that's why you never bet the farm
I haven't read that book, I was referring to "professional stock trading"
wow. This thread is about the worst trading books ever, don't know how you fit that one in there this book is about systems trading with some...
sums it up perfectly
why not just differentiate between speculation and gambling?
moving averages are great for getting the big picture of what is happening
you can try taking a tick or two at least when a trade has become favorable and then reverses...i.e breakeven + 1 tick
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just a small comment here...please set your breakeven trades to at least cover commish and maybe a tick in profit..
I don't know about ninja as I use buttontrader, but you should program in a trailing stop and just let the program close your position for you,...
as a fun exercise, could you put up some charts of both successfull and failed trades, to see if money management may help?
greed and attachment
S8 - that's what happens when you fail to take signals...
i've tested hammers via tradestation and they do show an edge...I'm not going to post the test results here but the results were very nice on...
kendo
the story is absolutely on point depending on how entrenched you are in your own culture you will see it one way or another
since '03... http://www.futuresource.com/charts/charts.jsp?s=SP&o=&a=W&z=610x300&d=medium&b=bar&st=
and how is your trading going?
stuck??? I don't know what charts you are looking at practically all the indexes have been in a major uptrend since beginning of 2004....
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