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you shouldn't be looking at the mini-futures, but at the big ones (twice as big) on Globex. Euro-fx september has done over 200k allready today.

BTW, I bought back some options in LEH sep at IV 140 which I sold somewhere around 105 IV, still made money though

No, there is no such thing, even high implied vol can get higher, just look at LEH sep options if you don't think so.

globex, it's free with IB

don't try to think of this in simple terms, simple and options don't go together well. No you can't trade vix in itself. Yes, you could sort of replicate/trade vol with spy-options (to keep things small) but rolling things over could give you a hard time. That's why VIX-futures are so hard to...

I don't get it, all the above is obvious to me and so can't say this is a surprise in any way. If this is a surprise for you you must have been very naive. The comment of the broker isn't a surprise either but is pure objective, he probably doesn't know shit. What else did you expect ? All...

I have to see a first major blowup at an opportune time :D to answer the OP's question: I do hope so, I am going fulltime in a month and a half. I could be living allready of what I make now trading 4 hours in the evening (CET).

it will be hard to beat IB or oanda

The mean reverting part can be very misleading, it might take forever to mean reverse and in the long run we are all dead as you know.

trading volatility is NOT for option newbies. It might take you a long time to know what you should be doing and you better start to read a lot and know about as much about options as any market maker does. Read Natenberg and Baird, you might want to read Taleb too.

I feel your pain, I have been a broker too at one time in the past, when I could choose stocks there was at least some fun into it, but when a few years ago people only wanted to hire me as an investment advisor to sell mutual funds I really hated the job. I don't think high of the salesmen I...

maybe the original question should be: in which markets and on what timeframes does Elliot Wave work. imo, it isn't worth the trouble, most people who use it need alternate counts and backups for those ... that says enough ! forex is the most technical and liquid market I have ever seen, but if...

things can change: it used to be bad in the US too ....

economics degree ? No idea ... I would advise anyone against getting one and instead try to do something useful with their life. And you don't need one to trade either ...

ROFLMAO

start to trade CL-futures instead of this spreadbetting crap and you will automatically make more money + you can get the leverage without going prop.

Spanish, I had a friend who became a big trader, he became the biggest local in the pit in Amsterdam, he amased 25 million euro's in a few years, he thought of himself as a trading God. He now is cleaning windows as he lost all his money. You have been trading for two months, he had been trading...

hmmm, you better start to look better, there is noise in smaller timeframes, but there is the occasional diamond too. I use 1/2/3/5/15/30/30/240 min charts in forex. They all give me clues.

London session is the best for eur/usd, from 9 AM CET till 6:30 PM CET. Learn everything you can about technical analysis and then some, it's the most technical market you will ever find. Get yourself multiple charts and get yourself lots of screentime while being very concentrated on what's...

hmm, strange discussion that you have to have been poor to become a good trader imo, although I totally understand the reasoning behind it and even agree with it. I know quite some kids with (really) rich parents and one of the main drivers for them can be not to be just 'the son of ...' but...