well that makes it easy glad to have you man. whats your trading style?

My trades by Dave

dave do you have a product to sell? like a signal service? if not, you are welcome to keep your trade diary right in this thread. if you do have a service, your posts will be considered spam though (unless we setup a separate section for this kind ...

My trades by Dave

LOL!!!

PPC - Thingamumbobbies

yes, import/export firms are hedgers. i understand your point that it is only 2.5% of the 1.5 trillion dollars. my counterpoint is that there is no way that speculators are doing more volume than the total world trade! so there has to be some ...

Where does the money come from?

for the money management part, check out Fred Gehm's Quantitative Trading and Money Management. the best ive read.

Best forex books

how about this one as an addition... 4. Stick to your rules

PPC - Thingamumbobbies

this is the greatest PPC of them all. an essential lesson to learn. i was reading remenicenses tonight and livingston goes into detail about the importance of sitting on the sidelines.

PPC - Thingamumbobbies

i know you and jim both practice the art of adjusting your position size relative to your confidence. im not saying that is wrong, but it will only work if your confidence level is a consistent predictor of the trade's probability. if your ...

PPC - Thingamumbobbies

i trade equity and futures currency options, they are the same stuff. as for forex options, it depends on where you are getting them. my advise is to never trade OTC options. its like playing at a casino where the odds are already fixed against you ...

Spreading with options/new releases

sure, rub salt in my wounds sweet graph!

Central Banks Watch

sure, rub salt in my wounds sweet graph!

Bonds

well that "feeling" i had must have been indigestion because we are flat after greenspan speech. the speech scared me a bit, as he started talking about letting bubbles take care of themselves. could that mean he is going to stop trying to solve the ...

Central Banks Watch

well that "feeling" i had must have been indigestion because we are flat after greenspan speech. the speech scared me a bit, as he started talking about letting bubbles take care of themselves. could that mean he is going to stop trying to solve the ...

Bonds

well, i see what you are saying, but i didnt really think this was a "rumor" kind of situation. it was a long term development that was fairly well forcasted by most of the market, and there was no signficant drop in bonds before it started going ...

Central Banks Watch

well, i see what you are saying, but i didnt really think this was a "rumor" kind of situation. it was a long term development that was fairly well forcasted by most of the market, and there was no signficant drop in bonds before it started going ...

Bonds

LOL! well put

I'm new Heeeeeelp

here is what tradestation's analysis of options looks like...

Spreading with options/new releases

i have many options strategies, but they are far to complicated to explain here unless you know options jargon. basically i buy butterflys and condors. there are graphs that show the probabilities etc. i use tradestation, which has an awesome ...

Spreading with options/new releases

fdisk, dont get frusterated man! its only 2 weeks you are looking at. trading is a marathon, not a sprint! also, you now have a system that you can be proud of (it made money in real time, and thats something to be proud of) and your friend just has ...

I don't get it, it is just not right

ahh the adx...my favorite indicator! im not an indicator guy, but after reading Welles Wilder's book and finding out the adx calculation, i fell in love with it. i hardly use it as a primary indicator. my primary indicator is always price or volume. ...

Merlin's ADX Education Primer ?