Recent content by montmorencyt2w

Big losses in the beginning are preferable to big wins in the beginning, because the latter will delude you into thinking it was your great skill and not luck. Get burned a few times, and you may learn to be more careful in future.

@jason: Apologies if this has come up and been answered before, but: 1. Does the Trading Station platform (Spread Betting) offer tick charts? 2. Can you trade microlots on the Tradestation platform (Spread Betting)? 3. If I open a demo account, will I be bombarded with phone calls...? :) 4...

"The Next Big Investment Boom" by Mark Shipman. (How to profit from commodities). In hindsight, it's probably not that great a book, but it's what first got me interested in trading, trends, and TA, so in a way, it's had the greatest influence, although I've learned a lot more elsewhere since...

@F: I was not around at the time, but in hindsight, notice you were quite correct about Draghi! :) In other news, the Chinese interest rate drop boosted commodity currencies, apparently. Only lurking and demo-ing for now, but following (when time allows) with great interest. Glad you had a...

For what it's worth, Ashraf Laidi's latest thoughts on the USD: http://ashraflaidi.com/forex-news/a-warning-sign-for-the-dollar-bulls

I may be off the wall here, but I wonder if you can relate this to using volume - there are definitely some aficionados of Volume in FX out there (even if it's "only" tick volume). By the same token, might those without access to tick charts benefit from using volume?

:D (GCSE shirley?) Edit: BTW, I'm thinking of adapting "The Quaker art of Peace" to trading.

Are you still around 5UMBloke? I thought of you, because I happened to notice that FXCM UK seemed to be explicitly welcoming (or at least tolerant of) scalpers (however they define the term). e.g. http://www.fxcm.com/uk/platforms/metatrader-4/benefits-fxcm-mt4/ (in the "trade execution"...

Yes. - I've been out of the game for a while. Old news, but not discussed on here at the time, apparently, at least not in this thread, where you might think it would be relevant. Is everyone asleep, or did they all desert the sinking ship ahead of time? Well since everyone says that most...

I've done something similar to you in the past (and more than once), but I must admit that 150 a point is truly heroic! Agree with your advice to the OP (except I'd say a month or two, or in my case, year or two), and might add that perhaps we all need a large notice above our trading desk...

Coming soon: "Are you addicted to Trade2win?" :D :twisted:

And so another spread betting thread dies a lingering death, seemingly. Could this be the reason, I wonder? http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/62801/london-capital-group-waves-farewell-to-prospreads-62801.html (and not because it was losing them money, I suppose). Stone me...

All pretty radical I don't doubt, but you hardly go far enough: Send the children up chimneys and down the mines! Or if their parents are starving, well, there is always Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal The country is going soft. There will be...

While you are awaiting Jason's reply, may I ask you if you could kindly report back to us in due course, how you get on scalping there? Thanks! (Saw your first post, and you seem to have a pretty sensible approach, if I may say so).

On that sort of subject, have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOykY2SMbZ0 Silly youtube title, but it's a good video, despite being 12 years old. It's about exponential growth which of course has many applications, including trading (e.g. if an account is growing at a steady x%...