really didn't mean for you to take things personally, my comment was on the realized/unrealized differentiation which ALL of us could improve by dispelling, because there is no difference between the two at all -- ie, not closing out or reversing a position just because an open...

Skalpz based his entire persona upon differentiating between realized and unrealized p/l. Word to the wise: mark to market and move on.

I think those entities you cited deal specifically with currency futures. If you have any doubts, and are just interested in trading eur/usd, there's no reason why you shouldn't just trade eur futures through globex.

I've been using realtick since 1999, the one thing I can say is that in the past few years they've improved their stability; server outage has been pretty rare lately. And I'm not sure if it's because I'm running realtick on this relatively ancient platform (although my new system just...

Safe stops = stops that are meant to be hit.

What's wrong with just trading globex contracts through IB? The spreads are too tight? No late saturday quotes for HUF/INR the deal-breaker for you? Or you're just too accustomed to having daily interest-differential credits soothe you during those deep drawdowns while the rest of the street...

I agree the difference is operationally subtle: obviously, every time I put on a trade I am expecting there is a greater likelihood for prices to go my way than not; obviously, I am not always correct and would never expect things to work out that way. I try to force myself to be open to all...

The freedom and loneliness go hand in hand. I think it can be said that generally, an individual trader could not continue long in this profession if he was not at least comfortable with a solitary work environment. I'm sure some of us enjoy it outright and consider solitude one of the major...

How likely will the 24" drop in price after the new year? Due to a Dell delivery mix-up, I think I have the option of waiting a bit before re-ordering my system.

How common are the 10% off coupons for XPS systems? I just ordered one using a coupon but they messed up the delivery. Will these still be around after the holidays?

You're not serious??? :confused: For some reason people can suggest the nuttiest things and somehow get away with it in FX. If your stock broker suggested you go long IBM and short it at the same time, and just close the side that's losing money, tell me you'd happily pay him the extra...

Good job Ivan! :)