Sports betting is trading, not a game For what it's worth, I think that no game at all is anything remotely like trading.
I guess no one here has ever played the boardgame Stock Ticker, some relic of a game from the 50s where you buy and sell gold, bonds, stocks, etc. all on a roll of the dice. maybe that was too obvious though..
there is no doubt that any style of intraday trading requires full attention. so if you keep telling in almost every post you make that you are in the market ALL the time EVERY day with futures AND trade/watch the stock market - how come you have the time to come here during RTH so often and make so many long posts.....??
Jaime, I used to play Stock Ticker as a kid with my Grandfather. It's what actually sparked my initial interest in the markets. I even still have the original game and box... B
Trading baseball cards when your a kid or still some adults. Your makeing judgments of the value of a certain player and risking your own value of cards to make trades. This is analogous to picking what stocks to hold and what stocks to trade.
Currently I'm using dragon 9 most of the time and I actually do not post here except to generate draft copy for the books under way and to meet other prep I am doing for other purposes. The dragon is not very good for finished copy and there are some missing letters that are caused by the computer leaving them out as something is perking around inside. I say things like: scratch that and new paragraph and punctuation and quote and unquote. I had to tyep that sentence for obvious reasons. There is nothing to think up ,etc.. As for the trading and time spent being in the market, PVT is a multi day thing and occasionally there are back up illustrations on a given day that support my snags of the screens. There are 30 of them (PVT batting order and entries and exits) for a recent day, for example. And the SCT is 20 to 40 actions a day and as you say it requires watching most of the time. sometimes there are videos and they probably would show some attention to business. I am kinda weak on my response in this area. Full attention is a opic that I am not able to go back and forth with you. If i were stabilizing someone as part of a team, I could say things. The market is a sports memory thing for me and you do not know what any of that means at all. It is out of the box so I can't get down with you on this. A person has performance as a consequence of being where he is. It is a foreign place to you from what you post to me. So that is it. Generally, I am not on the phone, nor do I have outside things to attend to. Probably it is best to wait and see the year (2007) unfold. If the climate at ET changes, and if I were allowed to make references to other locations, then it might look different. generally if I am active in trading focused stuff, the posts would be very frequent and have snag its, etc.. In the past, the concurrent type of posting made it a royal battleground that defeated being able to get points across on real time market stuff. I am a fringe type person in my kind of and way of doing stuff; the mold you have put me in may not be one that is appropriate. I keep a schedule that during part of the day, there is 6 1/2 hours of market time; the other half of the day is up for grabs. If I pick something to add an attachment to it it is not time bound to any particular response time or start time. It is pretty clear that if I am doing something that is good to show a sequence of comments and illustrations relatedto something unfolding that that has been done on occasion. look at the trolls who post in relation to me. i don't deal with that or I just put a bunch of responsesto gether, lebel them and go down an organized repsonse that kills three birds with 10 principles in an adroit manner. I read a homeowrk assignment on water something today. for a second I felt like dictating a 20 pager as a warm up drill. the paper s an unsatisfactory and it would have been fun to do a piece to replace it. I also shopped today and wnet to two book stores. So now I have a little less than 20 new books to read. Think of me as a little different and try to get the idea that what I post is not for you or any of what you are concerned with. It is just a different place where I live than where you live and are doing your thing. You measure me by something that is very good for you to be doing and have on your mind. That is it. It helps you to be you.
Yes! My friend's Dad passed down his card collection and advised him to trade almost all of the current year's cards for the top 5 rookie prospects that year. He has multiple rookie cards for the 50's through 80's of all the greats, and the collection was recently assessed around several hundred thousand. I mean, how many guys have 43 Barry Bonds mint rookie cards? I think this strategy is done, however. Too many cards have been produced the past twenty years. Sound familiar to any trend followers? The players change, the buyers change, the industry changes, and so it goes.