I'd like to answer this with lyrics from Les Miserables' song "Red and Black". (With creative FX comments added)

is it a game or job?anyone makes his living by forex?

I say 0%. Because you can software trade, and your computer has no psychology.

How much of Forex trading is psychological?

Digestion — The problem is digestion.. Perhaps I have just a super acute nose, or that I am just better at smelling things; but I can generally identify food items and what they contain from smell alone. But I think, it's not because I have a ...

"A Tale of Two Blinks"

I'm going to jump in and say, most don't understand what is going on in the first place, and what theories will work.. and they throw indicators on, and so you add what you don't know onto what you don't know, and you are expecting profit from ...

How many of Technical Analysis based systems are junk?

Firefox just locks up, and IE installs a virus.. I'm logging in from a unix box, so nothing bad is happening.. But don't you just love Microsoft Security? "You are about to get torn a new one with any lubricant, allow or deny?"

Virus Alert!!

every system really needs to be able to stand on it's own. No system should be offsetting any other system. If your system needs an offset, you have a bad system. I love Van Tharp's book. On my highly recommended list. I teach a few chapters from it ...

my 'aha' moment

Hate to be the vinegar, but when you define what the "trend" is, please let me know.. because it seems so simple in concept, but it's not..

My "Holy S**t Moment"

OR.. you can plot the RSI and then plot the CCI and see that they are exactly the same..

Call me stupid - Indicator discovery

I'm still waiting to see the millionaires that are the result of laughing at me.. Oh wait.. there aren't any... ..and detailed analysis of how Mouteki works, and its fatal flaws? Oh wait, there aren't any.. ..and posted explanations by Tom Demark ...

Mouteki Filters

Ahh.. but if you don't know math, then it's just voodoo... Or some little guy inside your computer drawing stuff you don't understand.. It is mathematically POSSIBLE because if you cross a faster MA with a slower MA and subtract the difference; then ...

How important is a knowledge of maths?

1000 times return on investment in 3 years.

What is your annual ROI goal?

Yes, same source... why CCI, RSI, Stoch etc.. all match up..

How important is a knowledge of maths?

I actually recommend people not use indicators of which they don't understand the math behind it..

How important is a knowledge of maths?

Why learn math, when you can buy someone's system, which will make 3000+ pips a month, but they are willing to sell it to you for the low low price of $49.95 (but only if you act fast!!)

How important is a knowledge of maths?

Perhaps I'm the ignorant one, but how are you all doing MM without "math skillz"? It makes no sense to me; charts, graphs etc.. are MATH. How is it possible that knowing that wouldn't help ???? I actually find this question almost like a fighter ...

How important is a knowledge of maths?

I use the pascal's triangle, as that's internally optimized for almost all situations of scaling.. There be gold in them pascal hockey sticks!!

Mathematician's help needed...

Hold on there before you make that statement! My students are forex traders for their respective banks, and they move, with a push of a button, about $300M USD. That's not much in forex you say? Try it in the Asia opening (I'm in Taiwan) and watch ...

Sharing hurt your method?

You might not need to know quantum physics, but you need to know: 1) Algebra 2) Statistics 3) Calculus My group and I generate indicators that are equivalent to 2nd order derivatives so we can see a change in concavity. Optimization of Money ...

How important is a knowledge of maths?

80% of Trading = Money Management / Position Size 15% of Trading = Exits Exits and Exits 5% LUCK That's the bottom line, 'cause Twoblink said so...

"Exits are where the money is."

There is one thing that is disturbing me though; and it is the circumstances in which I have reached most of these conclusions. But for Witchazel and what he was working on in parallel to me, and what I happened to read at 3am, it would have been ...

Drunken Walk Method