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most retail traders LOSE money i think it is reasonable to distinguish them from people who don't. there are a heck of a lot of people/institutions that have been trading for decades and making a handy profit the whole time they could be reasonably distinguished as smart. i...

Hey "Capitaltalk"! stop spamming your stupid site. every post you make is a frigging spam for that site. get over it. you apparently have nothing to contribute except for spam

"Not true as every trade incurs comission and exchange fee costs. Unless you can exactly match the price of a one tick profit or the smallest increment with the entire cost of opening and closing the transaction a break even is not possible. I cannot think of a contract where this is so." it...

"Ameritrade, sharebuilder.com, etc. maybe good for a trader who trades over a longer term and is not interested in getting the best price on the market. " i would qualify the last part of the sentence to read "best price on the market at that moment" daytrading with AMTD would be retarded...

exactly, don i use my AMTD account for Buy and holds and swings and stuff heck, sometimes my limit order takes days or weeks to fill. i let the price come to me. works great, and with $3 for unlimited shares,it's great. i use my IB accounts for intraday futures trading (primarily)...

"I find that bar charts dont tell me what i need to know, so I use candles alot. " fwiw, candles and bars tell you the exact same thing, they just depict it differently they tell you OHLC for each period. the ONLY difference is how it is visually depicted. of course, the different...

if you "don't know about that", then that's great, but you are admitting complete ignorance. i'll say it one more time. AMTD cannot give you a fill at a price greater (for a long entry) than your limit price PER-I-OD whether or not they get paid for order flow, etc. i have an AMTD...

it's called a LIMIT ORDER no broker, to include AMTD can charge you more than the limit price entered

but what does overbought MEAN? RSI over 70 is also an indication of "overbought". great. does that mean it can't stay "overbought" for a given # more of minutes, days, weeks, months? of course it can. so, even if one agrees and says "yes, it's overbought" what exactly does that...

to answer the last... gold is , to some extent, an inflation play. it is a refuge to safety (a concrete asset vs. the dollar which is merely based on trust since the gold standard was evaporated). when most people are talking about the EUR, they are talking about the EUR as related to...

i can't imagine that anybody would consider an upper BB touch in and of itself to be a "sell signal" lol at any time, but that's another story. i trade index futures, and generally speaking, the doldrums is a time i tend to use for research. it is not that you cannot trade during these...

it means the narrowest range of the last 7 days, and todays range was inside yesterday's range

the housing market is also much more regional seattle, for example, is smoking

today was both an NR7 day, and an inside day

how do u define a "trade"? would a 1 year hold be a trade? i ask because all of my best 'trades" are longer term holds

bot HANS at 20. sold at 132 not really a trade, cause i held a longtime but it happened (mostly) in 1996 note the first # is split adjusted

"By intelligence, I did not mean IQ per say. While I agree that you need not be Einstein (and yes, perhaps he would not have been a good trader in your analysis), I really meant to drive home the point that, "being lazy" is no way to trade." absolutely. but what possible correlation do u see...

"all things being equal, I'll let the brighter guy on my desk over the "dimmer" guy" i'll take the better trader, since my point is all things are RARELY equal.

50 price or 50 SMA/EMA and in what, the spot or the current futures contract?

"I am a fader too, but in Ym you can fade a move and they will run stops and take you out," that is just not my experience with YM. i have no idea why my setups work so well on it (vs ES) (well, ihave some suspicions) but they do. again, one person's stop run is another's primo entry...