What an absolute mess. Commiserations for those affected. For those that don't know, most brokers hedge their trades by bucketing their trades into A/B piles. The majority fall in to the B bucket, which indicates they're a very likely loser and so ...

The CHF tsunami - 15 January 2015

Just a funny coincidence that's all. I'll get back to my cave

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Hello FTI, what made you just post that?

Technical Analysis Fallacy

That's about as good a summary as you'll ever see. Whatever happened to the liberal arts eh?

Do you believe this market is random?

got 'em. everyone looks more cheerful in colour

Technical Analysis Fallacy

FTI, saw this and thought it might be up your street. Possibly literally up your street ... url Glad to see you're still soldiering on.

Technical Analysis Fallacy

When you all finally move to MT5, do let me know how much you enjoy trendlines that jump and change angle when you drag 'em. Nothing like keeping you on your toes...

MT4 New build 600 is released

Fair enough, and yes - people like James Rickards for eg are definitely worth listening to. And the whole shebang did nearly collapse a couple of years back. The perils of fiat is in direct proportion to the amount generated in excess of growth ...

Discussion on economic situation in the UK

It's not. I'm pointing out that the guy is suggesting that the world is teetering on the edge of total collapse, to which he thinks the answer is some of his silver and gold. It's like peddling hard hats in event of nuclear war.

Discussion on economic situation in the UK

I was hoping he'd have moved on to using groats, livestock and tins as a medium of exchange by now. If he's doing anything other than living in a commune on a ranch in Dakota I'd be sorely disappointed.

Discussion on economic situation in the UK

Jen sounds like you hate the place but to each their own. Most of that Moneyweek has used massaged data combined with hysterical commentary, leaps of faith. Eg to use non-inflation adjusted figures in relation to debt is the kind of dirty tricks a ...

Discussion on economic situation in the UK

Moneyweek's been flogging that same horse for over 5 years now. The end of the world is nigh, only we know the answer etc etc. Moneyweek's world is finished once the scared money stops buying their rag mags. Noone knows for sure what the housing ...

Discussion on economic situation in the UK

Exactly. And I have seen his returns and that'll really give you something to laugh about.

The one reason that trumps all other reasons why traders lose

What Mark Douglas knows about trading and trading psychology I could write on a postage stamp and still have room for a doodle.

The one reason that trumps all other reasons why traders lose

USA, good post, amazing I'd never come across it before. There's a decent PDF translation here for anyone wanting a read. It doesn't rhyme but probably closer to the original meaning: url As for ancient wisdom: thomas 70, nag hammadi scriptures: ...

Ancient Wisdom for Traders

Ahem... url video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Yesterday was pretty useless, I was distracted by my research and only had a losing long on EU for fairly minor damage... today having a full day off, back tomorrow.

Let's get to work

New week, new set of trades and hell after last week's shennanigans I'll need them. Thankfully though, I made some breakthrough over the weekend of such mind-numbingly obvious in your face all the time business it should speed me right along. But ...

Let's get to work

Yeah, retail pos has got its uses. There's a lot of assumptions written about it here on FF which are no help whatsoever, but if you're serious, you need to gather data, and turn it into some cold hard facts. Takes a while. Obviously simply running ...

Retail forex positioning

looks like its going to break gu below instead, so 1.5070 here we go...

Let's get to work