Hi Spike, I just read (and found out) about your posts last night... (I went back to those few who gave me good advice in the past.) I have...
Thanks for all the free professional advices for the retail guys like me. :(
I take back what I said about Hubert.
I just want to say I tested one of Hubert's squeeze play a long time ago and it is not profitable. He seems to be a nice guy and good teacher (I...
How so? :confused:
Hi Flash, I ask a lot of these questions in my head. I used to tell myself like every books that I don't gamble, I follow my rules and grind...
Hi emini, I took a short this early morning 1305 and played the gap fill exited at 1302.75. It was a good entry with everything was lined up...
I read a thread here about trading a roth IRA being a grey area... Anyway the emini future tax treatment is 60% long term capital gain and 40%...
Hi emini, I used a lot of symmetry, trend lines, etc. When my setup is right, it will not go against me for more than a point... yes 1 ES...
Hi emini Me three. I am a knife catcher and not ashamed. I bet you did real well last month (some crazy percentage much better than most...
I remember the impression reading something about putting the drive in the freezer can help reading the data??? If the data is really important,...
I use vanilla fixed fractional size... everytime I try variable size, it got me into trouble over time. My concept of time is what I got from...
Also, TS simulation doesn't allow you to test trade-thru entry (bid-ask spread). You can try to get around it but the result is still not...
Willingness to accept risk (and loss) = ability to make money is inversely proportionate to the pain inflicted upon oneself. Keep persepective...
The profit factor can go a lot higher in discretionary trading. Automating 1.2-ish might be tough in real life. :(
Garbage in. Garbge out.
Do trader A and B use the same leverage? Then trader B can "theoretically" increase his leverage. I also suspected that trader A and B is the...
Very true. One thing the book "Reminicences of a Stock Operator" taught me (another story too painful to tell...) is when you "know" it, you got...
There 2 situations I like to get mentally prepared: 1) Stop loss by a tick and then market shots up to my profit target. 2) Market misses my...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62006 With this simple study, I don't need to trade the whole day for my type of setup...
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