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Highly doubt it. The "theoretical potential energy" of any mass of substance = the total energy released from breaking all chemical and sub-atomic bonds. Varies widely from one substance to another. (In the explosion of a nuclear warhead, all of that energy is released while only a small...

(1) IMV, "wide or deep" doesn't matter. What does... significant winning percentage where wins are bigger than losses. Also the more issues you try to track, the more trades you are likely to miss. IOW... "focus". (2) Suggest not trying to "elimate false positives". You can't identify them...

Just the nature of the markets. Do one thing for a while, do something else later. A good trader is always aware of how things are changing and adapts. (Difficult to do, which is why there are so few good traders over the long haul) Players sometimes make a lot of money "understanding"...

Only a "fraction" of trading time, yet you get it so well. :)

Disagree. I've traded a long time and have never traded spreads nor do I have an interest in doing so. (Don't like options, either... too much hassle for too little money on too many positions for a retail screen jockey like me.) I once had a PM conversation with an ET old timer who runs a...

By that standard, Obama deserves to be drawn and quartered!

"... President Trump said on Tuesday that he will deploy U.S. troops along the southern border to guard against illegal crossings into the country "until we can have a wall..." https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-03/trump-deploys-us-military-southern-border He should have done this the...

I've been thinking this corrective action has been a "Wave 4"... but which one? If correct, leaves room for some modest "rally back up", "Wave 5". Or possibly a much bigger move higher, possibly to Dow 50,000 in a couple of years. Too soon to tell which, if such is even the case. Consider...

You can either buy a "turnkey trading computer"... or put one together yourself and likely save >$1,000. Lots of us on ET can direct you how to do that. If you want this kind of help, you need to answer a few questions.... Will the computer be used for trading and/or other "lite"...

If such a trade is "done privately", how does the knowledge of it get into the marketplace... and for what purpose?

No rationale to that. Each play is "independent" of what has gone on before. Either the deck is (still) "in your favor" or "not". Your question relates to the notion.... "if in a coin flip, heads has come up the last 5 times.... what are the odds of it coming up a 6th consecutive time"...

So how does that work? Brokers representing each side make the trade out of public view? Didn't there used to be something like a "2,000 contract" position/trade limit? (I've never looked into such limits, as I can't trade that kind of size myself.) Wouldn't a trade of such size affect the...

"... Moments ago, a 65,000 sell order in the E-Mini, equivalent to a notional of roughly $8 billion, sent the S&P 500 tumbling, and breached the 200-day moving average..." https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-02/nasdaq-tumbles-red-2018 How does one make a trade for 65,000 contracts? The DOM...

Conundrum... To do that you need to understand and use "Price TA". But "TA doesn't work", right? (I mean Geez... everybody says so.)

The psycho of the stop.... "I'm risking ______ on a play. If the market goes against my play by (stop amount), I must conclude that my play "might be/or is" totally wrong. At the stop point, it's "wrong for a little". If the trader lets the loss get much below the stop point, he may end up...

(1) Use of stops is fundamentally crucial to your success (and even survival) as a trader, and (2) where to place them is an art.

CORRECTAMUNDO!! Not only is this statement fundamental, it must also be "brilliant"(?)... as few seem to get it.

For a "market crash" to occur, there needs to be a HUGE "changing of the mind". How do you predict when anyone/traders are going to "change their mind"? IOW... anyone who caught the '87, crash was as much lucky as anything else. (That said, one of the desk brokers in our office had bought a...

Which is why Leftist propaganda targets the youth... just as Nazi Goebbles advocated. Unfortunately, our high schools and colleges have become festering pools of Leftist propaganda and indoctrination....not to mention mainstream and social media.

LOL! Good one.