Thanks Ll1979, I always appreciate when you share these videos.

Nat Gas anyone?

Its a useful book no doubt and I've come to appreciate it more and more as time has gone by. I don't usually recommend the book though due to the author's personality. There are other books that cover the same subject and are more to the point.

Trading book(s) - please recommend if you can

Currently the thing I'm watching closest is the US-China trade deal. The tariff deadline is December 15th so there's a reasonable chance we get a deal this week, but I'm expecting a sizeable move in gold either way. The FOMC this week probably won't ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

I think you'd need a very high AUM to cover the costs of that.

Company Formation for the purpose of Trading (CFDs, spot etc)

That's a good suggestion. Having a solid understanding of statistics, probability, and risk management are very important to succeed at this. If you use a qualitative system, I think having some understanding of epistemology is very useful to avoid ...

Trading book(s) - please recommend if you can

Well, it looks like Santa Claus is hitting the bid again this year. lol I'm wondering if we may get some weakness going into the new year. This time last year we had a big correction and it has been nearly a year since the low. After a year US ...

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It seems like this should be pretty bullish for oil: image

WTI Crude Oil Trading

Great thread. I think one of the bigger challenges is staying motivated after you've already achieved some success. Once you've made $1m, most people just aren't as hungry for the next million. I think most of us are doing this largely for the money ...

A Little Something To Motivate You

Thanks, I'll have to take a look at breadth this weekend. Last I checked the advance/decline line still hadn't made a new high which is bearish.

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I think a miss would produce a bigger move than a beat. The current market narrative is that the US had an economic slowdown, but 2020 will be better. If there's a beat, then it reinforces that narrative. A miss though might make traders think a ...

High Impact Events Trading... Gold & Copper

Your process sounds exactly right to me. Testing across two different time periods is a smart approach.

Curve fitting vs optimization

My pleasure Excelx, glad I could help. I'm a big fan of integrating fundamentals into longer term systems and using them as a filter. There's a lot of value in that in my experience. If you want something purely technical I'd look into a momentum ...

Ideas for Data & applications of Machine Learning with Azure ML

Very interesting thread Excelx! You may have mentioned this already, but what time horizon are you looking at for trades? I think the data you use would depend on that. If you're going intraday I'd probably do a lot of intermarket analysis and maybe ...

Ideas for Data & applications of Machine Learning with Azure ML

Yep, that video is pure gold. This one is also very good: video

Trading book(s) - please recommend if you can

A few of my favorites, in no particular order: Market Wizards by Jack Schwager (and all the other books in the Market Wizard series) Winning on Wall St by Martin Zweig Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in ...

Trading book(s) - please recommend if you can

Well, it is a seasonally strong period of the year but the market was already up 25.3% going into December. If I have time tonight I'll try to calculate the average return for December for years that were already up >20% through November.

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That's a very interesting chart, what did you use to create it?

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Quotes and Videos for Traders

Great analysis tush1822! I really like how you tie fundamentals and technicals in together, excellent work.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread