Recent content by madf

Of course.. you are 100% correct. Either the forecast is explicit (i.e. technical indciators/s/r) or it is built in recognition - which I believe the most experienced/best use. Whatever it is, a combination of circumstances .. work and are often self fulfilling as enough good traders...

Try Excel with different font sizes...

sorry : I just moved it from to top to the missle so it was more visible:-)

"Do you use any tool to show the daily range intraday so far? (other than ATR 1 on a daily chart)"? see attached Quote Page in IRT

4049 Hi , 3981 lo = 68 point range at 17.15 GMT- not 80.. but nice trading day...:-)

I used to practice ju-jitsu but my body is now much older and I still run 20 miles a wekk - but much slower. That's my competitive urges seen to. Yoga is all about control of yourself, both bodily and mentally: seeing yourself as a rounded person and being at peace with yourself as an...

The usual answer of someone trying to justify gross disparities.. Ignorance is bliss...

I prefer yoga and meditation....

1. How do YOU know? Spoken to them recently? 2. I suspect they would prefer to be paid and live as the average American It's amazing how some people say others prefer poverty in order to justify protectionism!

Please be aware in the real world there are huge disparities in wealth and income. The average US standard income is probably around $40-$60k per year. In India it's lucky to be $10k per year. In a free world - a democratically free world free from central planned economies - jobs that can...

well for years the US has had a strong dollar policy which is equivalent to exporting jobs. It still has a huge budget deficit and a huge balance of trade deficit. And it has very low interest rates. You cannot have all thoise and jobs as well .. in the long term So perhaps now it's...

I don't know why you are all getting worked up about this. It's being going on in electronics since the 1980s. Where did Korea /Taiwan get their electronic industries from? After all, US consumers love low prices.. as do we all.. So if you want low prices and the job is labour intensive you...

is that the DAX tends to move from Pivot to pivot and if it breaks through one strongly often stops and reverses to touch the pivot again before continuing on.. I tend to look to sell at pivots unless the monetum is high.. and use them as targets.. (others do as well:-)

"The problem is not my losses, but that I take my profits too soon. But I suppose you have the same problem?" Here is how I solve that problem when I do have to follow a trade: ie. when the price is NOT trending 1. the 20ema in 2 mins is a very strong barrier to shorts and longs. Unless...

Well I use IRT and here is a useful guide to Backtesting http://www.linnsoft.com/tutorials/F_trader_backtest.htm