It's a misleading analogy. Left unsaid is that you're driving a car with an opaque windshield. So why rag on TA for only providing you with a...
I'm curious. In this driving analogy of yours, what method is "the windshield" that lets you see "the road ahead" (aka the future)?
You're confused and mixing apples and oranges My reply to you was in response to your response to me regarding my reply to the OP. It is the OP,...
How do you assign a trend (a direction) when you're in chop (a directionless market)?
That looks like a recipe for trading the chop. Which still doesn't answer the question: how to avoid chop. What hasn't been pointed out...
"How do you avoid choppy markets?" A worthy question. But one not easily answered, for two reasons. Most of the answers you've received so far...
You're farther along than I thought just going by your first post. What category does your trading strategy fall under? Trend following?...
For sure. The OP should just buy one of Cramer's books. He's written two of them, and I'm sure he's egotistical enough to have put his history as...
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• go to finance.yahoo.com • enter stock symbol into search bar and go to stock page • click on Historical Prices in left column • enter...
Gloria Brown : ET's biggest panhandler for trading strategies....
There are different types of trading and many of them don't "mesh". For example, the market conditions that facilitate trend following are very...
"The real problems of trading are with discipline and execution." I can only assume your trading "system" is a discretionary trading method....
Position trading has always been more profitable than daytrading. Daytraders don't see this. Daytraders are greedy ("I want it now!") and greed...
As others have pointed out, your conclusion about TA is way premature. Based on what you've listed, you haven't even covered the tip of the...
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Never let a trade turn into an investment. -- James Cramer
Investors and traders follow different rules. Among other things, investors base decisions on FA. Traders rarely do that. I don't often agree...
Speaking only for myself, I have found value in only two canned indicators that shall remain nameless. One can be used as is. The other one...
What have you been studying for months that you don't already know this? Get familiar with investopedia.com, they define a great many trading...
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