Recent content by iota

Can't argue causes, but I can sure see the consequences. *whistles* look at those markets bomb.

I'm figuring if I can take it to 10x the initial without dropping under the initial again, I'll look at putting real money in to an account. Until then I'm just in training and/or wasting my time. And yeah, it is tough. And long, don't forget long.

The current one started at £250, went up to almost £1.5k on the USD/JPY elevator ride a few months back and came crashing back to just under £100 on the same ride. At that point I stopped looking for quick fixes and started taking positions/swing trading/whatever you'd like to call it. Currently...

Perhaps it's semantics... but basically I agree with you. I have the expectation of reward, but no actual knowledge of how much. But I don't go in if I don't expect more in return than I'm laying down. Maybe in year two I'll agree with you, but for now this is my preference and opinion. Again...

Trading is like the matrix: Even if you're the one, everybody falls the first time. I've read countless posts along the lines of 'I blew/am blowing/will blow my account'. They're all generally from those that have jumped straight in at the deep end and they're drowning for lack of experience. In...

Oppurtunistic.

On the upside, it's forcing people to actually look at the world they live in. Some are even getting mad about it.

Set and forget. Check in every so often. Put an alert on for targets, and then one or two beyond targets either way so if it moves exponentially in either direction I know the loud *ping* means that went better|worse than I expected.

Yeh, like he said; SLV plus GLD & USO

I was gonna try and tap out my own response but that was pretty much what I intended to say and far more succinctly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGbr32Hn3bo&feature=related

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." -Lord Acton

So true. eight years on after being defaulted for a pitiful sum I'm having to speak to a solicitor about getting a default removed that should have expired 2 years ago because a debt chaser has been updating as in default regardless. In the meantime I've been unable to get a mortgage, credit...