Hooti's Journey

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Hooti, Dec 1, 2010.

  1. Hooti

    Hooti

    HW (homework) for class
    premarket econ reprt

    Bracket order 6:30
    tgt sell limit 1298.5
    buy stop 1297.5
    sell stop 1296.5
    tgt buy limit 1295.5

    buy stop triggered, but didn't go immediately to tgt, so I moved sell stop to BE.

    Stopped out BE 6:31:29

    .....about Brook's comments on 'trading to trade' versus 'being there to make money'. It didn't fit one other category I see I fit in.
    I see I have been willing to lose money because I was thinking it was part the price of learning. Definiately not just trading lazily or as a hobby or brain exercise only. I knew I wasn't there. I had in mind NoD's losing... wasn't it almost half her account? And many others have said they lost 15% or so in the process of figuring some things out. I was thinking that if that's the price, I would pay it. But I see that allowed my thinking and actions to be sloppy.

    Obvious better alternative thought:
    I'm here to make money while I'm learning.
    Very different mind-set.
     
    #201     Feb 3, 2011
  2. Redneck

    Redneck

    Hooti

    There is losing money… then there is wasting money

    Big ass difference


    We wasted money along our journey – please try not to do the same

    RN
     
    #202     Feb 3, 2011
  3. Hooti

    Hooti

    cleavage or nips?? Potential ledge-rdemain??

    OH wait, you explain how it works. Was distracted there for a second!
    I"ll backtest and also put it on my charts today.

    Al Brooks spent a lot of time figuring out 'measured moves' as S/R, and in my classes I think they use a lot of relational fib moves in addtion to obvious TL.
    So this is another or different way to get those pieces of information in....

    When you were talking about the pieces moving together, you were talking about more than confluence of informantion? Knowing which pieces... to pay attention to...
     
    #203     Feb 3, 2011
  4. Hooti

    Hooti

    Great point.
     
    #204     Feb 3, 2011
  5. ammo

    ammo

    nips,widest spots are where the most time was spent at a price,if the price was 30 and we moved to 20,the sellers would have profited,the buyers stuck,the remaining buyers would be sellers at the return to 30 so it would stall ,oversimplified but you get the gist
     
    #205     Feb 3, 2011
  6. ammo

    ammo

    eur usd nip
     
    #206     Feb 3, 2011
  7. ammo

    ammo

    es 1293-94 nip
     
    #207     Feb 3, 2011
  8. Hooti

    Hooti

    8:19 short at 1293.50
    stop 1296
    out -2.5

    Ahhh I see now what Brooks was saying when he predicted a '30 pt drop day' almost every day I watched him. Then it happened and atthe start he said that this could be it, but if it was he was sitting it out because he did not trade atypical days. Which sounded crazy to me. But today I left in a big stop expecting an atypical day....
    Loss or waste?? :)


    Ammo, I can put the study on a daily chart, but it seemed awkward on a five min chart. Is there a way to do that?
     
    #208     Feb 3, 2011
  9. ammo

    ammo

    heres a weekly es, notice 50% dotted line in center of channel
     
    #209     Feb 3, 2011
  10. ammo

    ammo

    heres the same chart reduced to 1 hour,same dotted line in center ,possible support, blue line is a ledge from a few days back ,lines up with dotted line,see the gappish action on the 2 longer es 1 day market profiles gap is noted in rectangle,notice its not fillled
     
    #210     Feb 3, 2011