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Hello fellow traders I'm a Sydney based stock broker. I trade ASX stocks and options for my clients. I also trade USA & overseas markets via CFDs. Are there any Hawaii based traders who would like to meet up for drinks? I'm going to claim part of my trip as a business expense so I wanted...

Almost woke up the house when I read that - fknLoL ET still provides the occasional gold nugget. Very entertaining thread Cheers P

I totally agree, options allow you to profit in different ways than just by trading the underlying, but if you can't trade in the first place then options may just be giving you a false sense of security while you continue to pick up pennies in front of a steamroller

Let me guess...... You did a magic of covered calls course or the incredible iron condor webinar and lost money in the current market?

There it is the Holy Grail in plain sight - who said the quality of posts in ET has fallen over the years

In my own experiences with FX trading I've found they are some of the best markets to trade using TA/charts as they trend well. Dont bother trying to understand the fundamentals behind the moves, just find some good set ups that minimise the risk following the trend and enjoy the ride

Here's the clip I was referring to http://www.babelgum.com/clips/5003510

In the movie floored one of the ex floor guys said the same thing. I'm paraphrasing but he said that most people didn't get this game - when your right bet MORE

I think it all comes down to battles and wars. The bigger war is the big boys playing their HFT game. The retailer with their one lots can win but they have to choose their battles carefully

LoL - Reminds me of a client I had who used astrology to trade the SPI. She cleaned up for a while then something went wrong with some moons on venus or jupiter and she gave it all back I also thought of a good business idea selling the trading concept of "The rare and elusive 6th wave...

Interesting belief you have about chartists there surf I find debates about trading are just like debates on religion. Swap terms like insider, scalper, chartist etc with christian, muslim, jewish etc and it makes for some entertaining reading in some of the threads here

So surf and houl - do you believe that one cant make money trading using tech analysis or charting? (Unless your selling the snake oil :) )

Let me just say that the reason I posted this question here on ET is that I think people's replies will give us some insight on that posters trading experiences Here's mine From my experience in trading the stock and options market in Australia, I think equities are an imperfect...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information Perfect information describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games (all combinations of legal moves) as would be available at the end of the game. In Game theory a game is...

So I'm going to europe for the first time in July/August 2011 - would love to meet any traders there. I'm not looking to crash on anyone's couch I'll be arranging my own hotels, but would love to just meet up, have some dinner and drinks I think it'll be great to talk about trading with...

yep - just trying to get some discussion going in both forums - i kinda stuffed up and didnt place a correct title in the other board

Thought I'd modify my thread so I can have a chat with some intelligent people here at ET - I love the options section here at ET I found this article on CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/42070561 Bryan Taylor, 36, could not shake the feeling that something funny was going on. Three of...

Why has this thread been moved to chit chat???? I think this thread is discussing some of the more important aspects of trading I probably should've added something about calling an ABSOLUTE top in the dow or another BLACK SWAN to keep it in trading - LOL so here are my answers from my...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42070561 Bryan Taylor, 36, could not shake the feeling that something funny was going on. Three of his most frequent opponents on an online poker site were acting oddly, playing in ways that were so similar it was suspicious. Mr. Taylor, who started playing poker...

I wish I could split the vote between after a couple of losers & bias