Year on year they're dreadful stats. I wonder what the issue is, too much competition or a real contraction in retail trading across the board?

Aren't we at 0.1% for the last quarter?

You should have made it clear you were being sarcastic.

A very sobering tale, thanks for sharing.

What a massively disappointing article.

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I genuinely don't know how that guy Tyler keeps down a job at FXCM. His article writing skills are negligible and the content is shocking.

I didn't realise things were so bad in parts of the USA wrt property values, the spin is that the market is recovering nationwide.

This guy writes the worst articles I've ever read on FX trading.

No it hasn't, the two issues are totally unrelated.

In which instance they shouldn't be trading unless they have a trading plan underpinning their every move, nothing should be left to chance even though probabilities play a huge part in what we do. No trades or management of the trades should be ...

Would you explain why suggesting trading emini as opposed to FX is "full of shit"? On the contrary I'd suggest that the poster really does have his shit together and "knows his shit" as they say in the USA.

Scalping, in the true meaning of the discipline, cannot be successfully managed from retail platforms given the spreads, the commissions, the slippage and poor fills. Can you trade as a day trader? For sure, but that's not scalping. However, if ...

In March 2014, the quantity bought in the retail industry increased by 4.2% compared with March 2013 and by 0.1% compared with February 2014. The quantity bought also increased in Q1 2014 compared with Q1 2013, by 3.8%. This continues a pattern of ...

Two things, annual sales are up 4.2% and the small 0.1% increase beat expectations of -0.4%. Secondly if you're expecting bloomberg to put a negative slant on any news wehre they can tub thump to their hearts content then you need to read another ...

IMHO the majority on here who can trade and do have the capital required should trade e mini.

JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Group of 7 Volatility Index dropped to 6.27 percent, approaching the record low of 5.73 percent reached in June 2007. It was at 8.56 percent at the start of the year.

That's a good read. Ta.

The swing trading that I've seen 'work' with indicators used a combination of (for example) PSAR, MACD, DMI and RSI. Iirc they were all left on their standard settings. The PSAR was used very well as a trailing stop mechanism and IMO that's the key ...