Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

Discussion in 'Risk Management' started by nysestocks, Jan 25, 2009.

  1. 1.)If you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foe with a balanced attack.

    2.)To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.

    3.)He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.

    4.)Until you learn to master your rage, your rage will become your master.


    -"The Sphinx", Mystery Men, 1999
     
    #531     Apr 8, 2009
  2. Oh, how the golden ratio beckons us with its siren call...
     
    #532     Apr 8, 2009
  3. Boib

    Boib

    No Sir I’m afraid I didn’t. I had no idea where the stock would go on Monday.
    My thinking was that if it got to my entry it would continue to advance.

    My entry was not hit so I have no position. I am not losing money only opportunity to make money.

    This is hard to answer as I’m not short. However I had assumed a certain amount of risk and my usual mode of operation is to stay with the trade until it is no longer working. That is it fails to make a new swing high or makes a lower swing low.
    22.5 was a stop and it was chosen as it is below the last swing low.
    I live in a state of confusion. I try and keep an open mind. I must never stop learning.
     
    #533     Apr 8, 2009
  4. those pdfs are pretty funny.
     
    #534     Apr 8, 2009
  5. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest

    Did you see the hidden messages - one person has already seen them:D

    The funny part, is that it is all TRUE:eek:
     
    #535     Apr 8, 2009
  6. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest


    7. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times
    and seasons.

    8. Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger
    and security; open ground and narrow passes; the
    chances of life and death.

    9. The Commander stands for the virtues of
    wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.

    10. By method and discipline are to be understood the
    marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the
    graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance
    of roads by which supplies may reach the army,
    and the c.o.n.t.r.ol:D of military expenditure.

    11. These five heads should be familiar to every general:
    he who knows them will be victorious; he who
    knows them not will fail.
     
    #536     Apr 8, 2009
  7. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest

    It gets even better:D

    12. Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to
    determine the military conditions, let them be made the
    basis of a comparison, in this wise:—

    13. (1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the
    Moral law?
    (2) Which of the two generals has most ability?
    (3) With whom lie the advantages derived from
    Heaven and Earth?
    (4) On which side is discipline most rigorously
    enforced?
    (5) Which army is stronger?
    (6) On which side are officers and men more highly
    trained?
    :D
    (7) In which army is there the greater
    constancy both in reward and punishment?


    14. By means of these seven considerations I can forecast
    victory or defeat.
     
    #537     Apr 8, 2009
  8. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest

    Now for some serious words!

    Opening your eyes will not win the battle!

    The battle will only be won when you "open your mind"!
     
    #538     Apr 8, 2009
  9. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest

    I had to post this one:D

    22. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate
    him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
     
    #539     Apr 8, 2009
  10. nysestocks

    nysestocks Guest

    And back to the serious again!

    26. Now the general who wins a battle makes
    many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought.
    The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations
    beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to
    victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more
    no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that
    I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.
     
    #540     Apr 8, 2009