I think we were a bit lucky to be honest. It could have gone either way at 1.1180. But you definitely need some luck in this game, which is why risk management is probably the most important part of trading. If you can get through the unlucky ...

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Me too. Oil and gas carriers though, not those ones with guns

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Yeah, absolutely. I agree that a mean-reversion system alone is not a good idea. Just imagine getting caught in a long strong bear market with a system that only takes longs back to mean! But combine it with some trend-following systems... and ...

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Didn't you use to work on the boats?

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Unfortunately can't participate in Q18 because I'm swicthing off now. But for what it's worth I'll answer B (neutral) for the pre-Q.

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Thank you for the very clear answers to my questions, Sisse. Much appreciated. Yes, "fade the middle" was the wrong term in this context (price coming from below), I just picked it up from your iterations chart without thinking sorry. I know that ...

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Hey C, Thanks very much for looking into this. I didn't get a whole lot further with my testing since we last chatted, and I'm back to work from tomorrow so will have to revisit this next week hopefully. I've been trying a variation of this setup ...

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Sisse, thank you for explaining it all in the last few posts. I can see that a lot of us here, me included, are/were confused about the nature of the flip zone. Maybe I haven't read enough posts on this thread in the past, but some of the points you ...

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I'll stay in, so (b) for me please.

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^^^ 10,000th post Sisse

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Oh... I'm sorry to hear that TF. You deserve better Party? Just tell me where and when. I'll bring some beer.

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Yeah thanks TF, I'm not trading much short-term at the moment, just enjoying the summer like you said. Not been following your trades much sorry, but I get the impression that you're recovering your drawdown nicely. Good job Thanks for ...

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Richard, I notice from your profile that you are a full time trader and scapler. This implies to me: large account size, high number of trades (generating large commission) and good risk management (less chance of margin calls). If so, you're the ...

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Did VXX reverse-split recently, TF? It was trading close to 10 when I last looked (about a month ago), now it's about 37! You can tell I've not been doing many vol spreads recently, can't you? Maybe short vol could be a sneaky winner, as you ...

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Carry trade, anyone? I've noticed that several institutions seem to think that's a good idea at the moment. Especially emerging market FX.

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Me too. Non-US resident and didn't get the email. I wonder if there are any US-residents here who also didn't get the email? Something similar to this happened in 2012 (sorry, can't find the link at the moment) - an email was sent to some traders ...

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Yes, this certainly is a worry mate! And thanks for the "tale of two knives" - very interesting! I think we have to ask ourselves two important questions about this impending CB meltdown: 1) When is it likely to start? Next week? Next month? Next ...

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Hi Fisher, Well, VSA is open to interpretation I guess, and it doesn't help that we're all using different volume proxies and different charts (4 hour bars starting at different times, for instance). I mostly rely on my own version of volume spread ...

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Good point, CableFx1. If you don't know what the flip is then it's pretty hard to find it! As far as I know, Sisse has never told us directly how he finds the flip zone during the last few months on this thread, but he has provided lots of hints and ...

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Is this just for US residents? I haven't received such an email, and I can't find anything about it on IB's website. If someone could provide a link with this announcement I'd be grateful, thanks.

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