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- captaincobra commented Feb 19, 2021
Sounds like a contradiction..
- captaincobra replied Feb 17, 2021
Nala66: You are right. I am not considering diversification, hedging, stops, pyramiding, etc.. When brokers in Canada were limited to 50x, I did some shopping around, and found out more on this subject. But considering 90% of participants that get ...
- captaincobra replied Feb 17, 2021
Why is 100x a bad idea? It's all in the numbers. Brokers know that if you: 1. Take on 50x up to 100x leverage. 2. Go to max exposure on one or two positions. (most of us do this, and use up all the available margin, almost right away) Then all that ...
- captaincobra replied Feb 16, 2021
Restricting leverage is good. Going 100x is basically is a one way ticket to capital destruction.. and the regulators and brokers know it.. Also, the only reason they are clamping down, is that soooo many retail traders have blown up, and cried to ...
- captaincobra replied Jan 5, 2021
Who hasn’t gotten into trades too soon before the market has generated a signal. Who hasn’t entered a trade too late, or has convinced themselves not to take a loss only to end up with a bigger loss; or gotten out of trades too soon; or found ...
- captaincobra replied Nov 22, 2020
Also Bitcoin really smells like a bubble mania for the modern era. Checkout this guys stuff for a great historical view on these booms and busts. url The articles and Sunday Reads sections are gold.
- captaincobra replied Nov 20, 2020
Yes! BTC highlights a lot theory out there about markets. Some things from my notes: It is a study in volatility. For a "currency" it moved more in the last month, than RUB and BRL has YTD. (And everything else out there) The nature of BTC is ...
- captaincobra replied Nov 12, 2020
Both Fooled by Randomness and Evidence-Based Technical Analysis make a strong case against focusing too much on charts and technical analysis alone! Even more though, is when you compare to Robers Shiller's stuff and Reminiscences of a Stock ...
- captaincobra commented Oct 17, 2020
So then Bitcoin is becoming a threat to the tax-evasion industry? Taking food of the tables of offshore entities in Bermuda, Nevis, Bermuda and Switzerland
- captaincobra replied Oct 5, 2020
Yes. Paypal is a "buyers beware" situation. Despite the fee's crappy service, and all the alternatives, they have cornered the market successfully. Lock-in has been achieved. And like all cornered markets online, all that is left for them to do is ...
- captaincobra commented Sep 23, 2020
So far it sure seems that way.... The only trickle down occurring from the corporate welfare portion is when they piss on the poors..
- captaincobra commented Sep 19, 2020
Also worth looking at this site. This subject is covered in detail on url
- captaincobra replied Sep 4, 2020
Awesome! Looks promising.. I would like to recommend this series on statistics 101. Has some great illustrative videos. Especially if you are new to learning about distributions, standard deviations, probabilities etc.. url
- captaincobra commented Aug 7, 2020
I guess Canada will have to water down the beer they export ever more now...
- captaincobra commented Aug 6, 2020
I guess the inflation expectations isn't acting as a high impact event under current conditions..
- captaincobra commented Jul 29, 2020
Once we have a COVID-19 vaccine, what happens to the Dollar? It will fall vs Emerging markets, where sizable overvaluation exists. It will fall little vs the G10, where it is at the same level it's been since its rise in 2014
- captaincobra commented Jul 29, 2020
Markets don't seem to care too much....
- captaincobra commented May 29, 2020
Ross is probably right about that. But isn't it somewhat true that when America moves on something, various members of G20 seems to follow?
- captaincobra commented May 19, 2020
This is how they will pay for it broadly speaking: url
- captaincobra commented May 19, 2020
Rare to see the housing starts leading ahead of permits! But I guess that's what happens when you have a sudden stop situation...