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Why not also do this with vehicle purchases as well? Imagine a world without car sales people staking shoppers.

What are the most important things for Technical Analysis? As a long time classic TA fanatic it is always the risk & trade mgm that is most important. Using a rules based system & knowing/following your trading plan inside & out keeps your capital intact so you can stay in the game...

In the old days, like mid 90's, you could open an account and trade the same day based on you verbal to the broker you were going to deposit $ in the days to come. Not anymore. At IB I could not even trade until about a month after my check had cleared. These days brokers are not going to take...

The PTT is not active every day in the market - there purpose is not to make a perma bull market. The PTT is at the disposal of the president for urgent times. If you had bought the market the moment presidents have advised the public that it is a good time to buy the market like in the Bush...

Do you guys place stop-limit orders to work after hours or pre-market? Yes - only on the most liquid futures or forex - no stocks, and only during the European session - I am in the U.S.. Makes sense since the futures & Forex market move around the clock. Sometimes I prefer to get an alert...

Another good country to trade tax free for those living inside the U.S. is called 'Roth IRA'. Pump it up when you are young - when you are older (59 1/2) & get good at trading you may able to have enough so you can leave the principal untouched and pull out some of the profits to live -...

In August 2016, Interactive Brokers communicated to their clients that they were going to limit leveraged forex trading to "eligible contract participants" only. Among other things, eligible contract participants must have a balance of over $10 million. I am able to trade Forex at IB and my...

GS is not going to walk the crowd into some easy trades. You can bet there is deception at work - they are probably net long on these stocks and trying to draw in the crowd to cause a short squeeze.

Is The End of The Bull Market Near? Which one? The cryptocurrency bubble looks like it is a full blown mania now - this will not end well for those piling in now.

Scalping? ... more like being scalped by the predatory big fish. Your'e about a decade late to the days when the best traders could buy on the bid and sell on the ask. But if you must scalp the only thing that proceeds price is volume - all indicators lag since they are derived from price.

Barclays #1 in everything - wonder who wrote that .. Barclays? Everybody knows GS is the king of the evil empires. https://www.hfalert.com/rankings/rankings.pl?Q=149

At IB accounts > 100K get paid interest (cash sweep) & don't pay inactivity fees. One of the benefits of having a large account at most brokers is getting in on the best IPO's & getting first class customer service - IB ranks real low in these areas.

So now its worth $50,000 ? For that to happen the S&P 500 would have to decline about 99%. Try reading 'Devil take the Hindmost'. The best book on crowd behavior in bubble mania's.

If you narrow your list down to only books written by traders with 20-30+ years of extraordinary returns it will simplify your choices. Maybe try starting with the original market wizards - find one or two traders you like and find material they authored.

Bubbles come and they go - the late stage participants driven by greed get drawn in near the tops - they parrot out the hype from the mob - picking a round number significantly higher than the current bubble price and insist that is must be worth that much based on nothing but their delusions -...

If you bought Bitcoin 7 years ago .... 'IF is the middle word in life' - Dennis Hopper, Apocalypse Now

Thanks for the info on Deribit but they look to risky for my taste. When you trade derivatives like this, your main risk is counterparty risk. Deribit, with things like this and the documentation used to describe their futures and options offerings, does not inspire trust in them as a...

There's Bitcoin CFDs that you can short. Thanks for the idea but I am in the U.S. and unable to trade in CFDs.

Not sure how anyone got those numbers? Bitcon from $100 - 2,600 is a 2,600% gain or a 26 bager - a nice gain but nothing compared to the sea of dot.com stocks that rocketed up from $2 to $100+ which is a 5,000% gain or a 50 bager. Hope there is a way to short bitcon before to long - it is...

Bitcon - mania's come & go. Even tulips had a little intrinsic value. Mining bitcon, sounds like some gam that comes with a box of kids cereal along with a secret decoder ring.