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    Thinking too much is a BAD thing

    Agreed. The only bias you should form is about the current trend on your trading timeframe based on your strategies way of determining that trend.
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    Trader P/L 2008

    On a day when you seemingly couldn't fail to make money my discipline went south.
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    IB feed question

    Yes. They supply it (quotes in real time) even if you don't chart it.
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    Trader P/L 2008

    Nothing day. Paid for an ice cream and that's all :)
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    What are the best parameters to use for the full stochastic indicator

    The best parameters for a stoch are to know what it really is: - draw a channel of 5 days - look at the close of this bar vs the high low for the last 5 days .... thats your fast stoch - imagine smoothing it out with a ma (mas) ... thats your slow and slower stochs
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    HSI Journal

    This is just my opinion. If you don't have any indicators now, don't add them, because anything you can read from an indicator you can read from a chart: - stochs just say how high is the close vs the channel for the last x periods - macd's just say is price going further this x periods...
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    Trader P/L 2008

    Hiatus longer than I thought. Started again.
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    another reason IB is the pits

    IB's been good for me.
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    "Why Technical Analysis is Nonsense"; Views?

    It seems to me that the problem is terminology --- and the richness of the english language. All TA is based on a prediction -- that the pattern being reacted to has a positive expectancy. Substitute trend/trendchange/statistical aberration/ etc etc ... but there is a prediction of positive...
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    Trader P/L 2008

    Changed strategies. Slow recovery. Wont be trading Monday or Tuesday next week. http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/learnernow/r1.png
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    FX charting on IB

    I followed some earlier recommendations here and got Sierra Chart. It's very good.
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    One Hell of a draw down

    Bluegar, PTF seems to have it right. Is that what you are seeing when you look at the specific trade entries and exits?
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