can Blinds trade ?
- Thread starter WD40
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Fundamentals and historical prices.
Forget daytrading. Swing and longer term.
You dont need to be able to see to trade. Reading braille or a helpful partner to decipher a balance sheet is more than enough. Use a retail brokerage with phone support.
I bet your friend makes millions in fact.
Great thread. Please keep it alive if he decides to make a go at it!
Forget daytrading. Swing and longer term.
You dont need to be able to see to trade. Reading braille or a helpful partner to decipher a balance sheet is more than enough. Use a retail brokerage with phone support.
I bet your friend makes millions in fact.
Great thread. Please keep it alive if he decides to make a go at it!
thanks for your thoughts.
Honestly I agree that he should forget about daytrading. Swing trade or long term investment is safer for him. But being a smart man he is, and he is already a successful long term investor in his own right, I can't really stop him from taking on this challenge. He is a cautious man by nature: he is blind. I don't think he will do something stupid. i.e. he is not likely to blow out his account by trading recklessly. It is more a matter of delivering the market data to him, and facilitating a way for him to perform useful analysis, so that he can make timely trading decisions.
Sound is a great idea. As a first step, I am thinking of rigging up Tradestation for him.
I will write a sound routine that annouces the closing price every 5 mins.
During the 5 minutes interval, if the price trades above the previous bar's high, it will give a high pitch beep. If the price trades below the previous bar's low, it will give a low pitch beep.
He can then listen to the market as it unfolds, and plots a graph in his mind.
I will run the idea with him tonight.
Honestly I agree that he should forget about daytrading. Swing trade or long term investment is safer for him. But being a smart man he is, and he is already a successful long term investor in his own right, I can't really stop him from taking on this challenge. He is a cautious man by nature: he is blind. I don't think he will do something stupid. i.e. he is not likely to blow out his account by trading recklessly. It is more a matter of delivering the market data to him, and facilitating a way for him to perform useful analysis, so that he can make timely trading decisions.
Sound is a great idea. As a first step, I am thinking of rigging up Tradestation for him.
I will write a sound routine that annouces the closing price every 5 mins.
During the 5 minutes interval, if the price trades above the previous bar's high, it will give a high pitch beep. If the price trades below the previous bar's low, it will give a low pitch beep.
He can then listen to the market as it unfolds, and plots a graph in his mind.
I will run the idea with him tonight.
He can use Talking Stocks
I dont know about futures but it can announce SPY QQQQ evey minute
http://www.4dev.com/ts/
Hotkey master
For time alerts (every 5 mins), order entry - linked to a wave file etc ( Have a hotkey for cancel all and close all
)
http://www.hotkeymaster.com/
Nostromo⢠SpeedPad n52
I use this with hotkeymaster for better control. Easy to position fingers.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=157024
Just some tools hope it helps
I dont know about futures but it can announce SPY QQQQ evey minute
http://www.4dev.com/ts/
Hotkey master
For time alerts (every 5 mins), order entry - linked to a wave file etc ( Have a hotkey for cancel all and close all
)http://www.hotkeymaster.com/
Nostromo⢠SpeedPad n52
I use this with hotkeymaster for better control. Easy to position fingers.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=157024
Just some tools hope it helps
was this person blind from birth? if not how did it happen.