I got one word for all the naysayers... dopamine. Either you realise the relationship between food and behaviour, or you're too busy mainlining pizza and coke to notice the difference between trundling along vs performing at your peak.

Diet and trading: Vegetarians better at trading?

Hi Two, I've a good idea of what you're doing / have done. I don't think you're the first btw, but that's a different story. In terms of pricing, my own personal barometer is that if something is priced like other similar professional finance texts ...

Optimized Risk vs Reward Equation

Fantastic illustration Pip. i've got a totally unproven theory that financial markets would all conform to standard devs if there was no leverage and no fractional reserve banking. It's adding fictitious capital to the systems that skews the tails. ...

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Good to see you're still here David. Feels like groundhog day from time to time eh?

Trading is not a Business

Thanks Sken and others. No we're definitely not there! For me, the whole area outside spot is red flagged for now. Weekly and monthly puts and calls approach reality but that's about it. Good game being a retail broker. Package up the risk you're ...

FX Options - I'm sure I am wrong, but don't know where exactly

Either ATM or in the wings. The foundations seem completely off to me. I had two main requirements - 1) to be able to sell for something in between 1d and 1w, but it's either 1d or 1w (and all european so no buying them back midweek). I know they're ...

FX Options - I'm sure I am wrong, but don't know where exactly

Don't pay much attention to barrier info, so probably not. My issue is that from time to to time, I want to sell short dated vols that are fairly, transparently priced and expire at NY cut, so either brokers are missing a trick, they think we don't ...

FX Options - I'm sure I am wrong, but don't know where exactly

I have vol surface envy Skenobi, I'm stuck in the relative dark ages with tables. Anyway you and Jack both hit on the same thing I've had a problem with. I looked at IG's deriv offering, but similarly their pricing is completely and utterly ...

FX Options - I'm sure I am wrong, but don't know where exactly

When you wrote this... All I could think of was this

Trading is not a Business

Delta, top man, that hits the spot.

Request: old historical charts

Thanks guys, that's the kind of thing, but I need the raw data (CSV) or in a chart format I can manipulate. Anyone got any ideas?

Request: old historical charts

The only perpetual aha moment I've had is that you keep on having aha moments throughout your trading career, and when those stop, so has your progress.

"AH HA" moment

You and me both. If things aren't growing, they're dying. Still maybe they can pretend the shrinking is actually growth in disguise? Must get on with trading

Technical Analysis Fallacy

I can... but bigger than that, all I can see is mass burying of heads in the sand. No governments can politically muster the strength to make the spending cuts, political cuts and to reign in tax avoiders that they all need to. So now everyone's in ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Understood

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Hi FTI, What's the difference when US and UK are busy printing money - surely QE is just another way of achieving the same although the method is more upfront? QE also exports problems by devaluing the currency at the expense of anyone holding QE ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Honestly? I wouldn't. What you're asking is an a/b/c in becoming a quant, and I'm guessing at this stage you don't even know if that's the route you want to take, or even need to take. And if your maths isn't your forte, what's the point in trying ...

Apologies if Repeated - volatility index for gold & recommended books?

Vix for gold, cboe do one: url Financial mathematics is a huge field, depends on what level you're at. And more importantly, what you're looking to get out of it. I could recommend a ton but they're pretty specific. Check out url as a starter. ...

Apologies if Repeated - volatility index for gold & recommended books?

You carry on with trading like anything and stop when the effort put in > the reward you get out. And although money seems like the most obvious reward, it never actually is.

At What Point Do You Give Up On Forex