It depends how large the order is and how much liquidity exists at the price point in question. Once you get into $250m+ orders, you can start moving prices around. At $1b+ you need to seriously think about how your going to open up a liquidity pool ...

Question about large orders

Wow, I stand corrected. If indeed that is what the trading psychology principles being advocated on the forum have degenerated into, then you are 100% correct. Psychology itself will do nothing for a trader without a profitable system to use it on. ...

Some lessons from the real world

Fair enough. It is probably inaproprate for me to evaluate you based on your post. You very well have been born with perfect psychology and a robot like detachment from your trading decisions, but most people weren't. What concerns me is that you ...

Some lessons from the real world

Once you get out of the little kids sandbox or retail forex, margin becomes a factor of collateral. You could in theory borrow that 5 trillion, but you would have to have ~7.5 trillion in assets to pledge as collateral to back up the loan. This is ...

Invest 10 billion dollar with 1:500 leverage, possible or not?

Making trading your sole source of income will put you in an early grave. I've done it, been successful at it, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone long term. I'd say learn the business, build capital, then diversify your income stream. Earning ...

list of traders for living

Excellent post, expect for: The fact that you can shrug off the implications of trading psychology so easily is indicative of a psychological issue that you have not addressed. That pride is going to blow up your account someday... assuming one of ...

Some lessons from the real world

Couldnt have said it better myself.

Stop losses being spiked

MWahahahahaha. Seriously, your problem is in putting your stops where you "should" put them. Put them in places they "shouldn't" be and they wont get hit half as often.

Stop losses being spiked

If your in the carry trade purely for the accrued interest your gonna get killed at some point because the risk adjusted returns on the interest are negative. The trick is in getting into a currency BEFORE the interest rates start rising. Then as ...

The New Carry Trade?

Does neither one trade or one month of data a trend make. Any idiot could have made money in January so to see a majority of traders still losing speaks volumes about their capabilities. The mistake your making is to assume that 100% of traders ...

95% losers - Fact or Fiction?

Health care, search engine optimization, asp.net, the craziness in greece. Not that anyone really cares about such things, but since you asked.

james16 Chart Thread

Why is it every time I pop in to say hi, this thread is in a different sub forum? Anyway, greetings to all.

james16 Chart Thread

Nice work, you potentially found an edge. Ofcourse you just told 75000 other traders about it, so you'll probably get killed on it next week. Good luck.

Is Somebody Exploiting The Sunday Market Open?

I don't know thats it's too early. The markets are forward looking and by the time your listed criteria are met, the trade will likely be well on it's way. Now may just be the perfect time to start building a long term position.

Let's talk carry trading...

Fair enough, let me use your examples... I would point you to the panics of 1873 (the long depression), 1884, 1890 (no name small depression), 1893 (no name severe depression), 1896 (no name small depression), and 1907 (which led to the creation of ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....

Fair Enough. I need to go play with my chick anyway. Actually there is nothing that prevents you from doing so. You just can't claim it as being a government issued currency (counterfeiting). There are currently a half dozen company/individual ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....

You and I 100% agree here. I'll grant you my example was a bit melodramatic, but your example didn't speak to the subject of deflation or the value of inflation. Ofcourse people would switch to something else, but were looking at why they would want ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....

You almost have it In reality the banks try NOT to borrow from the Fed because it is a sign of them having credit problems and the market will hammer their stock/bond issuances. They prefer to get their money from the money market. The "Fed Funds ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....

If your into laughing at the stupidity of conspiracy theorists, Jeckyl Island is good. As a serious documentary its hardly worth wiping your ass with. The long and short is that the Illuminati started the fed as a secret mechanism to give John ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....

Just so were clear, fractional reserve banking isn't some conscious choice between multiple options, its the ONLY option. Without it, due to a perpetually increasing world population, we would be in a permanent deflationary spiral. And deflation IS ...

Saving Capitalism from Capitalists....