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volente, guys using 100 to 1 margin etc. at prop shops are a phenomenally tiny %age of people involved in the market get real they are barely even statistically significant

market cap is obviously more but that's a silly metric, to use an absolute basis a relevant measurement would be how much margin PER investor or as a percentage of assets obviously, when a nation has far more PEOPLE, and far more INVESTMENTs and far more market capitalization, they are...

i am not trading in gold, so much as investing in it of course, i started buying gold in 1998, so i have a longer timeframe. pared SOME out on strength, but still holding a nice core. frankly, im just scaling in on weakness *and* using it as a hedge by most metrics, it is cheap

based on the common definition of a "trending" market ... no, it wouldn't read what he wrote and what i wrote. like i said, *i* prefer markets rotating around value vs. "trending" markets. the dow/S&P only "trend" 4-6 days a month, on average. imo, learn to trade various market...

u can still be selectively short. heck i made $15 today on a DIA put, while i was scalping Crude, Corn, and the dow :) but everybody wants to be a hero and call the top. reminds me of that old joke about economists predicting 25 of of the last 5 recessions :)

dood. that's absurd. prior to the 1929 crash, it was COMMON for bucketshops to offer 10:1 margin i highly doubt that people are more leveraged (margined) now than they were then do you have facts to back up your assertion about margin?

the russell is heavily infested :) with oil stocks when oil tanks, generally speaking, the russell is weak feel free to track the correlations oil was down 2% today hth

exactly. why does he need facts when he has ideology to espouse? incredible i told you i was expecting intellectual dishonesty, but holding out hope that it wouldn't emerge i waited. it did. sad. that's one thing that i prefer about trading vs. politics. in politics, people...

but my other brokerage is ALWAYS much faster than IB is for ACH's with the same bank so, either IB is sitting on my money (which they may do for risk management as much as anything... or interest) or the other brokerage is crediting my account BEFORE the ACH goes thru. that's kind of...

i use ACH all the time. i only use wires for initially funding an account ACH is free wire is not i have noticed that IB ACH takes longer to clear than my other brokerage. i *suspect* they use that as a free way to get interest short term, since they are dealing with many millions...

some points i am not sure what you are planning on trading, and what timeframe, but you say you want to stay out of trendless markets (so called trendless) statisitcally speaking (varies with market development, but is generally true ) the stock indexes only "trend" 4-6 days a month...

there were far more than just australia. there were approximately 40. however, that was not the point. you claimed there was one i disproved your claim by naming 2. australia and the UK and you admitted such, even if u did it in a hedgy sort of way which is what you'd expect on a...

god, the idiocy continues "Wow up 8% to 10.75, now that is what I call manipulation, this indicator is useless just like most wall street created devices" loser trader meme 101 - "manipulation" what the VIX is, is a derived # that shows how much premium is being priced into SPX options...

if you are going to speak about crime rates and victimization, you need to acknowledge that florida is a "right to carry" state where you SHALL be issued a permit to carry, as long as you are not a convicted felon, etc. in California, it aint gonna happen unless you are best buddies with some...

fwiw, i found out the mini is not approved by the CFTC for US traders, so it is not a tradeable option if u live in the USA you can trade the singapore contract or the full size OSE contract, but not the OSE mini

i don't have to name all those nations. the claim was that NOBODY except for 1 supported us so, all i have to disprove the claim is to provide ONE other. that would make 2. which would make the 1 claim a lie, or just an ignorant error. here you go: Australia hth will the OP admit...

dood, get a clue this is 100% empirically verifiable as false "High when we initiated a unilateral war, against the approval of very nation on planet earth except 1" there were many nations that supported us besides the UK. get a frigging clue and this does not mean i support the...

the VIX is the volatility in SPX options that is what it is VIX futures are traded on the CBOE be advised, since there is no "cost of carry" and no fungibility, vix futures do not operate exactly like a classic futures contract. they do tend to trade at a premium and diverge towards...

"Arnie seems to have a point. If there is a nuke or some other major event, I bet the market will drop right through stops and not trigger them." i have no idea why you would bet this. do you have any evidence that in event X, that the market would go THROUGH stops without triggering them...

" That's one reason I never set a hard stop. I always use a mental stop. " lol there is a columbian proverb: "one learns best with blood" for people who set "mental stops" with futures, their day will come. love it.