hmm.no edges in the markets

Discussion in 'Trading' started by chimera, Jul 16, 2013.

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    I personally trade with government dats reports, news releases and weekly fundamental inventory reports. I spend hours and hours and hours each night sifting thru that data, arranging it in assumed order of importance, jotting down notes and calling around to get a "feel" for what everyone else thinks. Then I watch CNBC around the clock until my eyes bleed and commercials are memorized word for verse. After that, every trade is pretty much just a summarized, wild-ass guess from the whole kit & caboodle there.

    Isn't that what all individual traders are supposed to do? It'd be nice if we could simply ignore all that, sit down at the charts whenever we begin our workday, and trade what we see as price-action guides us to where it intends to go :cool:
     
    #851     Aug 6, 2013
  2. TA makes sense for illustrative, descriptive use. I never said visual use-- I also agree it makes sense to use it for contextual purposes. But as a real time trading tool, it makes no sense.
     
    #852     Aug 6, 2013
  3. I'll say your profits are due to great trade/ money management. Not the entry.

    surf.
     
    #853     Aug 6, 2013
  4. dev

    dev

    *yawn*

    I can't play guitar very well at all.
    If you booked me to play live, you better bring plenty of tomatoes.

    It doesn't therefore follow, that all guitars are worthless shit, and all guitar players are just bullshitters.

    Surfer, you're incredibly boring on this TA thing. Seriously.
    To me, it just looks like you can't stop bitching about the stuff you can't do.

    The phrase 'sour grapes' springs to mind?
     
    #854     Aug 6, 2013
  5. those that know, aint sayin.

    they dont even sell it, too easy to steal.

    anything you see or read is guaranteed garbage.

    any even if it isnt , you're too dumb to tell the diff.
     
    #855     Aug 6, 2013
  6. Josef K

    Josef K

    And you have no grounds for making that statement.
     
    #856     Aug 6, 2013
  7. Uhhh, aren't you yourself a vendor of TA study materials, as discussed earlier in this thread? Am I missing something? :confused:
     
    #857     Aug 6, 2013
  8. sheda

    sheda

    The most efficient way in terms of time and capital to great profits are:

    Entry > Movement in your direction > Managment > Exit. Entry is vital on short time frames - it cant be argued against.
     
    #858     Aug 6, 2013
  9. NoDoji

    NoDoji

    You know, Austin, when I shared these advanced tactics with you a while back, you promised you'd never speak them aloud, especially in a public forum! I trusted you!

    :D
     
    #859     Aug 6, 2013
  10. bighog

    bighog Guest

    No one was supposed to reveal the "teaspoon" method for CL reports. :eek:
     
    #860     Aug 6, 2013