THAT I agree with. Sometimes I quit after a few minutes and go shooting. Like today I quit at 6:33 PT. Otherwise I'd miss all the fat old ladies shooting before the soaps start.
Now you're just being an idiot. The end of M2 = FTT. I reverse at FTT's. It's unfortunate that you didn't.
I think you are doing great. It is also nice to have the counterpoint and the concurrence; it makes it possible for others to discern what is what for themselves. I will not be here every day but I will try to come and go as it is possible.
be sure to do that. It is amazing how the need for more instruments appears. i would luv to see about 80 to 85 rolling so the whole rotation of the Earth's money is shown. some of those exchange rules are really dippy but others are really ahead of the US.
You are most welcome here. Please consider this your permanent home on ET. Most of the rest of ET will thank you for it as I do, because you won't be hijacking their threads. Here, it's lojacking. Since you find it so odious to post comprehensibly, I shall endeavor to the worst of my ability to be your emanuensis, in all senses of the word, and post charts corresponding to what I divine to be your calls.
I know what you mean. When I wake up at 2AM when the continental markets are opening, I am sorely tempted to trade some of those nice moves in NQ. But I just pour a tall glass of champagne and go back to sleep.
For those of you who are unwisely tempted to trade all day by Jack's Conjoined Mind's siren song, I can share with you numerically numbrous distractions. For example, today Professor Doaks bought himself a .40 S&W pistola with the money he expects the rest of us to stay at home and make for him to piss away on frivolities. And since I was watching the market, he said, Al old buddy, why doncha work up a nominal reload and set up this die set that came in today and calibrate the powder throw, and make me three test rounds to compare to storeboughten? So I did, and boy is he ever going to get a shock when he lights off that first reload! The lazy prick is always lording it over us that without his coding we wouldn't be able to do diddly! I tell him, look at Jackie boy, Mr. Code Monkey, he can't code for shit but he got rich!
For me, the day is a summer like day and definitely a Friday. I saw about a 9 point range and I did an entry on open (short), ten reversals and an exit (to end a short) very near the bottom of the range. To do the 3 times range today with 11 completed cycles, it is neessary to make about 3 points a turn. This seems to be a cool thread in a very important forum. I can see that the ET system that notifies my most avid readers is working fairly swiftly. I hope more charts get put up. The strategy to design a system only depends upon four items: 1. Market principles, 2. The Pattern of the marketplace, 3. Tools. and 4. The trader's choice of routines. I see only three principles: 1. Taking all of the marketplace's offer. 2. The Pattern of the marketplace. 3. Processing information using the mathematics of the Market. Information comes out of the market and it has to be greatly enhanced. I feel that it comes to me with six degrees of freedom and I must expand it to about 70 degrees of freedom. Tools are used to do this improvement of information. I devised a way to look at only what is important at the time it is important. It is a "steer and focus" sort of approach. I use 6 to 8 degrees of freedom at any specific time. My choice of routines is to use MADA which stands for Monitor, Analyze, Decide and Act. This is in high contrast to OODA of John Boyd. My actual desigh strategy was simple. retrospectively. I did take some side trips to examine the history of the design and developments of markets and the actual considered understanding of how they work. I charted the events in trading history from the beginning to 1957. There were about 100 intellectual steps up to that time. The science and maths of figuring things out parallels the neuroscience of the mind. You cannot take the wrong path since you cannot erase stuff. It is not a good idea to work from a premise to do system design. The problem focesses on only one system which is how the market works. I do not mean the owner's rule set for operating a market. What I mean is the participant's behavioral pattern of participating in the market. One caveat: the markets are granular. Anyway, we will see. Calling the market here will show that anyone can operate just to the right of the Present to know how the future narrows, before the Present, down to just one possibility having 100% probability. This is NOT saying that any probability maths is used EVER. Time is NOT a variable in the markets. Had to get that off the table.
One of my brothers is into that stuff. He does QC for the Virginia State Police. The cheapest bid gets some funny stuff in boxes. He builds the standards against which the testing is done.