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Soultrader

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  4. Posted

    I apologize for the delay. My wife gave birth yesterday to a baby girl so have been busy and away recently. TL has switched ownership and a new team has been in effective since late April.

     

    TL has been one of the greatest and most valuable experiences for me. I have the utmost respect for the TL community and believe it has done a tremendous job providing value to the trading community. Running TL alone, I have had my limitations mainly due to time restraints from trading and other business endeavors, TL deserves a proper dedicated team that can preserve the community and also take the site to the next level. I believe the current new team are the right one for this task.

     

    I thank you all for years of support. We have many leaders here on TL which I am very happy to see and do wish the best to everyone in their trading endeavors, Although I will be stepping down from community management, I plan to be a more active member now that I wont be receiving admin privileges :)

     

    Regards,

     

    James Lee

    Founder of TradersLaboratory.com

  5. Posted

    In order to overcome this, a buddy of mine trades 1 semi-automated strategy on a daily basis. This has allowed him to trade without emotions. My first year I went through the same mistake of having my emotions take over my actions. To overcome this, I spent alot of time reflecting on my own personality and discovering many bad habits that I possessed. From then it was a gradual process of fixing these traits and also admitting to them.

     

    Having a sound strategy that you are confident with will eliminate the necessity to place trades that do not fit your style. Having a solid trading plan will also assist in this process. Perhaps you may want to take a step back and paper trade for some time to build back your confidence as well as discover strategies that you would want to take. Eliminate the noise. Hope this helps.

  6. Posted

    A = Actual trading (watching the DOM, entering orders, etc..)

    B = Trading methods review, review of the day’s trading, record keeping, etc..

    C = Researching new methods, reading books, reading TL for new trading ideas

    My numbers are as follows:

     

    A - 12 hours

    B - 3 hours

    C - 0.5 hours

     

    A and B are overlapping since I am watching the markets during Asian hours all the way to US morning while reviewing stuff throughout the day. C is something I have cut drastically over the past year. I have stopped learning new or other peoples method but instead sharpening my own.

  8. Posted

    Anyone in the domain trading business? It's been my recent hobby collecting unique domain names. About $8 or so to register a .com and usually goes for multiples of it. My first sale recently netted 25x my initial investment. Just took part in a local auction and bought http://www.mobilenews.jp for about $300. Obviously looking to flip this domain a for a few thousand or more preferably to mobile related businesses in Japan.

     

    Anyone have any experience with this?

  15. Posted

    You've exposed my inexperience.

    How does the Soybeans pit relate to the non-pit contract? I haven't gotten around to learning the differences.

     

    Pit covers different session times. They are traded on the floor instead of Globex which is traded electronically.

     

    Pit session is from 9:30am to 13:15pm Chicago time.

     

    Also note that the electronic contract has not been around longer than the pit. So the pit carries more historical data. More info: Soybeans (pit also known as open outcry)

     

    Ive been informed that Soybeans on Globex was launched on January 13, 2008.

  19. Posted

    Korea is definitely a long shot although the exchanges and FCM's are now working on attractive international clients. KRX guys did seem a little arrogant though.

     

    HK would be interesting as they also list Chinese companies. I do think that capital gains tax laws will be a key factor for firms entering these countries. Infrastructure as well and the social factors that would allow ex-pats to live and adjust easily. Singapore seems to be one of the most friendliest nations in Asia for foreigners. Its just that the market is still small.

  20. Posted

    After returning from FIA Singapore, one of the hottest topics discussed was the next Asian financial hub. Tokyo is gradually losing its position due to the political uncertainty, financial regulatory inflexibility, and too expensive to do business in Tokyo. Add the fact that Japan lacks english speaking ability.

     

    China does not currently have a futures market either and Asia's fixed income market is rather immature compared to the west. Where do you think the next Asian financial center will be? Please cast your votes and let us know what you think.

  22. Posted

    For traders looking to trade the Asian markets, Kospi futures is perhaps one of the most exciting contracts to trade. Highly liquid and volatile enough to keep the average day trader interested.

     

    Here is a snapshot of the DOM in action:

     

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    And here is a snapshot of a 5 minute chart.

     

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    For those interested, we also have a thread dedicated to Kospi futures. This can be found here.

     

    Which broker has access to Kospi?

     

    There are not many brokers that offer the Kospi contract. Ideally, traders would want to access a broker locally in Korea. As all Korean securities firms are also FCM's, this means that there is no middleman to pass your orders through. This eliminates any unnecessary commission costs. Due to the high demand and inquiry for Asian products, we have partnered with NH Futures, a local Korean FCM that provides excellent english speaking support and top of the line trading tools from CQG. In fact CQG Trader is offered for free.

     

    Our aim is to provide TL! traders with access to quality brokers whom we trust and respect. Traders deserve the best service, support, competitive commission rates, and tools. To learn more about NH Futures, please visit this page here: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/nhfutures/

     

     

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  23. Posted

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  24. Posted

    This probably wont apply for you, but the real estate regulations in Japan are the following:

     

    Proof of income is required. If your rent exceeds over around 30% of your annual income, you will most likely get rejected. In order to move in first months rent is required. In addition they have whats called "shiki kin" and "rei kin" which is the biggest bs system in the world. "Shiki kin" and "rei kin" usually take up another 4 months rent. So moving anywhere requires a 5 - 6 month deposit which is non refundable. I shed almost $20k a few months ago just to move into my new apartment.

     

    What interested me when I was in London though was that you could rent on a weekly basis. Since my last name is "Lee" (non Japanese) I had to get insured by a insurance company just to rent. Talk about discrimination despite being Japanese. :angry:

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