Non-IT News Thread
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Tony Robbins... unleash the stupid.
Motivation seminar with 7,000 people? Really? ... Should change my career, tell some BS on a stage and get rich soon...
It's some serious insanity there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Tony Robbins... unleash the stupid.
Motivation seminar with 7,000 people? Really? ... Should change my career, tell some BS on a stage and get rich soon...
It's some serious insanity there.
Yeah, already heard that. Therapists for everyone, mass motivational seminars... Just need to remember to tell my kids (don't have any yet) to become something serious, like lawyer, therapist or politican.
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Tony Robbins... unleash the stupid.
Motivation seminar with 7,000 people? Really? ... Should change my career, tell some BS on a stage and get rich soon...
It's some serious insanity there.
Yeah, already heard that. Therapists for everyone, mass motivational seminars... Just need to remember to tell my kids (don't have any yet) to become something serious, like lawyer, therapist or politican.
And most importantly... don't leave Germany!
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Better not. Greenland could be an option, building igloos with the Inuits...
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Erm, no, not an option: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/groenland-sejler-politikerne-tier
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
Better not. Greenland could be an option, building igloos with the Inuits...
THey left the EU long ago. No good.
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Pound hits new all time low at $1.31. London markets have been temporarily suspended via automatic break mechanisms designed to slow a market crash.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Pound hits new all time low at $1.31. London markets have been temporarily suspended via automatic break mechanisms designed to slow a market crash.
The funny thing is, that by suspending the market they are often hurting themselves more than benefiting.
Doing that just causes more panic as the uber-rich say "give me everything" when the market reopens.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Pound hits new all time low at $1.31. London markets have been temporarily suspended via automatic break mechanisms designed to slow a market crash.
The funny thing is, that by suspending the market they are often hurting themselves more than benefiting.
Doing that just causes more panic as the uber-rich say "give me everything" when the market reopens.
Then they just suspend it again. The real punishment comes from the market being unable to make money. Stopping losses also stops gains. The markets are huge money makers. Turning them off turns off much of the economy.
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http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
I might be able to afford a visit
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/00/38/10/003810ad19e8eab7754106736ec03644.jpg
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I'm glad to see that travel is going to be cheap for a while.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
So I should probably refrain from any small scale currency speculation? For a moment, it almost seemed like a good idea to buy a hundred pounds for 136 bucks.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
So I should probably refrain from any small scale currency speculation? For a moment, it almost seemed like a good idea to buy a hundred pounds for 136 bucks.
Over/Under is running about 20 bucks so you'd lose any gains in the fees
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
So I should probably refrain from any small scale currency speculation? For a moment, it almost seemed like a good idea to buy a hundred pounds for 136 bucks.
Small scale is never good nor is holding currency. FX Trading is done at insane scale and very rapidly (many times per day.) The idea of holding any currency or trading through cash exchange channels is a sure loss.
Holding currency means that you fight inflation and pay massive overheads on the exchange for things that move very little. FX traders work in sub-second trades with big leverage (like 10,000% loans) to get enough volume to make it work.
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@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
So I should probably refrain from any small scale currency speculation? For a moment, it almost seemed like a good idea to buy a hundred pounds for 136 bucks.
Over/Under is running about 20 bucks so you'd lose any gains in the fees
Exactly. Basically $10,000 is the minimum buy for an FX speculation and the maximum hold is 48 hours. If you try to drop below $10 or hold longer than two days... you are screwed.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/british-pound.html
Sterling Futures are a bit bleak.
So I should probably refrain from any small scale currency speculation? For a moment, it almost seemed like a good idea to buy a hundred pounds for 136 bucks.
Over/Under is running about 20 bucks so you'd lose any gains in the fees
Exactly. Basically $10,000 is the minimum buy for an FX speculation and the maximum hold is 48 hours. If you try to drop below $10 or hold longer than two days... you are screwed.
Or playing the long con
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If I was to do casual FX trading at home, I'd likely be working with $100K or more and hopefully trading more than once per hour, for example.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
If I was to do casual FX trading at home, I'd likely be working with $100K or more and hopefully trading more than once per hour, for example.
$100k is not a casual anything.
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I spent most of my 30s as the top FX trade technologist in the game (architecture) running the biggest FX trading organization in the world which had as a client... the US Fed, for example. So this is my bread and butter.
