I know SH happens. You miss a whole move because of some extra pips to be saved. This has always mazed me. If you sacrifice those few pips and you turn out to be correct and the trade goes in your favor, you consider yourself smart enough to act ...

Trade & Trader Idea, Concept & Circumstances

I know that they believe just the opposite and that they always think that if they can just program the complete or near perfect trading system, nobody would be ever able to beat it. But to tell you something, the human mind is invincible. I never ...

Automated Trading

Hey man, I thought that I am the only one who is doing this...lol...Turned out to be a widely known technique then. To my surprise, I got filled before on one of those orders, couldn't figure out why the other party did so, although I think that ...

Automated Trading

. Although I never heard of the firm before, I am sure that trading in general is a big chess board game where you are competing against some of the best minds all over the world. They are a mixture of mathematicians, floor traders, day traders, ...

Automated Trading

Agreed, but sometimes emotions are useful in trading. They are not always bad, sometimes they save you a big loss or reap you a large profit. Despite the fact that this is not fully correct of professional, but I believe that emotions are essential ...

Automated Trading

USD/CAD - Trading The Correction — One of my favorite currency pairs is the USD/CAD. I like it because of many factors. The volatility, the different personality than other pairs and the unique price action. Volatility, just as I liked it in ...

Trade & Trader Idea, Concept & Circumstances

Thanks a lot...This is the main aim of the thread...To share single trade experiences with all surrounding circumstances, conflicts and development.. Thanks, Nader

Trade & Trader Idea, Concept & Circumstances

My greatest SoyBeans — I will start with myself and describe in details, as far as I can, one of my greatest trades. This was back in June 2006. At that time I started to follow the grain markets, that is corn, wheat and soybeans and I noticed ...

Trade & Trader Idea, Concept & Circumstances

As explained by philmcgrew, they are not the same thing. The call is out of the money while the put is in the money and here is a big difference although both transactions you are talking about (Selling the call or buying the put) puts you in the ...

Difference between selling a Call and buying a Put?

LOL...What if the market itself decided to get there, not the devil market makers...??? Thanks, Nader

Manage your Money

Same here as well. Thanks, Nader

Who here manages other people's money?

Excuse me, but what I actually believe is that the USD/JPY is not in a long term uptrend, unlike, GBP/JPY, EUR/JPY and AUD/JPY and other JPY crosses having high interest rates differential. I have attached 3 charts of the mentioned 3 pairs and the ...

End of Carry Trade

If you agree with me that gold and silver are considered currencies in a way or another, then the best value investing would be buying gold and silver on dips. Thanks, Nader

Value based investments

I highly second what Dial said. Being unable to achieve success in 1 market will lead to the same result in other markets. Yes markets differ slightly from each other, but the success factors are always the same, just as the success factors in ...

Where can I buy stocks?

You say that you used pivot points, EMA and MACD. Why are you asking for working indicators then, you already have some. If you have been using a technical indicator which consistently produced 100% false signals, please tell me what is it? Thanks, ...

save my soul

Technical Analysts differ from technical traders, of course I can understand this. I was referring to the fact that technical analysts are not future predictors. A technical analyst shouldn't be predicting that the market is going to go up or going ...

Technical analysts are very confused

Well, let me tell you something very important my friend. We are all walking in the dark in this business. Nobody has a clear cut light showing him the path. You have to get used to use your other senses. When walking in the dark, you usually use ...

Maybe it won't happen to me ?

Man, you are asking too much questions at a time... Yes you can trade US stocks from Canada. I have been trading US stocks while I live in Egypt for 6 years... There are many brokers where you can trade stocks through. Examples are: Scottrade, ...

Where can I buy stocks?

I also believe in the inverse relation between Gold and the USD. However, this relation is not valid all of the time. I haven't done a statistic research on that, but I believe that in 75% of the time, gold and the USD go against each other and the ...

Technical analysts are very confused