This post originally appeared in the Student Forum on www.NewTraderU.com. Thank you Salman for letting me share it with my blog readers. Guest Post by: Salman Merchant These are my two cents, and since I’m only a novice trader I can only speak from intuition: Since there are a great number of strategies and trade […]
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