That's obviously a reaction seeking statement, and opens up the question as to what you are looking for at FF? There are many good trader's on FF that have put in a huge amount of time and effort into threads that are a source for people trying to ...

This strategy is pretty common in stocks using options, but it is basically called a straddle, rather than capital neutral, the reason being is that there is decay with the option. The longer you hold them the less value they have. If you can get ...

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If you are looking for the 'reasons' behind trends, you are looking at them from a global-macro trading perspective and you will need to look into a few things such as interest rates, money supply, and long term employment trends. If a country A is ...

Agreed about the leverage restrictions in Canada, but to me the biggest problem is the uneven leverage across pairs, not the degree of leverage it's self. I actually wouldn't want 100:1 anymore, 50:1 is perfectly fine for retail trading, and if I ...

Z-score — There is actually an indicator for this, with a reported success rate of 72% accuracy predicting bankruptcy within two years called the Z-score. I don't know all of the input variables for the Z-score, but , if you had a strategy ...

Livermore — A biography of the greatest trader in history, Jesse Livermore, and Pitbull, a modern day Reminiscences of a Stock operator.

Forexlive is a good site for stops and option barriers etc, and there is usually some good discussion about the markets from some experienced traders on that site as well.

Jason Alan Jankovsky wrote this book about his experiences and market views early in his career as a trader, and has alot of really insightful things to say. The chapter that makes this book A+++ in my view is chapter 3 where he basically debunks ...

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Have to disagree with this being a myth, I know you are a martingale trader, so I see how this isn't the only way to trade, but it's far from a myth. If you employ a trend following model, catch a several week or even several month move that ...

You can look into PAMM accounts, that's probably the best way to go to control the risk for both of you. I think that some bigger brokers like Alpari offer these. You would also be wise to not trade someone else's money in your trading account, ...