Recent Content by Uncle Festus

  1. Best Blogs?

    These 3 are very good also: http://www.traderfeed.blogspot.com/ http://www.slopeofhope.com/ http://tradermike.net/ -Festus
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Jul 18, 2008 in forum: Educational Resources

  2. Tweezer Bottom on the $VIX?

    http://stockcharts.com/charts/gallery.html?$VIX -Festus
    Thread by: Uncle Festus, Apr 24, 2008, 0 replies, in forum: Trading

  3. Head for the Hills - Bear Stearns funds worthless-Bear Market/Crash is here and now!!

    Great call by Hamilton.:eek:
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Jul 18, 2007 in forum: Trading

  4. Daytrading 1999-2000

    My favorite was Emulex (ELX now). It was a 10 bagger in 1999 alone. Closed at 112.50 on 12/31/99 (went up 44% just in 12/99). I loaded up the...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, May 29, 2007 in forum: Trading

  5. DJ, SP and RL projections for end of May

    So you think its going to go down almost 6% in 6 trading days when its in an uptrend? Don't like those odds.
    Post by: Uncle Festus, May 21, 2007 in forum: Trading

  6. Markets need to correct

    Actually the relationship of bottoms/greater than 50% bearishness based on the AAII survey has been accurate for the past 20 years, not just the...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, May 4, 2007 in forum: Trading

  7. Markets need to correct

    I'm not sure how accurate this last statement is based on the latest AAII investor sentiment readings...I've never seen the bearish number over...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, May 4, 2007 in forum: Trading

  8. Can you all feel the tension ??

    Are you saying I should short myself? :confused: :D
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Dec 18, 2006 in forum: Trading

  9. are there any CANSLIM traders here?

    Always lurking. My trading's kind of evolved similar to yours in that I focus more on futures. What a strange long trip its been...best of luck.
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Jul 22, 2004 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. are there any CANSLIM traders here?

    Hey, db...are you the same db phoenix who used to be on the Motley Fool boards and traded mostly CANSLIM and had "db's burrow"? Your writing...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Jul 22, 2004 in forum: Strategy Building

  11. "Close position" hot key for IB?

    I use this all the time (it helps to prevent confusion about position size and direction). I've got "X" set up as a hot key to close position....
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Dec 20, 2002 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. Ugh!! Get me out of this bad losing streak

    Usually when I do this I miss the big run...losses are just a part of trading if you have a good system.
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Dec 5, 2002 in forum: Trading

  13. Ugh!! Get me out of this bad losing streak

    I hear ya'...I'm 1 for 11 in my last 11 trades and my main system is swing system. Through it I've been backtesting my system more to get comfort...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Dec 5, 2002 in forum: Trading

  14. Discipline

    Isn't it funny how even if you're 95% disciplined, the 5% of the time you're not destroys much more than 5% of your gains! It must be some...
    Post by: Uncle Festus, Dec 3, 2002 in forum: Psychology