To delay the fall in share value at the company's expense of course. Share value has little importance to a company that is self-sustaining over the long-haul. Sell the shares as the company buys them, then the value drops, then buy them back near ...

USD/JPY Discussion

Yes, usually years beforehand towards the end of the last bear market. The last bubble was extremely large for bad reasons and I believe a lot of people learned a lot of lessons from it. The fallout is still very fresh in their memory. I don't ...

USD/JPY Discussion

A market that won't go up on bullish news isn't a bull market.

USD/JPY Discussion

I was already short USD/JPY. I got royally fucked with high leverage on GBP/JPY when the news hit(and I was pretty much capped out on margin for that matter with all the positions I built overnight long on JPY). Thank God for triangular arbitrage. ...

USD/JPY Discussion

That you're REALLY unaware of the game. But look at you... Already getting better at math! Nothing to accept. Still waiting for you to demonstrate with some probability that you're not going to blow up. The ball's in your court.

3% a day?

Any trader with even a modicum of market knowledge is aware that brokerage accounts in the US are capped by the NFA with a maximum limit of 50:1 for pretty good reasons. My margin level is also well above 150% but good job on that math. Let me know ...

3% a day?

As I said; show us more than a few coin flips from the last few days. Then I'll happily let you pretend that you aren't moments away from blowing up.

3% a day?

Well, then, I see you certainly are stupid. No wonder you can't survive. It's called "let me not bet the farm on this trade because if I am momentarily wrong I've lost my farm". Also, don't habibi the pigs so much.

3% a day?

You are correct; it is more important because profits and accuracy are derivatives of time. As I said, you have no stats because your sample size is a joke by any statistical measurement. Get back to us when you're showing more than a handful of ...

3% a day?

Your TE is a scammer's joke and you know it. You have no stats, you have a few lucky trades until you blow up the account and open a new one with whatever you've withdrawn in the meantime. Get back to us when you have a TE with over a thousand ...

3% a day?

Because most traders get sodomized even with low leverage. You still use too much of it at once for discretionary trading; reflexes are too slow and the moment liquidity gets pulled it'll knock you out in full. You're placing full lot trades on E/U ...

3% a day?

I'd love to but the damn market isn't going anywhere. This week is going to be a pain in the ass from here on out; I can already tell.

The struggles of a Forex trader

I don't think people have to prove that they've earned the right to endure trials and tribulations in order to be presented with them.

The struggles of a Forex trader

Not criticism. Consider it tough love. His post was clear about where he is, where he was, and where he went with it. He believes himself to be okay with where he is; there's nothing wrong with prodding him along until he knows exactly where that ...

The struggles of a Forex trader

It's a mistake I too make often enough. It's the world in which we still must live.

The struggles of a Forex trader

You aren't supposed to tell people directly that they're being dishonest with themselves. Even if you do in fact understand them better than they understand themselves it's a quick way to make the whole ego thing start throwing up all sorts of ...

The struggles of a Forex trader

Well played.

The struggles of a Forex trader

With a big enough account anyone can "Earn a living solely from trading"... They'd realize long before they lost the account what their limitations are. A man trading a '12 second chart' profitably has skill that's head and shoulders above what you ...

The struggles of a Forex trader

But it's risk that you need to monitor when the market isn't even going to be moving. Unless you're using such small leverage in your trades during active sessions that it doesn't even matter whether you're -investing- when the market's dead or not. ...

psychological biases affecting trading