200505-01

At least you didn't lose ten million dollars of your company's trading capital on the trade

200505-02

And we stepped off into the reception area of the trading floor

200505-03

You get a zero equity balance in your trading account. Why?

200505-04

If we stopped trading right now, we'd take in an incentive fee, at the end of the year

200505-05

I had a hard time telling where the currency pair was really trading

200505-06

They were late to the currency prop trading idea

200505-07

He was basing his entire trading system on something that simple

200505-08

The losses in my trading account from that morning had faded away

200505-09

Maybe that was the last trading you'll ever do

200505-10

Of course you're going to have to lose some money in the course of ordinary trading

200505-11

I had done some trading on company time

200505-12

If Alistair was trading one-million-dollar positions, then the 120 pips had made him twelve thousand dollars

200505-13

I waved my badge in front of the door, and walked out onto the trading floor

200505-14

We call it short-term trading from the longer term charts

200505-15

I could figure out a way to take the carry trade on a retail platform

200505-16

A week ago I had decided that I was the worst trader in the world

200505-17

The purpose of the carry trade is to earn interest at a very low risk

200505-18

We made some good money from those trades

200505-19

The retail carry trade is an adulteration of the same type of trade done by hedge funds all over the world

200505-20

I have tried to get my hands on every currency trading book that I could find

200505-21

What we now know is that markets are efficient, but they are not perfectly efficient

200505-22

A trader's edge is their ability to deal with uncertainty at minimum risk

200505-23

His out-of-control fx trades ended up costing the bank a cool $691 million

200505-24

The big players in this group include prop desks (banks trading their own proprietary accounts), hedge funds, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and currency overlay managers (COMs)

200505-25

Casinos do not like winners and neither do FX brokers

200505-26

In times of volatility, changing the execution trade price post-fact after it had already been confirmed to customers earlier in the day

200505-27

The next thing that traders can do to gain back some of the lost ground is to keep detailed trading records

200505-28

Hedge fund managers have long made fun of the quant models, and often joke This is terrible!

200505-29

Traders entering FX from other capital markets quickly realize that trading currencies is a quite different beast altogether

200505-30

Finding the right currency pair to trade should be of utmost importance to all individual traders

200505-31

All traders should include bond and gold prices in their market monitors

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Trading can bring you independence. Trading currency has brought that to me, and I hope that it can do the same for you