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Don't think Nokia is an example of the .com bust, even though of course it got hit hard. Its decline was more due to a company structure that failed to acknowledge and challenge (or adopt) the iPhone and Android. They also made a very weird (desperate?) decision of going all in on Microsoft's...

Do note that the S&P 500 guides a large portion of the world's equity investment streams, so it's hardly comparable. The tail wags that dog.

+1 Can this sort of thing work? Absolutely. If it ends up working for you, is it because of it? Probably not, my guess would be that over a sufficiently long time span it isn't adding alpha (discriminatory ability to allow you to do better than random/market average). To the extent it is...

Yeah sorry, I could have been more clear.

See above explanation, first paragraph. It's an expression, the logical opposite of trying to take me out of the trade as soon as possible. I.e. the root fear of people using CFD providers is that they are somehow stopping=taking you out of trades by manipulating mid price or spread.

Basically meant that I haven't observed something to indicate that they would be manipulating spreads to e.g. trigger stops. That is just a discretionary anecdotal assessment though. Usually every thread on this contains a claim that CFD platforms try to screw over customers by stopping them...

Seasonality is a fickle beast.

I don't know TOS' capabilities but OP may well be better served by pegged to midpoint orders. Passive limit orders are a joke for many purposes.

May well have bred them. Given that there are cockroach farms in the vicinity with several billions of roaches, a thousand seems rather low though. If they wanted to make a point they should have dropped at least a million. :D

I'm trading with both. Oanda works better with small positions, on IG you really want to have min 10k per position due to (large) commission. On Oanda's financing charges: https://www.oanda.com/us-en/trading/financing-fees/ or (if you're not US bound and need to know about indices/commodities?)...

I believe his post was an in-forum joke. Anyway, your intentions are certainly clear enough.

I've basically always assumed paid 'rooms' are ran by someone without edge, scams, P&D, etc. Of course I am open to the idea that something with real value isn't free, but how would anyone discern that from the outside beyond studying the prospective value adder (e.g. on ET) for a long time to...

I watched a documentary on this recently. Some scientists now think that we are _actually_ less violent and more controlled (less impulsive/emotional) than several hundred years back. A key change is that violence and lack of self control started being punished by society, making self controlled...

Hypothetically you can have a 10000 trillion market cap or whatever because it is a valuation, but it doesn't mean that everyone will be able to exit at that price. Locked out of reading article due to adblocker, but MicroStrategy is almost entirely a BTC proxy at this point so they are...

https://quantocracy.com/

My tip for them would be increase wages, but what do I know?

Congratulations on putting two observations of yours into the same title and assuming them linked. Restaurants have taken serious financial damage, all about there being far too few clients due to various COVID-related reasons, not about workforce lacking. On the general shift in policy, one...

I would agree, but he's at the stage where he doesn't even model static bid-ask spreads.

Slippage on market orders can be massive in small stocks (several percent even), and that's why those "inefficiencies" appear to exist in a naïve simulation. Passive limit orders or more advanced orders like peg to midpoint orders will not fill reliably (in fact, you will be the target of...

Nonpro customers have their asses covered by ESMA (assuming compliant CFD provider) regarding negative account balances. Family offices presumably sign up as professionals, if nothing else because ESMA mandates leverage restrictions on nonprofessionals. There are different types of CFDs, the by...