An interview on complete futures trading systems. Stuart McPhee quizzes legendary trader Ray Barros. Ray Barros: Mark Douglas, the guy that taught me many things about trading said that irrespective of our personality, some traders may be subjective where they have set of rules but also have got intuition to play with. There are the fully mechanical who will follow our rules no matter what, and a discretionary who has no rules. That’s fine whatever suits, but the point Mark made was everybo

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