So you want to be a successful day trader? Part1

Life Style

The life of a day trader doesn’t start out with hot women and fast cars, even though many want to believe this. If this is what you want then let this be your ambition to succeed. If you want to reap the benefits of being a successful day trader you need to realize it’s not going to happen overnight or within the first few years. Just like any business, you’ll need to put the majority of your time, energy and money into this venue. So before we get into the real life scenarios and the sacrifices that you’ll More >

OIL-1

Technical Analysis vs. Buy and Hold: What yields more?

Regarding the role of the technical analysis in trading, before 1980s most researchers criticised it and concluded that is not able to produce as good results as the buy-hold strategy (Alexander, 1961; Jensen and Bennington, 1970; Fama, 1970). However, later studies have proven the opposite (Pruitt and White 1988, Bessembinder and Chan 1995). Trading rules/systems (using technical indicators) based on past data could create excess returns and prove that usefulness of technical analysis. Such conclusions had Brock, Lakonishok and Lebaron (1992), later Bessembinder and Chan (1995, 1998), Lo, Mamaysky and Wang (2000) and many others — Nikitas Goumatianos

Either Way, Timing More >

USD DUMP

aww . FOMC statement. That explains the current spike on the charts. =) QE3 must be on the lips. I’m still LONG EURO.

Scamming Forex Traders With MetaTrader

I came across ECNJESUS.com and there are several short videos that display the administration function within the Metatrader Trading platform. If you’ve heard of the Virtual Dealer Plugin, well here’s proof of it. Enjoy.

mono_da

www.Monoda.net = Scam

What a day. Well here’s another scam in the making. A new user on Myfxbook popped up on the Manage YouR Money Listing Board. Their using the trading history from another scammer, AcmeHedge.com – You can read the dicussion on Myfxbook if you like or you can read my article pointing out the arbitrage strategy to prevent the account from losing. Click here.

Below you will see the Two identical accounts under two different users on Myfxbook. The account belongs to AcmeHedge and Not Monoda.net. Either way it doesn’t matter because these trading results are from a broker in Panana, ECN Alpha More >

The_Internet_Time_Machine

ForexSocialSignal Explained

I’m a little disappoint after watching the ITM financial youtube videos because I was expecting statistical figures with evidence that would give us a potential edge as a forex trader. Unfortunately, all the videos included were some chit chat, trading termonology and video footage of some trades running live… It wasn’t convencing to say the least.

Their idea is based off the Twitter Hedge Fund and if this is the first time you’ve heard of this, google it. You won’t be disappointed. You might even come across the research paper that introduced this theory of using social hubs as an More >