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Any exam prep material recommendations for the Series 3, Series 34, Series 63 and Series 65 exams (one for each)? Lets throw in the Series 7 to the bag, even though that's a different animal. I know of Kaplan and others. Not looking for just names. I would like to hear from people who took any...

As clarified, it was a parody in response to another thread. I trade managed accounts. Size reduced with increased volatility. No pyramiding. I will thus never achieve dreamlike returns. Which is fine. Though a highly levered 3k punt do or die could be fun to do and write about. Hey, maybe the...

Trading = Gambling. Try to disassociate gambling from its stigma. It does injustice towards professional gamblers. There is average gambling (for fun, addiction, stupidity, etc) and responsible gambling, with favourable odds and appropriate sizing.

Nice post. But it should not be a dreamers game; herein lies a fundamental problem. Most people who devote a lot of time to playing basketball are happy with improving and staying competitive ... no dreaming of replicating Curry (or Messi if talking football). The sports industry does not...

I saw this other thread titled "$10k to $100k in one year challenge " and found both the idea and the poster's attitude (condensed into the statement "please provide feedback and critique but if it is not encouraging it means you are a loser and take your feedback somewhere else) so incredibly...

For those who did not get it, this is a parody thread (seems like almost no one did). Though the idea of shorting VXX in the way laid out on the initial post is very good - it be would be extremely profitable until one day it would likely blow off.

A good intermarkets system would use fuzzy logic for scaling in and out to account for changing correlations, and have a lead-lag component to determine which leg to spread against. I Why SPX-DAX? I'd rather do SPX-QQQ than SPX-DAX, think higher odds of a fundamental disconnect between...

This is a great response. I do think trading ZB-UTY divergences is nonetheless a horrid idea. But I'm not and won't be your client, so who cares. Indeed selling systems and newsletters and anything makes a lot of sense, even for traders - it generates cash flows uncorrelated with trading...

Because traveling the world and/or selling newsletters is proof of trading success. Proof attached!

As soon as I crack a certain adobe program! Acrobat of course! I need to setup a Python script to automate the process ;) Otherwise you will have to just take me for my word, as if I were a guru. I bet I'll be one if I succeed. So if I fail I loss 3k, if I succeed I become a millionaire and...

Please provide feedback and critique !!! But if it is not encouraging it means you are a loser and you should then take your feedback somewhere else.

I have devised this advanced strategy by employing statistical analysis via R on S&P futures, 30 year treasury futures, VIX futures and VXX, and deployed it on a C++ trading platform, it consists on selling VXX when certain conditions are met. The execution shall be based on establishing a small...

You can try such wonderful trading strategy trading the wheat-bitcoin spread, very highly correlated, obviously for very fundamental reasons, yet please first figure out which one leads and why.

This is the lamest trading strategy ever. The correlation between 30yr treasuries and utility stocks is very variable (you could have started by talking about the statistical properties of such correlation throughout time using different time frames ... as a selling point, because you are...

Yes, and Oanda. Gain and Oanda. FXCM exited.

For example I'd still be able to trade the yen, as yen futures and usdjpy move tick by pip. Now the price format makes it un-tradeable, and would need to trade off the usdjpy chart nonetheless as insitutional money likes placing barrier options around the figure (e.g. 112.00). Been trying for...

Only with a broker not registered with SEC. IB is an SEC registered broker because it deals securities as well. There is only one non-SEC registered option for US traders: Gain Capital.

Yes, the restriction is part of Dodd-Frank. Were Dodd-Frank to be repelled in full (don't think will happen, would expect only the parts that matter to those lobbying to be repelled), then the restriction to trade FX would be no more.

I am looking for a web based economic data releases app that delivers a popup alert X minutes before a data release. Browsers nowadays have the capability of delivering popups. Major calendar websites such as dailyfx.com/calendar and tradingeconomics.com/calendar have no popup alert capability...

6J is USDJPY futures (that is, USDJPY spot plus forward points to the expiry date, or in other words USDJPY spot plus some short term interest rate that barely moves). As with everything, the price of a currency is determined by supply and demand, which are strongly impacted by interest rate...