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Thinking in terms of probabilities in trading is some sort of new age retail mind set. IMHO - the only things that seems to hold true over time is: * Markets moves follow a non-normal distribution curve highlighted by large tails, narrow mid-ranges and a high peak., this has been proven in...

Pros may use rather simple entry setups but will have much more sophisticated $ mgmt strategies & great discipline. Pros anticipate as opposed to react, they typically have a much wider holding time frame, they trade a much broader range of instruments (domestic & foreign), and have more of a...

Aloha there windsurfer - that should have been my name - living on Maui & windsurfing year round for many years now. Keep on shredding! Windsurfers rule! Also started trading in the same time frame as you.

Futures lead stock indexes only outside of the regular market session simply because they are traded 23 hours a day.

There will never be a shortage of naive people looking for the pie in the sky, from the wrong people.

Or you could simply just buy the darlings - FANG. https://www.thestreet.com/story/14320244/1/fang-stocks-index.html

That is another stark difference from swing traders holding overnight - we want to participate in as many instruments as possible, whereas most day traders seem to have the opposite approach, usually trading only one or a few at most.

What are the arguments against index investing? Nothing wrong with investing in stock indexes as long as you don't put all your $ in at one time, better to carefully layer in over time or via averaging in each pay period through a work plan. You may want to learn how to trade around a core...

How do we trade oil - like this.

This site does comparisons on all hardware upgrades. Try it out, its really cool. http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=781&gid2=326&compare=intel-hd-graphics-4000-desktop-vs-geforce-210-1gb

Since why we are on the topic - swing trading by official definition and how nearly everyone identifies what defines a swing traders involves holding overnight. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swingtrading.asp To older traders calling a day trade trend trading strikes us as odd...

Trend traders numbers as a whole have large draw downs - as you can see below, the higher the the ROR the higher the draw downs. Agriculture traders have the highest ROR & draw downs. Disclaimer - I am not a trend trader. Trend traders index Stock traders index Discretionary traders index...

Spot on seminar - great info. What he says is absolutely true. Never was a fan of this guy, but he gets my respect for his brutal honesty. No sugar coated sweet talk here. Newbies should take notes while watching this. Wish I had seen this about 20 years ago - would have saved me a small...

Great points - Once I had a profit target and an exit entered with a bracket order trading got a lot easier. My trading took of and stayed that way when risk mgmt became my priority. Simply put it is rigging my trading to remove as much dumb from it as possible by following a set of rules...

The stock which you intend to keep your entire life. That would be the one stock that has my initials. (hehe)

Still happy with my $29 LG Volt, purchased new from Sprint prepaid, which has the same components as the I-Phone5, and has a much lager battery.

back filling meaning price retraces a prior move in the opposite direction. another term to describe sideways/choppy price movement. pullback - in TA it means price returns to (or close to), the price from where a downward breakout occurred. Non TA traders often use the term 'pullback' to...

You could either build your own scaling program without to much difficulty with other brokers that provide automated trading - or use a custom prebuilt multi bracket order which is offered by a number of popular platforms.