Uhm, you said over the last 12 months. Which means at no point in the last 12 months has the stock moved. The stock has moved a lot in the last 12 months. LOL. Cute.

We are approaching VERY serious times

Yes, we know that. But your not addressing our issue. The tick volume in forex that's provided by your broker is not universal, it's specific to your broker. So how can you know when a 100 billion dollar fund is investing in your currency when your ...

Does anybody suggest any Volume Spread Analysis Indicators?

Fair enough. I just think, in general, it's easier to gauge sentiment from TA than it is from trying to guess at how the fundamentals will be read. Marber's book "Marber on Markets" makes an excellent case for TA in that context. Uhm. Actually no. ...

We are approaching VERY serious times

But the ban didn't force people to buy... so the market pre-priced the return of short sellers in advance. That's why the short ban didn't really do anything, people weren't going to buy with the specter of returning shorts hanging over them. Sure, ...

We are approaching VERY serious times

Yea, but none of that mattered in the bull market. The reason it took a ride to the basement was that the overall market sentiment took a dive, allowing short sellers to drive the market. In a bull market people ignore bad data, in a bear market ...

We are approaching VERY serious times

Yea, but that's fantasy volume. It's tick volume generated by the broker, which means there's no "big dog" information there... it's all information generated by other local traders at your broker. VSA works well in stocks, to be sure. A lot of ...

Does anybody suggest any Volume Spread Analysis Indicators?

Nod, yea, but they do include futures w/ the CFTC statement later on. The model would kill equities too, altho that wouldn't directly impact us if so worded, it would still not be good. The CFTC clause applies it to spot, or at least it definitely ...

Forex Taxes

On the first page I quoted from the full text of the bill. You can find it here: url Down towards the bottom, section 3, Subchapter C, subsection (a), reads: "(a) Imposition of Tax- There is hereby imposed a tax on each covered securities ...

Forex Taxes

Actually he's correct. This is based on position size, not profit. So... Standard lot is $100,000. Pip value is $10 per pip. $100,000 buy, $100,000 sell. That's .25% per trip or .50% total. $100,000 * .005 = $500. That's a $500 tax on the trade. Now ...

Forex Taxes

But what constitutes wall street, anyway? I invest in ETFs, index funds and mutual funds. All of which are wall street products. They have to buy and sell in order to balance their portfolio. That means those of us that invest this way have to pay ...

Forex Taxes

There's no way you can know why things happen before they happen. "Why" is a rationale applied after the fact. It's playing analyst, not trader. What you have to do is find an edge in the market. A way to read the market that provides some ...

What made it fall like this?

LOL. Problem is: this isn't Obama. Going after the wrong people just makes this more confusing. It's this guy: 1. url 2. url According to his bio on wikipedia he actually voted AGAINST the new stimulus bill. One of only 9 to not vote yes, 1 of ...

Forex Taxes

Too bad hotspot closed it's retail side. I don't think there are any ECNs for your average retail trader in the UK.

Wanted: FSA regulated (UK) FX ECN broker

Ya, we talked a bit about that. Last check, it was still in committee. You can find it on Thomas.loc.gov by searching for "Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout Act of 2009" Appears to have started w/ a 1 minute floor speech that ends with: ...

Forex Taxes

Haha, yep. There ya go.

What made it fall like this?

It fell because it wanted to fall. If you spend your time trying to figure out "why" things happen you're going to have a hard time trading.

What made it fall like this?

Thinking that fundamentals drive the market is like thinking that the road drives the car. Sentiment drives the market.

We are approaching VERY serious times

I take credit for my ability, or lack there-of in many cases, to forsee what should be obvious to me. I didn't. Furthermore, buying into a bubble is always bad. It should've been obvious (and was to many people) that it would eventually collapse. If ...

We are approaching VERY serious times

Basically you can opt to take it as ordinary income or as blended capital gains. That option has some important ramifications later on tho, you might not be able to change it back. Now, for instance if you treat it as capital gains... form 6781 ...

Forex Taxes

Bullpucky. The "fooled you with randomness" line is codespeak for "I failed at finding a decent edge, so I just wanted to blame my failures on the market rather than myself." The market, especially at these higher time frames, is far from random. ...

We are approaching VERY serious times