Recent Content by xtrhvydty

  1. Is The Bull Market Over?

    I'm a technical trader, so I wait for a high probability trade signal (80%+) based on historical testing and apply a position size according to...
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Jan 20, 2015 in forum: Trading

  2. What is the ultimate evolution of a trader?

    First I started with stocks. Breakouts, pullbacks, mean reversion. Then I got into complex option spreads for a couple years. Calendars, verts,...
    Thread by: xtrhvydty, Apr 25, 2009, 14 replies, in forum: Psychology

  3. How do you handle big draw-downs the next day?

    ps a good discretionary trader journal with excellent commentary may be found at: http://www.fattail.org/viewtopic.php?id=496
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Apr 5, 2009 in forum: Psychology

  4. How do you handle big draw-downs the next day?

    good questions - and they need to be incorporated into a business plan. Carter's "Mastering the Trade" is the only trading book I've seen where...
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Apr 5, 2009 in forum: Psychology

  5. Slumping economy is easiest time to get filthy rich

    of course there is no hope for the whining lifetime victims who live only to blame someone and bitch about how life is hard...
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Apr 5, 2009 in forum: Economics

  6. Slumping economy is easiest time to get filthy rich

    We are always on the lookout for a ideal trading opportunity, that is, one where a convergence of favorable conditions provide a high probability,...
    Thread by: xtrhvydty, Apr 5, 2009, 3 replies, in forum: Economics

  7. Why is IB's time 5 seconds behind the official time?

    http://www.exefind.com/clockdummy-P4629.html this keeps a visible updated clock on the taskbar. it's free just click on the download link
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Feb 26, 2009 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. Statistical backtesting of government stupidity

    -1992 Hurricane Andrew causes US greatest natural disaster. FEMA guidelines deemed horribly inadequate (I was there) and reform mandated by Fed...
    Thread by: xtrhvydty, Oct 8, 2008, 0 replies, in forum: Economics

  9. Competition for worst trading damage picture

    this was actually many moons before I had developed rigoruous trading discipline. I have a note taped to my screen: "Never a bad day if you follow...
    Post by: xtrhvydty, Sep 2, 2008 in forum: Trading

  10. Competition for worst trading damage picture

    here's mine...
    Thread by: xtrhvydty, Sep 2, 2008, 21 replies, in forum: Trading

  11. Raising money - what am I doing wrong?

    I made 18% thru April (64% annualized, sharpe 3.3, file att'd). Then I had a financial emergency and had to clean out my trading acct. I've been...
    Thread by: xtrhvydty, Aug 29, 2008, 20 replies, in forum: Professional Trading