I've been playing chess since childhood and I love the game but I can't say for sure it's helped my trading. From what I've read, skilled Texas Hold'em players take naturally to mm rules and the psych aspects of trading.

Does being a Good Chess Player make you a better FX Trader

Corporate Bond Risk Jumps to Three-Week High on Economy Concern By Abigail Moses and Bryan Keogh Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of protecting corporate bonds from default rose on concern a five-month credit market rally is “unsustainable” as ...

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Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators Economists Behind Original Concept Question the System's Large-Scale Usefulness, and Recommend Emissions Taxes Instead By JON HILSENRATH In the 1960s, a University of Wisconsin graduate student named ...

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Harry Markopolos: CDS Fraud Will Make Madoff Look "Small-Time" Lawrence Delevingne Aug. 12, 2009, 2:01 PM image Memo to regulators: be forewarned about frauds in the credit-default swap market. They'll make Bernie Madoff's $65 billion fraud "look ...

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The Screwing of the Average Investor Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Robert Wenzel Probably one of the best ways for an average to small investor to participate in the ecommodities markets is through exchange traded funds. By using ETF's you can limit ...

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Thanks, Jay. Appreciate it.

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The United States HAS OFFICIALLY HIT THE TREASURY DEBT WALL Aug 7th, 2009 image

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Monumentally Tragic Disappointment on the Horizon Aug 4th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler Whenever the herd mentality lines up along a compass point leading to “permanent prosperity,” or a yellow brick road lined with green shoots, or something ...

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Recession is over, says economist According to Dennis Gartman, a number of indicators point to a recovery that is just getting started. By Scott Cendrowski, reporter August 6, 2009: 12:41 PM ET image Dennis Gartman: "It's over." NEW YORK (Fortune) ...

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Apparently so... Unclaimed dead stack up in Wayne County morgue Charlie LeDuff / The Detroit News Detroit -- Poor Grandpa. His corpse lies at the bottom of a pile of other bodies unclaimed at the Wayne County morgue. But Grandpa -- whose name has ...

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About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011 Wed Aug 5, 2009 5:12pm EDT By Al Yoon NEW YORK (Reuters) - The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent at the ...

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This is the AMAZING Strategy! No need for mm. Trading discipline/psychology is useless, screen time is redundant, and margin calls are a thing unknown. Pip rebates? Hah!! Pardon me while I choke and blow coffee all over my monitor. Read the first ...

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That old thing has been superseded by the new Prepainting Reverse Lagging indi. Aren't any of you guys receiving Merlin's AMAZING Newsletter? I got next months edition two weeks ago.

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I'm no fan of GB and I'd take the following with a big grain of salt but it's interesting nonetheless: video

Crash of 1929 vs. Today

Open a weekly chart going back to around mid May of 2003 and you'll see 135 is a level E/J just loves. That's where it's at now, trying with difficulty to break to the upside. Been bouncing around between 131.7 and 136 for about the past three weeks ...

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As many saying you can't apply magic.

Where is the science? Where are the statistics

Lot's o' tasty tasty nuggets in this thread. Thanks, David. I trust all is well down in Kiwiland. Hope the recent earthquake you had on SI didn't scramble your broadband connection. One of my sisters lives in Hawkes Bay NI and she says all is well ...

Important – Why systems are profitable (or not)

Jerry, can you give me any idea what sort of returns MAX traders can expect trading the Asian session? Not trying to pin you down, I know it's a tough question.

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