Icarus, one can read Lewis Carroll over and over and those words become familiar, too. And make about as much sense. I, too, have a binder. Filled...
BSAM, perhaps it my own bizarre trading style, but more than simply predicting, I am absolutely certain that every trade I put on will be a...
PM nwbprop for the Cliff's Notes version. He started a Grob109 thread that is a classic. He banged away for months on just one trading tactic. It...
Sparkys especially are attracted to trading. It looks like it's amenable to all our fancy analyses. The linear systems fallacy.
FuturesTrader71, to the best of my knowledge, Grob109 rephrases stock ideas from the post-Depression efflorescence of technical analysis....
"I don't do predictions, my focus is on holdng and reversing stuff." Excuse me, but every position taken constitutes a prediction. Otherwise...
Depends on the time of day and the volume. In the morning, with high volume, MMs let the crowd take the market where they will, and content...
You're hopeless. My point is that you and everybody else influence the market to go against you JUST BY TAKING A POSITION. Bye.
"I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!" Obviously looks are more important than acumen.
Get yourself a three sided coin. Markets go sideways. That'll skew your "stats" a little. Also observe how often the market retraces to just past...
I am encouraged by Grob109 that one can be a great trader without being able to spell. I am always getting into trouble trading UL when I meant to...
No. PRESCRIBE. Tell an anorexic to gag herself every 15 minutes. A compulsive eater to drink a milkshake every half hour. Warring couples to spit...
Prescribe the symptom. Tell them to DO it 100 times. It works.
Oil through the roof? We haven't seen demand declines kick in yet. I carpooled and sat in gas lines in the Northeast during the embargo in '73....
Alas, I fear that gold must fall further relative to the dollar. Almost time to buy more. Using dollars, of course. Now oil is a different matter....
Yeah. I measure everything in oil and in gold. Even oil and gold. Sometimes is enlightening, sometimes not.
I just invented that yesterday because I couldn't figure out why sometimes indices respond with oil and sometimes opposite to it. So it has...
I watch the ratio of index price to oil, for asset balance, and the product of index price and oil, for the presumed reciprocal relationship. When...
Also, the indices are overpriced relative to the new international currency, oil.
Runningbear: .A solid reference to that is "The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies" by Katz and McCormick. :Al
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