Say hello to my little friend...Hey Froggie! — Ok, now that I have you by the Kahonies I give you a small fraction of proof. You can disregard it as fiction all you want. As I'm sure if you don't others likely will (oh the file is edited ...

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yeah that's the way I understood it... but then again I am the one agreeing with you.

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I don't need to read anything. I traded it live so I know it does work. You can say what you want meanwhile the market ranges 80-90% of the time. During this time the hedge can work for you, but you have to put everything you currently know into a ...

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Well it wouldn't stop there, you'd get hey do you have an EA we can have? How do you do this? How do you do that? What indy's are you using? What time frame? Hold my hand and make some money for me too... I'm your homie don't forget me K? LOL. Yeah ...

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When a myth becomes a Conspiracy — Well then the question would be are they actually traders or con-men posing as traders? So then we turn the myth into conspiracy. "All myths are conspiracies to rob you legally!"

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only if you don't know where price is going.

"Hedging" Revisited

Take your time it can be done, but it's inherrantly dangerous and is certainly not for the faint of heart. Usually the big trend is what gets you because you under estimate it usually, so you have to watch margin / leverage / equity like a hawk. You ...

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"Traders who spend time in a forum are not profitable."

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yeah ok I may have over-reacted and I guess it was the tone of the response. People are people no matter where you go and I see it all the time from all the other boards I frequent as well. Of which the majority of posts like that lead to nothing ...

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It really intrigues me why someone comes to a board and says " why listen to this expletive come here" What is your motive? you come here to read the BS but then post that somewhere else is somehow better? Give me a break. Newbies, question ...

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Sermon on the mount — Some do some won't because they are scared of poor little CFTC. Do your homework and you can find a good number that will. I am living proof I can guarantee you that much. Part of the loophole is that they don't advertise ...

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I think the big thing is that you need to find the style that works for you. This market is the biggest in the world and can swallow you in an instant. To give you an idea this market was estimated at around 1.9 Trillion a day in 2004 and is ...

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Yeah it's legal... the CFTC /NFA has been smoking too much Democrat Crack. Hell you don't even need two different brokers, just have your broker open two seperate accounts. Or better yet vote with your money and go off-shore and you can hedge in the ...

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I found your writeup a few pages back so this should get me started. In the meantime I sent you a PM. Based on a post of yours I read you said something to the effect that you couldn't PM? So I don't know if you will get it or not if that is the ...

Triangular Arbitrage

SEC Flash Crash — SEC begins to look into the Flash Crash on May 6. They obtain the computer of the supposed trader responsible for the series of events that ensued and began to question him. SEC: Sir, what were you doing precisely during the ...

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The love affair with Shirley — To shed more light on what I said about mass destruction to your account is you still have to have timing down. Because at some point you will need to close one side of the hedge. If the pair continues in the ...

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Liquidity can get quite thin when banks of a certain country are closed. Sometimes big money will enter the market to push a pair a certain direction. Sometimes just long enough to make it appear like a "stop hunt" but actually they do it to "pump ...

Question about Bank holidays

I can say that hedging is a good way to make up for inaccuracies in your system. However, it will only do this if employed properly. The cost of employing such is muted if the method is profitable. Because you are opening these trades to "off-set" ...

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Todays special ~ Humble pie — IMHO it's your ego that is getting in your way. The markets favor no one and they will humble the largest of egos. Humility is a big part of the key. Why do you need to feel like you own a business? If you have ...

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No one ever went broke taking profits. Only if the profits you took were large enough to cover those pesky losses.

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