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In the words of Van K. Tharp, in the book Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom[1] “ Let's break down the term Trend Following into its components. The first part is "trend". Every trader needs a trend to make money. If you think about it, no matter what the technique, if there is not a trend...

surf, do you rollover contracts on termination? or do you buy them way back.

i hope the charts and pictures were easy enough for you.

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Trading is definitely spiritual. Trading the markets will give you a snapshot of what kind of person you are. Trading will let you identify those things and offers a chance to improve yourself as a person, and hopefully trading.

I've observed the opposite. With more liquidity outside of the specialist's hands, you can move larger blocks quicker. This benefits the large institutional traders who are not concerned about 2 pennies.

i have seen this trend already in past month with prop traders essentially lowering volume >50-75%. then you have to wonder how firms will take a >50% loss in revenue via commissions especially to those firms who don't take a cut in p&l.

If your asking listed daytraders who trade in/out, hybrid is a big negative because so many listed daytrading strategies were based on the specialist system. I see the loss of price improvement at market order to have effect on daytraders who average less than a nickel profit on total shares...

For starters, investigate the XOM / S&P500/ Dow Jones Industrials / Crude oil correlation.

Question is, how many traders from prop firms do you know that went to managing hedge funds? I know quite a few who returned 7 fig payouts off ($2-3MM) off $8-10MM bp and never got any offers.

Any reason why this guy always seems to get bearish on stocks that are about to rip? He called a sell on ICE last year, stock went up 120% from there. He seems to be a good indicator. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/greenberg/

you are totally right. also, alot of literature past decade suggest to buy at high places, and sell higher on momentum. i know more than 1 periodical that suggests people buy at highs as opposed to buying at lows. i found that sectors at multi year lows with almost no interest almost always...

GS are there in a big way already. My prediction is that the top 100 trader list will be inundated with asians soon.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission Dec. 4 proposed unanimously to repeal a short-sale price test--the outmoded Tick Test--adopted in 1938 to prevent downward manipulations of stock prices, or "bear raids," and to ban the use of price tests by NASD and other self-regulatory organizations...

the ten year yield is <4.5%.

annual global demand at 84.5 million barrels per day (mbd) which means over 31 billion barrels annually. This means consumption is now within 2 mbd of production. At any one time there are about 54 days of stock in the OECD system plus 37 days in emergency stockpiles. OPEC cannot significantly...

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