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Thanks for the reply BBull, I would be aiming at the UK. Sorry, I must clarify when I said Austrian economics, I meant the field rather than practising in Austria. The classics like Von Mises, Rothbard( Theory of money and credit), Shostok etc. I guess my...

Hi, I have been educating myself on fundamentals and economics, with a leaning on Austrian economics. I m trying to understand the macro economics and looking at the economic out look and profile for countries, commodities, forex, currencies. So my trading/investment philosophy is to get a...

Jim Rogers is the man,IMHO. Very insightful and interesting person, and very likeable. He tells it how it is. George Soros said he was able to do the work of 6 analsysts and he made more money than Soros made on his own and with Drukenmeiller. Anytime I watch him, the interviewers act like he is...

Well,it has been both. Deflation came first, that was what has taken us to this stage of inflation. I mean deflation is a positive...who doesnt want their money to have more purchasing power. However there is one situation where deflation is a disaster. Especially defaltion of assets.That is...

Jim Rogers has just said these actions will lead to the demise of the FED. JIm Rogers has been very right about alot. he said Citibank would go to 5USD and people laughed at him on Bloomberg, CNBC...they aint laughing now. He is also up 400% on his commodity account since 1999. Band aid after...

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide The forcing through of the Bear Sterns deal at 2 USD and now this. They wanted to get this stuff done to stop a potential collapse in the financial markets before they open. This is desperation, and it looks like the FED know the situation is really bad. They are...

Thanks alot guys for your great replys. What I might do is start off by offering it to people I know,friends,relatives and they can evaluate how good it is. You all have been very helpful.

I got rid of Norton software, as I found it takes over the whole machine and in my case slowed my laptop down. When I got rid of it and got new av software my system certainly got faster.

Hi there, I write this thread with some trepidation. Basically I was thinking that I might want to start a signal service. My reason is that I have living(rent,etc)expenses like we all do. However I was thinking if I had a small income from this monthly then I wouldnt have to touch...

Hi Jtrader, this was one of the reasons I stopped looking at shortterm systems, ie, intraday systems. I just didnt like the volatility involved with all the news releases...I started to trade daily charts where I found if I got the trend right then the volatility would nt effect my position too...

I was just wondering what are the drawbacks of the Mt4 EA. Lets say you run a few tests on it and get some good results what would the danger be of using this system with real money. lets say the modelling quality was good also. has anyone any experience with mt4 EA. Is it reliable? Any...

Thats a fair point Dcraig. proactive futures does offer a whole range of charting applications and auto trade.. I m not sure about multiple currency accounts. I must check that. reveiws of proactive seem to be nearly all good as far as speed goes. For me they do offer a good range of markets...

For the last few days i ve been shopping around trying to find a broker. I want to move away from the bucket shop forex providers and start using a futures broker. Anyway here is my list and my thoughts on what I ve found out so far... Interactive Brokers: I rang up and gave the guy my...

Sh*t, the GBP/JPY has went to 118.01, thats some drop. Only joking, i take it that you made a typo and meant USD/JPY.

Thanks alot for your reply. It looks like forex might the easiest way to start, as it has the lowest leverage. thanks again.