Forum: Discretionary Trading 
Aug 30, 2012, 10:45am
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Forum: Discretionary Trading
Aug 30, 2012, 10:37am
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Forum: The Foyer
Aug 30, 2012, 9:45am
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 8:16am
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Views: 5,210  Re: How often
let me add a bit more colour for you, get your juices flowing. london 07.24 reuters reported euro option expiry 1.2550, london lunchtime look at price in the chart. a bigger player took money from...
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 8:03am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,210 Re: How often
what exactly don't you buy? not making any sense amigo.
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 30, 2012, 8:01am
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Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
enjoy your little break mate. If you could kindly let me know via multi-nic pm how you got the ban I would be grateful, my efforts seem fruitless. :lol:
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 6:05am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,210 Re: How often
that would require you to know what 'safely' shown is. You can 'safely' show large liquidity to your clients (who you have liquidity agreements with) if you know that if they decide to trade you can...
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 30, 2012, 5:29am
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 5:19am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,210 Re: How often
troll denied. When i mentioned 'safely' shown this is specific to the structure of the Spot FX market, the oil market is not structured in that way but you knew that right. I cannot sensibly discuss...
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 4:53am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,210 Re: How often
there are many different types of 'large' trader in the market and they make money in different ways. I think what you are referring to above is where company goes to bank A and says they want hedge....
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Forum: Home Trader
Aug 30, 2012, 4:21am
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,210 Re: How often
ok the below should help. I am talking about the dumb flow, the dumb money. So lets take a typical dumb flow trade on 1 ES contract with a 10 tick stop. The trade is entered by mistake, random...
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 30, 2012, 4:07am
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Replies: 66
Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
reading through this thread last night I believe some people are viewing zero sum game in a different way.
All of the literature I have read on the matter refers to zero sum game as the sum of the...
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 11:34am
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Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
nope and that's where the lulz lies. you will get people who throw in technical arguments to prove a point when they miss the bigger picture.. :lol:
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 10:20am
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 9:52am
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 9:40am
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 9:23am
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 8:42am
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 8:23am
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Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
oh god no. There are umpteen reasons why people are in the market but I expect you knew this already :cheesy: any good book on market structure will reveal all.
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 7:35am
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 7:34am
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Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
whether markets exist for the house or not is a different debate and it might actually be something we agree on.
I was just wondering if I buy 500 future contracts and sell them for a profit of...
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 29, 2012, 7:25am
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Views: 3,009 Re: Zero Sum Or Not? Does It Matter?
my view is that it doesn't matter however it is very useful to think of trading as a zero sum game. Working out which participants make money how and why they go about it is very illuminating and you...
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 7:20am
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 7:17am
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Forum: Trading Firms
Aug 29, 2012, 7:14am
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Views: 5,057 Re: Re – 2 traders required to complete team of 4
you are a wise man Leopardo. Of course the bigger picture is that many lessons can be learned from thinking about trading as zero sum, if you know how other players profit or will act in certain...
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