Why Can't I Trade with the Trend

Discussion in 'Strategy Building' started by Flashboy, Mar 10, 2005.

  1. What I am saying is that if one knows WHEN the price will be on reversal level, then one does not have to know WHAT that price will be , price is not important .
     
    #311     Mar 14, 2005
  2. 'But I dont see any entries or exits on it.
     
    #312     Mar 14, 2005

  3. sorry, only 2 hands. I'm a nasty imaginary trend trader. Trades in direction of trend. Those HL are support failures into the trend. Pull your own trigger.
     
    #313     Mar 14, 2005
  4. What harm is there is posting your entries after the fact? Have you made any trades this morniing? I shorted ym at 10814 at 9:59:57and took a two tick loss then went long at 10817 at 10:31:29 and was stopped out on a trailing stop at 10822. See. its easy. Im just trying to get some idea of where your coming from.
     
    #314     Mar 14, 2005
  5. Quite right. There are much better ways to make money than working for it.

    I granted this to myself one afternoon after three days with no sleep immersed in the work of Fourier and painting continuous functions without a brush. The market was the obvious choice.
     
    #315     Mar 14, 2005

  6. I didn't take any trades this morning. I had 2 student calls this morning. Right now I'm watching the 1209.75 top. If it fails to breach I'll short to challenge 1202.50. If it breaches, I wait till the failure of support to go long. I trade to profit, not trade to trade.
     
    #316     Mar 14, 2005
  7. I'm chewing on it. thanks.
     
    #317     Mar 14, 2005
  8. Thank you. At what point would you consider it a failure to breach? We just had a LH. Both of my trades were from signals too, by the way.
     
    #318     Mar 14, 2005

  9. Well said. Took me years to learn that. :D
     
    #319     Mar 14, 2005
  10. If a "trend" does not extend over a minimum range of price, then it can't be distinguished from background noise.
     
    #320     Mar 14, 2005