Will the modern financial system exist, if there are no losers?

I think target audiences of Dr. SteenBarger’s article are hedge funds, market makers and brokers. A retail trader does not have capital, knowledge, skill or other resources to compete with Colonel Boyd’s of the financial markets, so acting like a ...

I heard about Sun Tzu in the chapter 4 of the book “Getting Past No” by William Ury. Quote was “build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across”, apparently there are many interpretations of the original text. One of them is “show him there is ...

Sometimes an attack could be a lightning fast ambush and retreat by trading robots, in which case retail traders will get screwed, if they are with attackers. This type attacks occur at the time of major news release, usually very fast first move, ...

You are talking about simple things that a trader needs to know to excel in the trading business, but who wish to do it? I think, majority of retail traders do not want to make rational decisions and accept outcome (gain and loss) gracefully like a ...

Interesting predictions, so guess you draw two major circles (buying zone and selling zone) fitting highs and lows, from break out point. Break out point price is the centre of selling zone and low pivot before break out is the most likely centre of ...

A rational motivation to trade Forex markets could be money, but are we rational? Dan Ariely and many behavioral economists told us a different rationale. video url url When we look at history of mankind for the last 3000 years or more, it ...

I am not a Confucian, but I read somewhere that Yin and Yang represent two opposing forces or entities that sustain life or universe and not apparent outcomes of an action. And if you look at that way Yin and Yang could be fear and greed that keep ...

url Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short ...

Back to square one, otherwise trading would have been a most boring task and "zero sum game" would have evolved itself into a "infinite sum game"

Creativity does help us to think differently and find newer ways of trading; therefore it is good for trading strategy development. However, it could blow your account, if you let your creative juices flow at the time of trading. “Mean Markets and ...

Perception of Financial Market trend and other conditions are the product of the trader's believes. Most of all markets are synthetic environments or risk distribution systems, therefores efforts to associate financial market with a natural ...

Backtesting is one of the best methods to assess risks and rewards of a trading idea. It is important to do tests properly before forming a conclusion. Cherry's post reflects natural tendency/urgency of people to form believes based on a few ...

Well, that is the standard recipe of trading books these days, especially books from Wiley Trading/financial press. Little bit of meaningless statistics, bits of history, some trading myths, some thoughts on psychology, some correlation stories or ...

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Edge is an advantage over your competitors. If you are a retail trader or price taker, you have very limited or no advantage over others. However, edge is excessively used to describe statistical advantage of a strategy, which is nothing but average ...

USDJPY is sitting at the bottom of the multi-year linear regression channel (120 months,2std). Why do you think that BOJ would do nothing to help Japanese exporters?

Every trading system fails at times. Money management is more important than TA. What is the expectancy of this trading System?

Bobokus, Interesting strategy… I guess that you have been trading "Fib breakout type strategy" for sometime. Would you mind sharing details below ? Payoff Ratio [$] (average winning trade /average losing trade) Profit factor or reward/risk ratio ...