Recent content by David Hume

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

Joe Doaks did not drop out, he dropped dead. The ultimate health issue. Cause of death was apoplexy. Slumped face down on his keyboard. With an ET thread up on the screen.

Thank you for the affirmation! I do so love it when other people don't see what I see! I am guessing that your orrery is Copernican. Mine is Ptolemaic.

We may be looking at different instruments because what I trade moves like clockwork, albeit a cuckoo clock, or more properly an orrery made of sharp knives.

Jprad, add to your cosmology events in parallel universes where options, futures, and futures options on other instruments cause ephemeral market order haints and boojums to appear in your own universe. These can have nothing whatever to do with current price action where you stand.

The T&S you see is based on an algorithm to match the book against trades. For latency and other reasons (like a big trade going "upstairs"), T&S is highly unreliable as to whether a particular trade was at the bid or ask, or as to what either of those even were at the time of the trade. This is...

The depth of either side of the inside market does not constitute volume. Lifting of the bid or ask merely confirms my point that price may lead volume.

My apologies for the intrusion, Thunderdog, but the egregious stupidity of the alleged PV relation causes me to spew bile-laden spittle on my volume-less trading screen whenever it's proponents rear their peckerheads. I am embarrassed at how much time I spent first trying to prove it, then to...

I never cease to be amazed on ET at the persistence of Aristotelianism in a Cartesian age. The usefulness of volume is for ET's Aristotelians a matter of dogma they will not abandon even with the clearest counter proofs. The most casual observation of a one-second chart distinguishing volume at...

I quite agree. Abstrusity should be employed abstemiously. To much leads only to extreme abulia, as we have seen quite embarrassingly recently on certain sub-culture threads here.

PMA, I was serious in my offer. Suppose I offered to teach you a system that had 100% win rate, guaranteed $15.20 every time you took it, offered opportunities a few times a day, but wasn't scalable. Would you pay me for it? Most of ET would not, because it isn't tapping into the supposedly vast...

Best of luck on your course. Kindly fire off a flare when you go live. Your results will be enlightening to us all.

You are very welcome. Knowing that, I will spend some time sampling your posts from the beginning. I am interested because you are following a very different path than I did to learn to trade. That is not a criticism, just an observation. For example, before I made a large investment in...

Thank you for your kind remarks, PMA. But ET finds no humor in trading. They keep trying to pretend that this is a serious site. Despite massively unintended humor in the majority of posts. So fuck 'em. They've lost me again. If I were you, I would seek professional help for your warped sense of...

What does a guy have to do to be taken seriously by ET? I posted a blotter. I explained the entry and exit methodologies. I withdraw my offer. Your loss, ET.