Recent content by Outside_The_Box

This is interesting, found here.

I'm with you guys on silver (and gold). I primarily trade FX but I do buy physical metals when they're on sale. The best buying opportunities are always at the height of pessimism. Everyone will say you are crazy and will even go so far as to insult you, but all you have to do is point to the...

Here's one that was just released. These are all the different MA's this one indicator can plot for you. Pretty cool huh? I'm a fan of the regular old EMA and the T3 MA. MA_Method= 0: SMA - Simple Moving Average MA_Method= 1: EMA - Exponential Moving Average MA_Method= 2: Wilder...

You can open a paper trading account with Thinkorswim. It's called "Paper Money". They have just about everything on their platform, including the individual currencies you're asking about like the USD Index, Euro futures, Yen futures, etc. It's free too, and last I knew it never expired. I've...

As far as books go, I recommend anything by the following authors: Mark Douglas Alexander Elder Jack Schwager (the Market Wizards series) Steve Nison And these: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Trading and Exchanges - Market...

I'm not going to give you advice, but I will tell you my story. Here's the short version: I graduated high school in 2000, did college for a year, enlisted in the military for 4 years, got out and went back to work in the food service while going to college. I decided to get into trading about...

There are some good newsletters/research providers out there, but they're the kind that you pay for. Things like Casey Research, EWI, and the like. Things like penny stock newsletters are of course, a waste of time.

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Hey folks. Just joined yesterday. I've visited this site before but never thought to join until recently. Anyway, I've been trading for about 4 years now. I'm not rich yet, but I'm working on it. LOL I'm finally getting to that point where everything is starting to gel in a meaningful way. I...

rofl Hindsight makes for some pretty good comedy.

Well, it's not that you need it to not give you signals, it's just that you need to know when to employ your system and when not to employ it. Trend following systems break down when the market ranges, just as range trading systems break down when the market trends. If you want to use your trend...

I have been using MT4 for a few years and I really like it. If there are any custom indicators you're wanting, let me know. I have thousands, multi timeframe indi's, a "swiss army" moving average, pivots, a real MACD indicator :lol:, you name it. I'll even customize them for you if you want...