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My name is Mantas and I'm a sociology student in Denmark. Trading for me has been interesting from the academic perspective (esp. technology <-> trust issue), and also because of open opportunities for investing.
I have mostly traded Forex currency pairs, using demo accounts. News trading didn't work well for me, so I am leaning towards fundamentals and technical analysis. Recently, I've read about the straight line approach (will follow up with the link), which seemed to be quite interesting and a valid analysis. Maybe someone knows about it or has tried it?
Some of my questions at the moment: how to choose a broker and how to decide, which trading platform to use? I have tried MT4, Tradable, and Saxo Web, and i think i liked Tradable more because of the customisation options and overall user experience. But does that really matter in trading? Not all brokers offer that platform, which it creates a limitation in terms of available brokers.
Hopefully, I'll learn more about trading world here!
My journey into trading business has been a long research. I have searched for a way to do day trading with the most suitable platform, most stable instruments and to be able to manage my trading in a clear, straithforward and simple manner. (I avoid make my life complicated)
So currently I am studying what will fit me best, low risk, small investment and continous profits daily.
So far I am heading for cooperation with reliable/honest european broker for suitable instruments. Ig.com sounds like a good choice?
What I learned so far price action and futures might be the right choice.
Just wanted to say thank you for the site, the sharing of knowledge and the indicators. My goal is to become an outstanding trader. Right now, I am a beginner. Once I have some knowledge of value to share, I will gladly help others to succeed.
I am currently in the Navy
Been trading for 3 years now in stocks and now switching to futures
Consider myself still a beginner to learn new things.
In 2 years I will be getting out to finish school and jump at trading full time
Glad I found this forum because there is a lot of information here
[SIZE="<font><font>4</font></font>"]Hallo Traders und Traderinnen
Es ist einsam als Trader...
Obwohl ich mag die Stille, nach meinem bisherigen lauten Leben.
Um etwas in Kontakt zu kommen mit Gleichgesinnten, habe ich dieses Forum gefunden...
Danke an Mike !
Es sind die Gefühle, die man als erstes beim Traden beiseite legen sollte, nur so einfach ist das nicht. Oder ist doch ein gutes Gefühl sich was zu kaufen mit Geld !? Also die Gefühle kann man nicht unterdrücken am Markt, wäre auch ein Fehler mein Ich. Seltsamer weise, habe ich dazu mir aufgeschrieben mein Bauchgefühl in einen Trade reinzugehen oder nicht. Und ich muss sagen mein Bauchgefühl wenn ich mich darauf ernsthaft konzentriere, ist der beste Indikator den ich habe. Ich bin also ein Emotions Trader und dass aus gutem Grund heraus. Denn man darf es nicht verwechseln mit Gier und Angst, das hat damit nicht das geringste zu tun ! Es ist die Empathie des Marktes. Das ist was ich zu erfassen vermag. Das hat mein Trading enorm vorangebracht. Sich voll auf die Emotion des Marktes einlassen.
I am an experienced trader, and have been doing it for about five years. I started with stocks, then forex, and now am doing futures. In addition to that I plan to start trading futures options this year. All my trading has been done on Tradestation. I am the most familiar with currencies.
I started trading when a friend suggested I may be good at it, and I started with the program at the Online Trading Academy. I joined some trader's groups here in New York City, and traded part-time from home. I have my own accounting business when occupies me during the day, and for me trading is a personal, rather than a professional, activity. I'm trading only my own accounts.
I see trading as a way of life. If you have savings, you have to find something intelligent to protect and grow them. Entrusting your savings to someone else isn't a good idea because an outside party will not always put your interests over their own. We are all responsible to learn about investing our savings on our own.
I enjoy the community in trading as well. The market is a lot of people interacting with each other, and it takes a group to really understand it better.
Hi everyone, it seems I registered 873 days ago but never used the forum !
I have moderate experience achieving zero returns on spot fx with under-funded accounts and discretionary, gut-driven position taking. Along the way I have read a lot of academic research thinking I should be able to implement a good algorithmic strategy that keeps my guts away from the trading. And here I am in 2016, feeling like its my own responsibility to make my savings work for me and very keen on resuming those efforts, but this time with Futures.
Being a seasoned data and software engineer, I have also made good progress updating my dusty machine learning skills.
- For research my go-to approach is to spin either RStudio or Jupyter Notebooks and use various techniques such as extreme gradient boosted trees or deep neural networks.
- For production I am considering implementing those strategies with C++/Rcpp or C#.
I am now at the point where I need to identify good feeds and start working on historical data that best reflects execution conditions (thinking IQFeed in case my strategies require going by the tick). Also looking for recommendations for a reputable broker and API (thinking Rithmic for API?).
