Recent content by longtex

2051 While looking through my material on the "regression to the mean" approach (in English, "the price comes back to the middle") I found a funjny quote I'd squirrelled away: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - attributed to John Maynard Keynes

1700 Been down for awhile - we're having a little weather and a power blip confused one of the gadgets... finally power-cycled the DSL modem AND the SonicWall AND the Router AND the Wireless all at the same time and got the 'net back. Anyway, I had some stuff I was working on when the...

Easy to read, aye. I watch for slowdowns at a turning point, and it's a lot easier to see range (hi/lo) and change (open/close) decreasing with the 'sticks.

1513 Shit fire. Leroy! I'm soaked - that'll teach me to sit here and watch... I'm finally out, with a loss on the trade and a loss for the day... but it coulda been a hell of a lot worse. Trade Summary: 1034 +129600 1511 -129725 --------------- N E T -075 Day 3 trades...

1311 What About Bob? The basic premise of the BoB Lines is that the middle (PP) is the "real" price as of the start of trading, and that the price will tend to bounce back and forth between any two lines, not necessarily adjacent ones. If the price exceeds the outside limits, it signals a...

1304 Back from lunch...my trade is still bad, so far. It's at 129800 right now, -200. But... range and volume are down, and it looks like price may be about to start down, too.

1157 I'm fixin' to head off to lunch, let the chips fall where they may... Current trade 1034 +129600 Stop 129900 BE 129500 129575 +025 T1 129300 129500 +100 Follow 2 T2 129100 129300 +300 Follow 1 T3 128600 128650 +950 Follow 1/2 This is longer than I really care to let it...

What's your net contract-points / trades for the week so far??? Here's mine (so far - I have a live trade right now, which is as I type this, dead even - I'm hoping for it to go right, though...) Day Trades Net Pts Mon 2 -4.00 Tue 3 1.75 Wed 4 6.25 Thu 3 2.00 Fri 2 0.50 Week 14...

08-25-2006 0822 BoBs for today's trading: AO 130050 AI 129850 PP 129650 BI 129450 BO 129250 Overnight was fairly quiet, running from 129600 at pit close to 129900 by 2230, looping down to 129750 and back to 129900 at 0200, looping again to 129650 and back to 129800 and...

1437 While that was in the process of happening I had a conversation with a client and got to talking about stochastics. In the process of that, I was looking at stochastics on the ES charts, and looking at what he reminded me of, which was a system where you enter after a congested period where...

1328 Entry: +129650 / -129900 Okay, I'm in... but I'm not comfortable... volume's down, range is down... Second-guessing myself, I'm thinking "1299??? Why? It bounced at 1299 already, so why not make it go past the AI (R1)?" Well, we'll just see, won't we? 1359: -129900 S 129600 BE...

Hell's Fire! I thought I'd posted the entry, but I guess I didn't... here it is, anyway: 1315 Okay, I'm in: 1312 -129800 ST 129500 -300 BE 129900 / 129825 +025 T1 130100 / 129900 +100 Follow 200 T2 130300 / 130100 +300 Follow 100 T3 130800 / 130750 +950 Follow 050 1316 BE...

If I could figure out how to make Ninja-Trader do that, I'd add it to the setup right now - I gotta ask Vince if it can be done? I think this kind of programmability is in the works but not in the current release, but ya never know - If you don't ask, you don't get.

08/24/2006 12:56 Ahhhh... homemade enchiladas with beans from scratch (not out of a can, soaked overnight and slow-cooked), salad with local farm lettuce and tomatoes from the garden, and a two ounce shot of wheatgrass juice... can't beat it! BUrrrpppp! Let's see, whatta we got...

1118 Out at 129450 The price ran right along my BoB (Bounce or Break) line BI (Below, Inside) at 129400 for several minutes before finally bouncing. My stop at 129450 was executed. Trade summary: 0937 +129650 1118 -129450 Result +200 1 contract: Gross $100.00 Commissions...