precisely why my comment to strat was made. i trade a very small alternative investment fund. specializing in gold, but i run all sorts of strategies on a test platform. nothing and i mean nothing returns like PASR

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

I have been on the thread for years, I work for a forex brokerage and my job includes analyzing and sifting through traders who are applying to trade our funds. I have been through both threads a few times So you will understand that I see ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

Lose focus because there is always some shiny new strategy being touted at work that is fine for a month then blows up. but on we plough

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

I am probably guilty of this, not looking at other threads but at losing focus

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

If this interests you have a look at the work of Nassim Taleb, especially his book Fooled by Randomness.

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

we have found a few talented individuals, 2 in fact from metals mine, and we have funded 3 traders with about $40 000 each. and they are plodding along nicely.

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Professional retail trader is a bit misleading. We did not recruit professional ( as in trading for an IB or hedge fund) for two reasons. Firstly because we are a STP broker we wanted to to show clients and potential clients that not all brokers are ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Take caution in your tone ignorant fool, when you have a point worthy of a response. we have custodial banking licences in UK, Australia and naturally South Africa,

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

We recruit exclusively out of the retail sector

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Hi Surf. You arnt wrong. but the amount of self delusion with traders is astounding. truly skillfull guys manage their own or their clients money. Guys responding to faceebook adds generally arnt going to be moving markets with the sheer volume of ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Hi Sunny Coast, we look at a minimum of three months. Which gives us clues to your potential. If you can consistently extract Alpha and can demonstrate you have a comprehension of risk management then we will have a chat. if you can net 20% per ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

I can attest to the almost non existence of profitable retail traders. I work for a broker and we have expanded into a regulated entity, dealing with fund management. i Have been trying to recruit traders who can demonstrate a consistent 2 or 3 per ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Big Thank you to all the gold bears for providing us generous amounts of liquidity.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Please do yourself the service of starting with the old thread, read, see, understand. your bottom line will thank you.

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

I see, makes sense now. Pretty good Idea

An idea for building wealth...using only gold

so basically a delta hedge that gets rebalanced?

An idea for building wealth...using only gold

50% of high water mark , net transaction fees.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Not exactly the boss. and there is never a point where you make enough, if you enjoy what you do. I ( and many other I have no doubt) am proof that retail traders can make consistent profits on retail platforms

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Hi All Ive been watching this thread for a while and enjoy the Ideas ventilated. I work for a broker in South Africa and trade small investment funds. I only trade gold. Although we are in a rip roaring uptrend and more than 68% of our annual profit ...

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