The Trouble With Scribbles

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by Buy1Sell2, Mar 30, 2015.

  1. I admire your perseverance. I especially like you mentioned Eddie. Oh, and I mentioned Thursday because it was pure chop and you people who really don't care how much your followers lose were encouraging trading.

    This is what Eddie had to say;

    Quote
    "I actually tried to play that range this morning. Got chopped up a bit though, although the final move made up for it! (Or at least it should have. I didn't catch anything like what I could have)

    Sequence was:
    waited for the break and a retrace, and then shorted/
    Stopped when it looked like it was going the wrong way.
    Soon after being stopped and looked to start dropping off so I got back in.
    Stopped again, and switched long, thinking we were heding back inside the reange.
    Stopped again and ftlipped short! This one could have potentially made a hell of a lot of points, but I covered my previous losses and a little bit extra."
    End Quote.

    So, you have a loyal follower and this is what he experienced on Thursday because you preach long, close, now short, stopped, ok long again. How do I know this? I read the PDF in its entirety, and if you include the appendices, it's about 50% more than the 44 pages you tout. Of course you could simply be telling people the appendices are a waste of time.

    But all this is useless. Consider your last post. I asked for a simple post linking to your call for direction, and your trade. You have responded with obfuscation. Can you or any of you loyal followers point to where exactly in your response you provided the answers I asked for?
     
    #631     Apr 18, 2015
  2. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Apparently you didn't read it in its entirety.

    When one is stopped out on the long side and also on the short side, or vice-versa, he stops. Most people don't. That's not the fault of the SLA.

    So in answer to your question about trading chop, I don't, not when the above conditions are met.
     
    #632     Apr 18, 2015
  3. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Apparently you didn't read it in its entirety.

    When one is stopped out on the long side and also on the short side, or vice-versa, he stops. Most people don't. That's not the fault of the SLA.

    So in answer to your question about trading chop, I don't, not when the above conditions are met.
     
    #633     Apr 18, 2015
  4. Yes, you have consistently said I told you so.

    Here you said you don't trade a situation.

    Do you actually trade?
     
    #634     Apr 18, 2015
  5. If a meal is put on the table and I don't eat it, do I stop feeling hungry?
     
    #635     Apr 18, 2015
  6. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    You asked about trading chop. I provided what guidance the SLA offers with regard to trading chop. I follow that guidance and don't trade it. That's about as clear as I can make it.
     
    #636     Apr 18, 2015
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  7. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Since you missed the trade, apparently not. So why not plan for tomorrow's open and feed that hunger in a responsible way?
     
    #637     Apr 18, 2015
  8. Please, on a weekend can you be a decent human being,and accept the inevitable?

    40D was crowing about an NQ move to ??19? and you were praising it.
     
    #638     Apr 18, 2015
  9. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Wow. A move to 19 would be something.
     
    #639     Apr 18, 2015
  10. k p

    k p

    Db, on the surface you demonstrate an incredible amount of knowledge about the market. In a general sense, you are much smarter than I will ever be. But this doesn't translate into an ability to demonstrate how one actually trades, IN REAL TIME. I won't fight with the guys who suggest that you need to say which way price is going because I know you're not forecasting what will happen when price approaches an important level. It might reverse, or it might penetrate, and I can accept that. But without the ability to place a trade, in real time, and be right more often than wrong, a deep understanding of the market doesn't really help. Your charts do an incredible job of showing what happened, after the fact. When its obvious what's happening, the trade is already gone.

    What we seek here is evidence or at least a demonstration of trading ability, not ability to describe or explain a market. I'm not saying you can't personally trade as I have no evidence of that, but I also don't have any evidence of your ability to trade as there isn't the slightest hint of what you are doing until way after the fact.
     
    #640     Apr 18, 2015
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