Recent Content by cfd_trader

  1. Algorithmic Peak detector

    frostengine, at this point I'm just planning for the backtest of that apparently successful setup, therefore I don't need to be picky on the...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Jun 28, 2011 in forum: Technical Analysis

  2. Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?

    Markets ain't random. At least, not all the time. To begin with, markets do have "memory". Well, if anything it's the memory of eg all these...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Jun 28, 2011 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  3. Algorithmic Peak detector

    I've been using for the last few weeks a fairly known setup/system which I have slightly modified to fit my requirements (intraday - as in intra...
    Thread by: cfd_trader, Jun 28, 2011, 3 replies, in forum: Technical Analysis

  4. We have topped...

    I beg to differ. If he's consistently posting badly losing trades, I will happily take the other side of each of those trades. More than...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Nov 6, 2010 in forum: Trading

  5. The Most Underestimated Risk In Trading

    Well, sometime the other guy's excessive greed can be your gain. :) That is, unless their account size is a thousand times yours, in which...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: Trading

  6. The Most Underestimated Risk In Trading

    Well I guess the discussion is drifting away from the original OP intent and extending in scope, not that it's bad by any means... :) There are...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: Trading

  7. The Most Underestimated Risk In Trading

    I understand and in fact agree with your note of caution. However in my case the scale at which this has happened in the recent past largely...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: Trading

  8. The 3 most important items to keep track of in yr trading log?

    HowardCohodas, or maybe I just speculated a touch on what you wrote. :-] Allright gals and boyz, c'mon... there MUST be more to it than this....
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: Trading

  9. The Most Underestimated Risk In Trading

    The missed opportunity risk: you "see" a good setup, but you don't take the trade because you lack confidence and/or you screwed the last trade...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: Trading

  10. The 3 most important items to keep track of in yr trading log?

    tiddlywinks, what you call "drawdown" and "unrealized reward" (I think you mean on a per trade basis) is what I refer to as "MAE" and "MFE", which...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 9, 2010 in forum: Trading

  11. The 3 most important items to keep track of in yr trading log?

    HowardCohodas, when you said " Even when I do nothing, I may note some concerns and areas to monitor ", I thought you meant that you do record...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 9, 2010 in forum: Trading

  12. How do you follow the news during and after the trading day?

    Te laisse pas faire, Laissez Faire... :p I live in Paris and have CNBC use one 1/4 of the screen on my 2nd monitor, running the whole trading...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 9, 2010 in forum: Trading

  13. The 3 most important items to keep track of in yr trading log?

    Allright, this is what I'd call a "vanilla" trade log/journal - though I'm not familiar with credit spreads trading and might therefore be missing...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 9, 2010 in forum: Trading

  14. The 3 most important items to keep track of in yr trading log?

    Thanx for the detailed answer HowardCohodas. :) I do agree that keeping notes of why you took a specific trade at a specific moment in time is...
    Post by: cfd_trader, Oct 9, 2010 in forum: Trading