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Back in the 60's I bought a course to understand the market, this was the most complicated and boring course
I have ever taken. If I could not sleep I'd pull out the course and start to read before the first paragraph
I was in lala land. You ever been there? I thought to myself no one in there right mind could understand
this gibberish. So what did I do I took it to the trash and forgot the stock market for25 years.
What a wasted time Then a friend or not took me to a Wade Cook seminar in good ole Dallas Texas.
After putting in 30 plus thousand dollars I was still losing money throwing good money after bad.
The last 10 years I am afraid to pull the trigger and almost ready to quit, but I am not a quitter so here I am.
Need HELP
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I'm creating this thread with the purpose of a 'catch all' for any trading related question that futures.io (formerly BMT) members want to ask, but don't want to create a new thread for -- or find an existing thread to reply to.
I've …
There are a few hundred questions & answers, so there is an excellent chance a lot of questions apply directly to your scenario or would be beneficial to you.
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Trading: Primarily Equity Index and Interest Rates Futures
Posts: 14 since Jan 2011
Thanks Given: 9
Thanks Received: 22
Good day all / Mike
I have been registered on the BigMikes Trading Forum for 542 days today and this is my first post, talk about been social. Well to be honest forums have never been my thing, I started trading back in 1994 when the internet was not accusable let alone forums but here I am and I decided to give it a bash. I have heard some good things about traders involved here and it’s never a bad thing to be around good traders.
A little about me before I go: I am from South Africa and I have been involved in the markets since 1994 starting out in Equities. In 2000 I received my ICMQ (International Capital Markets Qualification) and became a full time professional at that point. I am a registered securities trader with the JSE and a senior dealer registered with SAFEX.
I am a short term intraday trader with a strong fundamental understanding of order-flow and auction market theory. I use Market Profile and Cumulative Delta with Order-Flow as primary analytical tools with secondary elements such as fibonacci and traditional techniques forming part of my methodology. I have traded just about every asset class and instrument over the years but now days its Futures – Index and Interest Rates are my products of choice.
I've been trading for about a year now. Personally i love options but they lead to my first blow up in about 3 months.
Since then i've decided to use my expertise in statistics to come up with trading systems. I try and use risk management and a somewhat contrarian investor mentality to make money now.
Its been interesting to remove emotions from trading.
I have found a great mentor who has helped me challenge and remove myself from trading.
Very happy with my first year of trading.
I've been following this forum for a few months now and hope to find challenging opinions and to share some great concepts i've been working on lately.
Hi all out there,
This is nmy intro post to let you know where i am at with this!
Im determined to go from not knowing the diefference between a stock and a bond, to being able to make an astute technical analysis and implement a planned trade decision based on technicals and fundamentals.
Well, i haven,t stopped reading
stuff covered so far includes
Scott Carney
L Joufflais
P.Miner
K.Lien
Various online articles of different educational value.
Currently only follow eur usd, but thought i might branch out and begin looking at eur/jpy
Thanks for taking the time to register this post!
Mag
First post here, have been trading for a while this article sums up my beliefs about markets, the struggle between breakout and reversion to the mean. I will post only when I have something meaningful to add. For newer traders I would recommend
"Phantom of the Pits" the book is online. For new traders position size is everything, don't risk more than 2% to 5% on any one trade.
Trading: Primarily Equity Index and Interest Rates Futures
Posts: 14 since Jan 2011
Thanks Given: 9
Thanks Received: 22
After 17 years in the market I can say my experience is that for an "active" trader 2% to 5% is way to high "More Activity Should = Smaller Trade Size" especially for new traders. For me its more like 0.2% to 0.5% and my daily loss limit is 1% and I consider that a truly bad day. On the upside I may stop at 1% but its very rare I will continue to trade with a 2% profit in the bag and never beyond 3%