Recent content by eudamonia

Trading is as simple or difficult as you decide to make it. The problem with most beginning traders is that they want trading shortcuts. Ultimately there are no shortcuts. You want the true "holy grail" of trading? Here it is: Spend 3-5 hours per day (during market hours) for 2-5 years watching...

At the risk of feeding the trolls I feel I need to speak up. I don't often post here (most of my posts are at Kreslik.com). And no I am not Avery. But I do know him. Uktradergirl - you don't have a thread and you don't scalp but you don't mind bashing someone else's ideas that you don't...

Thanks everyone for the feedback and suggestions. Sounds to me like most everyone would prefer the crummy trading hours of California over the crummy weather of England. I think some people might have been confused over the family. We have family on both sides of the pond who are great...

Yeah everyone mostly pointed out the issue: Family and Better Hours or Cheaper and Sunnier. On the plus side isn't it pretty cheap to catch a flight to Spain? I would love to live there (or perhaps in France) but no one wants us Yankies ruining their great country...If it weren't for my...

Right now my wife and I are considering moving to the U.K. in the next few years. I'd like to get some input from some folks regarding whether they think this is doable/advisable and any special considerations we should be aware of. Some additional things to consider: 1) My wife and I both...

Grantx, I haven't looked at the bond markets although I know a couple guys who trade it. I'll have to check it out. Edward

PKFFW, Yes this is doable. I trade the ES and I make 1-2 points about 60% of all days. More importantly I'm net positive in 85% of all weeks. I typically take about 10 trades during the first 2 hours of the day and 7 trades in the last 2 hours. My average net expectancy is about 1 tick per...

Scalping is doable For those doubters that scalping is doable, I do it every day on the eMini Russell. Check out my trades at http://lordtedders.blogspot.com and watch how I do it. It's about using S/R intelligently with OB/OS indicators like RSI/RSX. Edward