ah. you must be a couple hours ahead of us - here, London opens around 6pm, then NY around midnight/1am, depending on DST and crossovers. The way you guys have it is ideal - sleep in late, hit the gym, lunch, trade London and the LSE, NY and ...

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Wow. A house?! I need to move to somewhere that housing is priced in minilots, not full lots That isnt even a deposit on a house in Sydney. And no, you could go the classic route: image ...but dont blame me when you get openly mocked in public ...

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Most locations in Australia do have DST - unless you live in one of the backwards states, like Bundy It ended two weeks ago or thereabouts. I just add the different cities to my phone's 'world clock' dealie, and it updates itself for DST ...

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Inside of what? The Department of Labor? And no. It is just informed market participants positioning themselves for a market event. You have to keep in mind that NFP is just a release of a compiled statistic - in this case, employment figures. ...

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Definitely. Drinks taster for Tallisker, scuba instructor on Maui, bra fitter for Scarlett Johansson....

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image lol, always trade with a stop?

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It's definitely true, especially of late (hooray for choppy, ranging markets!). So you often end up with a situation as you said, which usually gives you a terrible risk to reward ratio and so kills your EV on the trade. I guess there are two ways ...

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The Gold Coast is entirely comprised of old people in white shoes and drunk 17yo kids The islands, on the other hand, are beautiful - just avoid the ones packed with tourists and they are an awesome time. I loved Hayman and Lord Howe. Too many ...

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Thanks Bemac, that's really cool. I always do these calcs by hand in my journal before each trade, just to decide whether the EV is good enough for me to trade, and its kind of a pain to be honest. People forget that currencies are pairs, and pairs ...

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lol, now you mention it that does sound pretty bad. Mine hovers around 1pip. I just pulled up the last chart I had saved from the thread and it had a 6 pip spread, so I added a couple for the time. Oanda tells me that it is about 2 pips, which ...

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While that sounds nice, all the happy thoughts and discipline in the world arent going to make you a cent unless you know how to trade. Trading in the Zone is pretty overrated imo. Not saying you are wrong, but thats alot of risk for very little ...

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Plenty of people do, hence the trend continuing. In doing so, you are implicitly assumuing that they arent going to do it again right away. Which isnt always the case, which makes it a speculative percentage play on the odds of a repeat. More ...

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I had way too much sake at lunch for macroeconomics, but... Not even that complex sometimes. Bundy summed it up here: The SNB cant stop the franc naturally appreciating - it is a strong, safe currency - and they need it that way (the banking ...

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Hey now, if Batman can have one...

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hehe, i dont know if a single digit can do him justice. maybe we need some kind of symbol.

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One isnt a prime number

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Especially when you have no background, no experience, a micro account and want to make 100% per month, plus probably an extra 10% for account growth and to cushion against variance. When someone says to me that they are almost broke, about to lose ...

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Default, I assume, since my last page is 4002... but I suspect my answer wouldnt change much anyways

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30 minutes per page? God no. My average is probably less than a minute per page. Which makes the thread about 66 hours, which is less than a month's work at a leisurely 2 hours(ish) a day. Sure, you might reread a lengthy Jaroo post five times. And ...

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As usual, Mike covered this pretty well, so I'll just add a couple of things while I wait for my coffee and breakfast. Most everyone here is not having their order placed in the 'real market'. Why? Because they are too damn small. No one is getting ...

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