It's impossible to comment. Can't you post a chart of one of these trades, and your thinking behind it?

Fibonacci lines - Please explain it

How the markets work or how trading works? I think we focus too much on what we can't control or ever fully understand instead of concentrating on what we can.

Why are most retail traders usually on the wrong side of the market?

There's a third possibility, maybe the wheel like the markets is being manipulated according to where bets are placed. There could be a perfectly rational explanation for why traders fade a move. Some people subscribe to the theory that when ...

Why are most retail traders usually on the wrong side of the market?

Thanks

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Come on Sim, keep up man, it's north, NORTH dammit!

Let's move the market!

Hot damn Pops, it worked! Look at that spike on the 1m chart, 4 pips!

Let's move the market!

Don't you think we should try it on demo first, just to make sure it works?

Let's move the market!

I ain't stoopid, I'm buying now to get ahead of the curve......

Let's move the market!

Ok, to make sure you're worthy to join our Market Moving Symposium we have a couple of questions for you... If everybody in China jumped up and down at exactly the same time would it knock the Earth out of orbit? If I'm travelling in my car at the ...

Let's move the market!

Before, during, and after it I imagine. I think what annoys people the most is they all get to keep their ill-gotten gains, they created a crisis in order to make money and they got to keep the spoils. I dunno, never mind the morality of it, should ...

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Ooops, lol. I blame the investors as much as the trader, some people buy into the whole HYIP thing and then act surprised when it all goes belly up! Any link to the whole story?

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

The people who could least afford it got screwed....again. There's something fundamentally wrong with that scenario but as the wealthy make the rules in order to get wealthier I doubt it will ever change. Joe Average is getting just a little pissed ...

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Yep, and that's probably why I'd never be any good at recruitment, I'm a sucker for warm and fuzzy over cold and calculated when it comes to people! But you know for all these Ivy League geniuses (genii??) we still ended up in a big mess, it makes ...

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

I hope you are, you can remember us little guys and come back with some 'inside info' Seriously though good luck, the sky's the limit, aim high!

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

lol Me, I'd give the underdog the job just for the hell of it! (Bribery would probably also play a part)

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Makes sense, I guess employers are spoilt for choice, why consider anyone but the best of the best..... edit: ha, as I was typing you were editing, we agree!

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Can't say I really understand the education system in the US but I think there are some exceptions of people who 'made it', how about Mack the Knife ex-CEO of Morgan Stanley? Son of immigrants, no silver spoon, he just worked his way up the ranks. ...

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders

Ha, mine too! After 4 years of struggling I felt I was so nearly there but just couldn't seem to put it all together and make any consistent money. The questionnaire at the beginning and end was a real surprise, I never believed one book could make ...

Why are most retail traders usually on the wrong side of the market?

Right, so pretty much what Leon said, they don't know how to trade. Common misconception, even with a good strategy the majority would probably still lose.

Why are most retail traders usually on the wrong side of the market?

Agreed, some investors can be a pain in the butt! The easiest way I've found is to have someone between trader and investor. Raising capital and managing clients is a profession in itself and can be very time consuming as well as distracting for the ...

Do Investment Bankers make a lot of money compared to traders