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Why don't people just stay long on the S&P 500? Bear markets cause long periods were investors are under water - most get scared out near the lows. Traders seek to make profits when the market is going up or down. True 90% wipe out, however few people that set out to learn to surf, play a...

For futures volume is not as important - for equities it is extremely important - it is the only thing out there that leads price.

This kind of scams are going to start going ballistic. President Trump this week repealed the FCC’s online privacy rules, which would have required ISPs to get consumers’ approval before selling or sharing browser history with advertisers. The regulations, part of the Federal Communication...

Trump just signed a bill that repeals consumer's on-line privacy! This giving your ISP the rights to resell your search words and apps being used. Not surprising, since Trumps cabinet are all about empowering corporations to have a lot more power over people. The vast majority of citizens...

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I hope it hits a lot of new highs.

Surprised how many people on here are spooners. I moved to Maui from Oahu to windsurf and have been here since about 2001, except for one move to Carmel briefly. Living up country the area looks just like it did 20 years ago. Maui to crowded? - well maybe if you compare it to when it was...

The smart players are program scalpers To bad the performance data compiled of 5,000 CTA's does not support your claim unless you are talking about the real big players like Citadel or one of the larger prop firm/hedge funds. For retail scalpers approx 4% are able to eek out a living at it...

Does speed of market/momentum actually matter? Yes! Momo is very important thing to lean all you can about for both day and swing traders. Next to volume, momo is the most important tool used by seasoned traders that trade with TA.

Quants with an edge implies you were a first mover pre 2004, have a few hundred million invested in inrastructure and to shape policies with insiders at the exchanges, have a staff of PHDS from top universities like MIT, and a comparable staff of lawyers. Just because you do some programming on...

I would just add that prudent trade/risk mgmt is the one thing the trader has absolute control over and is the core focus of highly successful traders. I do not consider it to by my edge per say, more like the foundation to keep me in the game for the rest of my life.

This happens a lot were small businesses are seized by the IRS for simply making legal cash deposits into the bank. The war on drugs has the same result - people's property is taken before a court trial and it is very hard to get their $ back when the charges are later dropped. The U.S. is #1...

started on April 18th 2016 with $10k and was at $3,513,412.98 on October 11th 2016 We will believe you traded $3.5M down to $10k - that would be expected using 500:1 leverage. Let me guess, you will be revealing you Forex trading technique for a small fee? Now I see why everyone hates Forex.

You could consider trading around a core position - like going long or short on CL and then trading the counter moves that go against the core - this way you don't have all that drag on your upside. This is widely used strategy - Jim Cramer sites this as his favorite strategy when he was killing...

As a swing trader overnight gaps happen. In a data set of 100+ trades the sum of all gaps should result in a considerable net gain since most gaps should work out in your favor if your in sync with the current price trend. Trading large cap stocks like those on the OEX-100 minimize large gap...

You should look at the reviews. They had a category for institutional which IB came in first and TS second. Professional was the next level down. Besides TS has a lot of high end institutional platforms and services - like ultra low latency through FCM360, algo/API trading, Bloomberg data...

You may want to look at TradeStation. They came in first for professional trading platform and data feed in last months readers poll in the magazine 'Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities' Or better yet read all of the reviews yourself.

Swing trading is alive and well - working just like it did in 2001. My prep time for swing trading only takes about 2.5 hours on the weekend and approx 30-45 minutes each week day. I only go into the market near the close when an entry signal triggered. It takes time to get into an efficient...

99% of those buy and hold and investors are killing it, next are the swing traders holding from weeks to months, over and over. Aiming for ticks in a raging bull is like going to a buffet and eating crumbs from the carpet.

Or try reading the annual reviews of trading platforms in 'TA of Stocks & Commodities'. TS placed #1 in data feed, futures trading systems, & professional platforms. This was based on readers polls. I used TS in 2000 - as broadband speeds and computer performance has increased significantly so...