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Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 19th, 2023, 01:51 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
I think it may be if they don't tell you that...

I think it may be if they don't tell you that it's what they're doing, i.e. if they lead you to believe that someone else, rather than themselves, is the counterparty? That's dishonest, surely? (It...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 19th, 2023, 11:25 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
If anyone wants to follow the story, MFF is in...

If anyone wants to follow the story, MFF is in temporary receivership (http://www.myforexfunds.com).

www.msbnj.com/our-team/anthony-sodono-III
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 17th, 2023, 06:37 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
If there are people paying money to the company...

If there are people paying money to the company on the basis of misleading or dishonest information (whether or not they're "investors" per se), a court might declare that illegal.
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 16th, 2023, 10:26 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
All the money Madoff's investors made during the...

All the money Madoff's investors made during the first couple of decades was real enough, too - but obviously that didn't make the business lawful, so it's no criterion at all by which to judge.
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 15th, 2023, 01:30 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
They'll have paid out a lot in affiliate...

They'll have paid out a lot in affiliate commissions, too, I would think ... but I don't think the details of the math/figures are what really matter here, myself.

I'm more interested in the...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 15th, 2023, 12:47 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
By being the trader's counterparty. It's not...

By being the trader's counterparty. It's not complicated!

It's just what happens when you hold the other side of "trades" made by someone who succeeds. After you're "funded," Apex actually holds...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 15th, 2023, 08:53 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
I’m broadly speaking on your side of the...

I’m broadly speaking on your side of the discussion anyway (no surprise there).

I also think spot forex/CFD “funding companies” are probably a whole different world from futures funding companies....
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 11th, 2023, 12:00 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
Indeed - the position-sizes that many/most of...

Indeed - the position-sizes that many/most of these funding companies allow their triallists to use give you palpitations, just looking at them.

Even at Topstep, if you try what they call the...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management September 10th, 2023, 01:56 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 334
Posted By Tymbeline
The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists...

The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street

Thomas A. Bass (1998)
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors September 10th, 2023, 06:17 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 3,136
Posted By Tymbeline
I agree - but let's not forget that even the...

I agree - but let's not forget that even the regulators' complaint specifies that out of that $310 Mil, they paid out $173 Mil in profits to their traders (not something any spot forex/CFD broker has...
Forum: Traders Hideout September 8th, 2023, 05:57 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 4,088
Posted By Tymbeline
This somehow reminds me of some lines by T.S....

This somehow reminds me of some lines by T.S. Eliot (from Little Gidding):-

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the...
Forum: Traders Hideout September 7th, 2023, 10:32 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 4,088
Posted By Tymbeline
Topstep, E2T and Tradeday all give you a choice,...

Topstep, E2T and Tradeday all give you a choice, when you pass, of whether you want Live or Live-Sim (but reserve the right to move you from Live-Sim to Live at some point, too).

There are one or...
Forum: Traders Hideout September 6th, 2023, 09:56 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 4,088
Posted By Tymbeline
Some clearly don't. I believe others do. ...

Some clearly don't.

I believe others do.

But of course there's a world of difference between futures funding companies and spot-forex/CFD "funding" companies like MFF, just as there's a world...
Forum: Traders Hideout September 5th, 2023, 01:01 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 4,088
Posted By Tymbeline
Hello again, Howard ... Interesting thread,...

Hello again, Howard ...

Interesting thread, of course. I've hardly been online here for the last 2-3 months (been ill, long story, not worth repeating and not relevant anyway), but am recently...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors August 14th, 2023, 02:27 PM
Replies: 627
Views: 205,610
Posted By Tymbeline
The end of 2023, now?! Wow: in October last year,...

The end of 2023, now?! Wow: in October last year, you were "working on being able to provide that."

No impoliteness intended at all, Orianna, but I think you can't be surprised, by this point, to...
Forum: Off-Topic July 21st, 2023, 12:16 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 432
Posted By Tymbeline
Misinformation Susceptibility Test

University of Cambridge psychologists have developed the first validated “misinformation susceptibility test”. (https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/misinformation-susceptibility-test)

The quick...
Forum: Traders Hideout May 15th, 2023, 12:42 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,102
Posted By Tymbeline
So sorry - I've only just seen your post now,...

So sorry - I've only just seen your post now, about 3 weeks after it was made!



I suspect it may not be a very popular or representative suggestion, in these parts, but I wonder whether "6E"...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 26th, 2023, 02:19 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,102
Posted By Tymbeline
You say "only", but that undoubtedly puts you...

You say "only", but that undoubtedly puts you well above average. (Yes, I know Blackgrey has already said this, above, but some things are worth saying again!).



I do. You're very new and...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 22nd, 2023, 08:49 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,483
Posted By Tymbeline
It's a question that only they can answer...

It's a question that only they can answer factually: all the rest of us can do is guess.

My own guess is that there are two main reasons.

Firstly, the market is now so competitive and their own...
Forum: Off-Topic April 15th, 2023, 07:05 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 6,677
Posted By Tymbeline
Scientists at the university of Innsbruck have...

Scientists at the university of Innsbruck have discovered over 30,000 viruses by using the high-performance computer cluster 'Leo' and sophisticated detective work. The viruses hide in the DNA of...
Forum: Off-Topic March 27th, 2023, 10:44 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 6,677
Posted By Tymbeline
In a new study, University of California, Irvine...

In a new study, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the "terminator zone,"...
Forum: Trading Journals March 24th, 2023, 09:39 AM
Replies: 337
Views: 26,034
Posted By Tymbeline
I think you're right. The only way I'd try a...

I think you're right.

The only way I'd try a $300k one, myself, is by qualifying for a small account and winning the $300k entry-fee out of it first. As people (rightly) say, and I keep reminding...
Forum: Trading Journals March 24th, 2023, 07:20 AM
Replies: 337
Views: 26,034
Posted By Tymbeline
Sounds ok ... I found yesterday very difficult.

Sounds ok ... I found yesterday very difficult.
Forum: Traders Hideout March 24th, 2023, 07:11 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,271
Posted By Tymbeline
This is a really interesting poll. I was...

This is a really interesting poll.

I was surprised (and pleased) to discover that I'm apparently not the only person slightly nervous of Wifi and cellphones, for trading.

I'm also surprised to...
Forum: Off-Topic March 22nd, 2023, 10:34 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 6,677
Posted By Tymbeline
Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter”...

Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there is some controversy over exactly how to categorize complex phenomena, specifically whether or not to...
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