(sound of crickets after that one) ... it was -- ahem -- kinda tasteless. Not the stool sample, the joke. For anyone that might want to respond to this by lofting further stool samples, I'll be hiding behind the Code of Conduct rule about no ...

The FED has said it will buy an unlimited amount of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities. For anyone that knows how currency is created, this means flooding the country and the world with cash in unlimited amounts. Once the current ...

The safest position to be in during an economic crisis is to be neither a borrower nor a lender. I find it ironic that at the first sign of crisis, the first and only thing that central banks do is encourage further debt. When the only tools in your ...

Sweet. Do you happen to know which Asian countries that would include? I have seen a Canadian tax interpretation bulletin that says that gains on foreign exchange is taxed at half the normal rate. However, it's unclear to me if that rule applies to ...

around 4 years

Just following a bit of news... Nomura's propriety sentiment data shows a "deterioration in supply demand for equities and a sharp downward break in fundamentals" among big players in the market like hedge funds. The market plunge could arrive as ...

I've traded with duka. They are tops for security of funds. Their primary client software is JForex. They sometimes grudgingly offer MT4, but I suspect they don't actually process those trades themselves, they just send that volume over to someone ...

New tariffs on China announced today. Anyway, IDK if that July high will end up being a top, but we can't declare the up trend to be over yet. August is an unlikely month for big bear moves without some big geopolitical or economic event to drive ...

Nice! Do you closely follow the Delta cycles? I did some research on them some time back but never traded using them. Isn't there a super LTD cycle, something like 19 years? I wonder what part of that cycle the stock market is currently in.

Indeed, this is a great strategy if you can get the timing right. Especially deep OTM puts that are close to expiry. I did precisely this during the Dotcom boom -- my puts increased by more than 10x in less than a day. I shoulda taken the money. ...

The ultimate impact that Libra is going to have upon the world will be orders of magnitude greater than bitcoin and the other crypto coins. Libra is a stablecoin, the plan is to back it with a basket of fiat currencies. With the clout that a large ...

What sort of Plan B exit would you use for stock indices these days? SP500 futures have a daily limit AFAIK, but I don't know whether MT4 brokers offering US500 CFDs would enforce daily limits or not. If they do not, such CFDs might be subject to ...

Yes, of course the shock that triggers panic selling will be something nobody expected or predicted. But as you have previously mentioned, there are "circuit breaker" rules in the stock exchanges to prevent a 1987-style all-out panic sell. And the ...