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This is very good. Most people who play poker or trade are not professional and their(our?) normal behaviour is to get reckless when things go wrong. I see it all the time playing poker- a guy starts losing a few hands and the next thing he is all in - and goes down. What the true...

Americans: so 'conventional'. My current flame is 25 years younger than me, she loves worldliness and success. Not easy to find in a 25 year old kid (she thinks). Find an older man mytwocents, expand your horizons.

These things happen, I know of some systems traders who expect large drawdowns. And most traders are overcome by emotion sometimes. Marty Schwartz , Pit Bull , was on the wrong side of the market and kept averaging down: "Audrey, I blew almost a million dollars in 4 hours" (p.107) He held...

Try Poker, I do the same thing regularly playing holdem but the losses are limited to 3 or 400 hundred dollars. A less expensive way of learning about emotions.

Def, could this event ever happen on TWS? Most times when I try to do something outside normal parameters I get a pop-up saying the order was disallowed for whatever reason.

What a great article! 4Xmade easy - from the same comapny that brought out wizetrade. AND did you know if you buy them as a bundled package you get a 25% discount. WOW.

Prince Phillip- a royal for the common man! Lil, you've got some good advice on this thread (notably, the difference between your and you're). Apart from Oanda there is www.xodds.com a spread betting firm that lets you play with stocks, currencies and indexes for as little as you like. When I...

Tiger, They said thay had a bad month, this was early last year. In the last few days he had some good trades and broke even for the month - so he said. But after I had lost money on most of their calls I gave up before the good day. I never could figure out why Moneytec let him promote his...

Interesting stuff, Tiger. thanks I lost a few $$ following TEAMforex tips, not too much. Fortunately I resisted their suggestion to manage my funds.

I was thinking of trustworthiness.

the sooner IB begins its forex operation the better. It will be a shakeup for the other brokers.

Saturday to wednesday was Golden Week in Japan, a major holiday that happens every year in May.

Yeah, that is an oldie and a goodie. Amazing how many people believe it. Here is what the CFTC actually say: http://www.cftc.gov/opa/enf98/opaforexa15.htm8. Be Sure You Get the Company's Performance Track Record Get as much information as possible about the firm's or individual's...

I think helping newbies out is pretty useful. Where else- other than on ET- can we get something other than marketing bs.

I have to agree . I didn't believe it but decided to open a small account with oanda last month to check and the spreads are excellent and consistent. I only put $2000 in so I can't be sure this holds if one is trading size though.

Osman are you successful as a daytrader? or do you have another income source?

I think it is psychological mainly. Like reversing a trade as soon as the market changes. If the evidence is there- then we should act. But I find it very hard to immediately let go of my bias. For example, I enter a long trade at $20, it goes up to $21 and starts to waver, so I start to...

I think it is different. If I click the wrong button it is no doubt the same human error as the broker made. However, it would be impossible for any broker to reimbuse me as I could say it happened every time a trade went against me. Never lose! In the brokers case they can prove, completely...

This is a new thread I started about forex volume on esignal. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=32137

Why do you expect the broker to take this loss when it is seems it is simply a clerical error on their part?