The single most important factor is having control of your own life.
- Joined Nov 2006 | Status: Member | 3,927 Posts
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
It is so easy, yet so hard 18 replies
Help! Any easy way to rename or copy objects in an MQ4 indicator program? 4 replies
Easy way to distinguish weekly info. on metatrader? 2 replies
Easy way to calculate position sizes? 3 replies
Doing things the "easy" way = failure? 8 replies
Disliked{quote} h, I know I'm nitpicking, but why is spread paid at the closing and not the opening? IMO the cost is created because we must buy at the ask price and sell at the bid price; whether one views that as opening or closing is arbitrary. Just asking. DIgnored
Disliked{quote} //---- hey hanover.... if the spread did not fluctuate it would be arbitrary..... but for most of us it does fluctuate so it is at most an unknown cost until the point of the trades closure.....
negative swap is the silent killer for me.... that's a true cost.....hIgnored
Disliked{quote} Life is a mind-game. You are either playing to win, or you lose. Sometimes you have to hit rock-bottom to be able to start going in the right direction, but otherwise it's always pertinent to try to not self-sabotage... health, relationships, business, whatever. Thinking the right way helps make it easier to act the right way. Everything has a frame of reference, and if you use the wrong one you'll get the wrong results. You see failures every single day. You see that fat girl with too much make-up and not enough clothing and you know she...Ignored
Disliked{quote} Yeah, wolfy, I bet you fit in in all of the mentioned categories...Ignored
Disliked{quote} So you're, by your own confession, a fat, ugly, drunk girl who's by the same token steals stuff and in debt ?!?! This is gotta be a joke...Ignored
DislikedGood day all IF 80-90% ppl lose money trading, then it's def worse than casino stats, i mean blackjack gives u nearly 50/50...Ignored
DislikedGood day all IF 80-90% ppl lose money trading, then it's def worse than casino stats, i mean blackjack gives u nearly 50/50... Thus losing money trading is definitely a man made venture to destruction which includes but not limited to certain psychological biases / emotional obstacles that WE create upon ourselves. During college days of 08/09... my buddies and I were talking about how this is the biggest opportunity of a lifetime to buy stocks at insanely cheap valuations etc etc etc... all excited. Guess what? we did buy, but we also sold. Man......Ignored
Dislikedluck is absolutely an essential factor, run a simulation even using the exact same system, it is so evident. {quote}Ignored
Disliked{quote} There is no "systematic" solution to be successful in trading.Ignored
Disliked{quote} One must know why the market is wrong and entering only when the market starts understanding it; not before nor after. How accurate is this "Why" and this "When" depends mainly on how hard you can work on it: -What do you know about what's going on and what's looming (Information). -What do you know about participants behaviour (market sentiment, techs, specs, institutionals..) . -What do you know about market dynamics (liquidity search, price formation..). -Do you have a solid knowledge of economics, global macro economy, monetary policies...Ignored