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speaking of bid-ask spread last night during the Euro session the NQ spread was often 5-9 ticks, and that was on an orderly march up lasting hours. The Nikkie spread was unusually tight often at 1 tick. Never seen that before. Typically tighter than usual bid-ask spreads imply that big...

From 1952 to present - a crossing in Q1 of the December low has lead to an average 10.6% decline on average from the point where the Dec low is crossed. There are only2 times this did not happen. Looks like the rodeo is back in town. We are now below the Dec low. S&P500 Monthly bars.

Funny - When I saw that I thought "these are kind of headlines you say at market tops".

you buy the dip, I will get the chips & beer.

How do you grown account to $200k? From disciplined savings over the years first, than you grow it from trading/investing along with continued savings if your working. From the brokers I am using, $200k of capital is currently yielding me about 180 basis points ($1,800 per year). Now keep in...

wrong - it is statistics based on 67 years of hard facts. If you call facts voodoo than your probably related to Trump.

He must not get the traders Almanac - otherwise he would know that since 1950 95% of the years when January was up the year ended up significantly higher.

CL - average daily price change over $20 days(ATR 20) is $1,200. It will cost you approx $12.50 to get into the trade ($10 tick, commission, exchange fee) EUR/USD - to match the price range of CL you will need a Fx position size of 120,000 which is a $12 PIP. Oanda average spread EUR/USD is...

How much one can earn daily in intraday trading? That would depend on how much capital a trader has, how good and/or how lucky they are at the moment, their risk tolerance and of course the market conditions. The better question is how can a trader have a sustainable and increasing income rest...

Indicators work just fine. They are doing the mathematical function they were designed to do. Now just because someone tries to use the indicators as buy or sell signals and those trades don't work does not mean the indicator failed.

You should not think that long-term trend-following trading is for pocket money. Well your singing to the choir - I am a swing trader myself holding multiple futures, stock & forex positions up to months at a time. I was implying that because this newbie is not trying to pay their bills from...

30 minutes a day is fine for swing, trend, or portfolio trading since your not intending to pay your bills from it. It would be beneficial if you could put in about 2 hours on the weekend. The main thing is being consistent & have a long term outlook. You may want to check out 'Chat with...

The exchanges also swore they had this under control years ago - sure, every once in a while they fine some operator some ridiculously small fine. If you or I even for an hour did the level of spoofing & layering these big operators are doing routinely all day long we would be raided by the...

Notice how they always go after the spoofers overseas - looks like they are trying to protect their bigger home grown spoofers.

Fracking destroys the ecosystem & makes the drinking water flammable/toxic. If someone was fracking in you area you would hate it.

It may not be a good idea to get trading advice/ideas from someone that has only has an account funded with only £100.

Looks like a lot of this is due to fracking for oil in regions they are not exactly boom towns to begin with. Frackers are going to make a lot more than what the median wages in these areas, most of them are way are out in the boonies. Take North Dakota, east Texas, or Alaska . The 10 highest...

SIM trading is cool as long as you play this sound track when in SIM mode.

If you click directly on the symbol they will sometimes vanish. The trick is to condition yourself to click anywhere else on the line with the symbol - that way they never vanish. For example I always click on the 'last' price since it the my first field to the right of the symbol.

The big N225 futures (OSE) has plenty of liquidity. The tick is about $99