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- captaincobra replied Feb 17, 2021
Nala66: You are right. I am not considering diversification, hedging, stops, pyramiding, etc.. When brokers in Canada were limited to 50x, I did some shopping around, and found out more on this subject. But considering 90% of participants that get ...
- captaincobra replied Feb 17, 2021
Why is 100x a bad idea? It's all in the numbers. Brokers know that if you: 1. Take on 50x up to 100x leverage. 2. Go to max exposure on one or two positions. (most of us do this, and use up all the available margin, almost right away) Then all that ...
- captaincobra replied Feb 16, 2021
Restricting leverage is good. Going 100x is basically is a one way ticket to capital destruction.. and the regulators and brokers know it.. Also, the only reason they are clamping down, is that soooo many retail traders have blown up, and cried to ...
- captaincobra replied Jan 5, 2021
Who hasn’t gotten into trades too soon before the market has generated a signal. Who hasn’t entered a trade too late, or has convinced themselves not to take a loss only to end up with a bigger loss; or gotten out of trades too soon; or found ...
- captaincobra replied Nov 22, 2020
Also Bitcoin really smells like a bubble mania for the modern era. Checkout this guys stuff for a great historical view on these booms and busts. url The articles and Sunday Reads sections are gold.
- captaincobra replied Nov 20, 2020
Yes! BTC highlights a lot theory out there about markets. Some things from my notes: It is a study in volatility. For a "currency" it moved more in the last month, than RUB and BRL has YTD. (And everything else out there) The nature of BTC is ...
- captaincobra replied Nov 12, 2020
Both Fooled by Randomness and Evidence-Based Technical Analysis make a strong case against focusing too much on charts and technical analysis alone! Even more though, is when you compare to Robers Shiller's stuff and Reminiscences of a Stock ...
- captaincobra replied Oct 5, 2020
Yes. Paypal is a "buyers beware" situation. Despite the fee's crappy service, and all the alternatives, they have cornered the market successfully. Lock-in has been achieved. And like all cornered markets online, all that is left for them to do is ...
- captaincobra replied Sep 4, 2020
Awesome! Looks promising.. I would like to recommend this series on statistics 101. Has some great illustrative videos. Especially if you are new to learning about distributions, standard deviations, probabilities etc.. url
- captaincobra replied Apr 21, 2020
I would say, so far so good. The approach really slows things down, in terms of how often you trade. Before I started on this path, my equity curve was slowly drifting down, and was losing at a rate of approximately 4/5 trades. Started learning in ...
- captaincobra replied Jan 22, 2020
If you think about it, this approach is like building your own FF within excel spreadsheets with a score carding system... But instead of using PMI, NFP, CPI, etc.. as a temporary boost of volatility for a quick day trade, he is talking about ...
- captaincobra replied Dec 17, 2019
I am exploring this broker, and will likely open a small account soon to give them a try. They have marketing that seems to be geared towards attracting suckers.. however, I can't seem much wrong besides that. They don't do deposit bonuses. Which is ...
- captaincobra replied Sep 19, 2019
Great thread here. I have to say I am still holding on to the LONG bias for this for now. My avg position is 2.40, so I figure it would have to reach that area before I would admit defeat. I know it just hit the that patch of resistance. But ...
- captaincobra replied Apr 30, 2019
Wow, good to know. Clearly a scamming/dishonest broker... I suspect they were anticipating a rise in the pair, and wanted to clear out the LONGs off their orderbook in advance of the move.
- captaincobra replied Apr 29, 2019
Was that just on one particular brokers platform?
- captaincobra replied Nov 12, 2018
Brokers like Oanda, do this type of stuff at every session changeover, and at 5pm ET when the contracts roll over and swap is calculated. Also on Friday at the end of the day. Same with big news events. And I think at the end of the season / ...
- captaincobra replied Oct 24, 2018
Plenty of variations out there I am sure... You could fund the account with enough margin to cover one trade idea. Also, I've heard of traders having the amount match the monthly max loss. And finally, when you get hit with a margin call in many ...
- captaincobra replied Oct 23, 2018
The account itself becomes the stop loss. Only risk capital is actually moved into the trading account. Besides black swan events, the main risk would be the brokerage shop goes bust.
- captaincobra replied Oct 15, 2018
I believe the answer is it would be 50/50 for any pattern that forms. Regardless of time frame.
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