Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
I haven't posted a peer-reviewed economic treatise on BE regarding currency cross-rate fluctuations, so you seem to have taken that as license to talk down to me, knowing nothing of my education, background, or experience.
Based on your recent post history, that's not an infrequent tack for you on this forum.
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
I think rather you *assume* that I don't.
I haven't posted a peer-reviewed economic treatise on BE regarding currency cross-rate fluctuations, so you seem to have taken that as license to talk down to me, knowing nothing of my education, background, or experience.
Based on your recent post history, that's not an infrequent tack for you on this forum.
I haven't posted a peer-reviewed economic treatise on BE regarding currency cross-rate fluctuations, so you seem to have taken that as license to talk down to me, knowing nothing of my education, background, or experience.
Based on your recent post history, that's not an infrequent tack for you on this forum.
I keep trying to bring this back to OP's original post, which are about the risks of a non-professional trader using his retirement pot to speculate in the AUD/GBP currency markets.
You keep going off on AUD/CAD cross-rates, Canada-US trade links, China, and Trump, which have absolutely nothing to do with what OP was asking about.
I maintain it is a bad idea for a mature-aged novice trader to put their retirement savings into currency speculation. Other funds, that can be lost without life-changing effect, should be used to get involved in the market.
Your money - and OPs - are your responsibility. Not mine.
Last edited by carcajou; Apr 22nd 2020 at 2:37 am.
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
Recognition of British understatement seems to be a lost art in the Antipodes.
Last edited by abner; Apr 22nd 2020 at 2:52 am.
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
I have always maintained a contrarian stance that futures markets are less risky than stock markets but it requires extraordinary psychological discipline. It is not for everyone. Even the best traders lose money on 7 out of every 10 trades, but they know how to limit their losses and let the profitable trades ride. An old book, but a classic, from the 1980s called "Way of the Turtle" highlights this. I think some of the people they brought in off the street are actually still trading today.
If he is an experienced trader than would already know how risky it is to put the retirement pot into currency speculation - and if a successful currency trader, would have other funds at his disposal to use instead?
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
OP has posted extensively on his life. I don't recall anything about being a currency trader. In fact I recall (and this could be incorrect but I don't have time to go pouring through threads) he has been a stay-at-home father for some years. Nothing wrong with that but it puts the need for risk management in sharp focus.
So you simply know better than he does, about his own circumstances and potential decisions...?
Last edited by abner; Apr 22nd 2020 at 3:35 am.
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
What I've said is one million percent standard advice. I would question both the competence and the ethics of any professional financial advisor who said it was a good idea for a novice trader with little offsetting income to throw their retirement savings into currency speculation.
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Re: Any forex/currency geeks out there? (GBP/AUD)
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
(I one million percent believe you would.)
Last edited by abner; Apr 22nd 2020 at 5:02 am.