Thanks for sharing these, seriously. I read intentional stance last night and it was one of the best posts i have ever read on FF. It spoke directly to my trading style. I put up with all of FFs daily bullshit because every now and then I find ...

If you learn nothing else

No, he was just making a point that the market doesnt care if you do or not. Edit:gotcha

The 3 Elements of a Successful Trader

It was a documentary that followed nybot traders. The guy was a pit veteran and did well for himself. What he said was true. The market doesnt give a fuck what you do. You are going to get paid for being right regardless of how much of an asshole ...

The 3 Elements of a Successful Trader

Im not here to argue. I just dont see what this has to with anything. I remember in the movid the "The Pit" one trader describes trading as the a job where you can go home get drunk, beat your wife and kids. Then go to work the next day and be ...

The 3 Elements of a Successful Trader

Sometimes I feel like I come to ff just to see nubcake yell at people.

Why do most traders lose money in the market?

I recently posed this question to someone who prices derivatives for a bank. He said certain markets do require clearance to trade in but said forex is not one of them. Edit: re-read your question. I see you were asking about traders and large ...

Question about Bank/Fund Traders

Wish this Eurogroup meeting would wrap the fuck up already video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Just a suggestion. . . I'm not here to help but I've done a similar exercise in the past. Don't limit yourself to economic numbers. They can be important but a lot of the time they will till take the back seat to more important events. I would ...

Studying history to understand what will happen in the future

My performance from last week is perfect for this thread. . . Ugggghhhhh I'm still not over it. Maybe venting on a public forum will help lol. Had my game plan all worked out for the week to play Greece expectations with an upside bias. 3250 was my ...

Non Smexy Trades...

This is not true. Spike occurred the moment China hit the wires suggesting potential heavy support for the ESM/EFSF in the future. Angela Merkel had a play date in china today. The rally on the news was met with strong selling. It didn't help that ...

This Huge Candle

image Exit could have been better. My 3G went out on me so I missed the bottom.

Smexy Trades

Sup redlion Just curious here. The last time we talked, I remember you holding a different opinion on prediction. Why the change?

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Hey, I don't follow your thread or anything but don't worry about the sleep paralysis. I get it all the time. I can even force it upon myself if I feel like lucid dreaming. It's the stage of sleep right before your start dreaming or are coming out ...

14 Year Old Forex Trader's Lessons

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What kind of music you hear while you trade?

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What kind of music you hear while you trade?

If I remember correctly the total cost of the intervention was 60 billion USD. I heard some higher numbers but I believe that was the official number. Those first 150 pips were cheap as fuck relatively speaking. That intervention was extremely ...

Confused about stop hunting

The point is that price impact is dependent on how much liquidity is in the market. No one was going to short the first spike on the intervention so it was much cheaper to move price up and people had to cover. You've been ranting this entire thread ...

Confused about stop hunting

I have egads, here's something for you to chew on. The first 150 pips only cost the BOJ 6 billion dollars.(reported by dealers after the initial spike) The other 150 pips was the rest of the intervention funds.

Confused about stop hunting

Nubcake some things to take into consideration. Eurotrash explained it well earlier in the thread. Egads might have you believe other wise but these are actual facts and relevant to anyone wanting to come to a reasonable conclusion.

Confused about stop hunting

Egads I hope you decide to research liquidity and the price impact of orders one day. You'll realize how much of an asshat you sound like. You're not calling out a guru. People aren't giving you funny looks because they feel the need to defend DS. ...

Confused about stop hunting