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Haha! Amen on the smarts factor, and quick to recognize good setups too.

None whatsoever, I just like staring at words on paper.

I bet someone a million dollars you'd be the first reply in this thread, thanks!

I'm always reading books about TA and the markets, think I'm up to 60 or 70 by now over the past few years. Here's my top-5 for TA: Murphy, "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets" - clear, smart, and pretty exhaustive, best place to start if you're new. Brooks, "Reading Price Charts Bar...

Amen Redneck!

This gives me a lot to think about, thanks! You're totally right that my entries need work too. I'm hoping the entries will get earlier as I gain more experience and confidence, but in the meantime, I'm realizing I need to be a little quicker to grab profits too, because if I'm late to enter...

Go Chiefs?!?! Are you trying to get me banned!?!

Aaron "RBF" Rodgers is gonna have a rough year if you ask me.

LOL, good to hear, but you haven't seen me talk about my Eagles or my Phillies before!

Amen on the last couple weeks, I've really been getting whipsawed to death! But it's forced a couple epiphanies I needed to have about what was still wrong with my system, so at least I think I got some value for the losses. Curious where you're getting these very precise statistics from. 92%...

That makes sense. I only tend to get banned on discussion boards involving my favorite sports teams, but increasingly the market has taken the role sports used to play in my life, so maybe I'm due for an ET ban any day now.

Thanks PPC! Lotta good points in here, especially in your "Basically..." paragraph which also got a couple good chuckles outta me. Only one assumption I'll briefly correct: The last thing I would personally do is take a pointer on a discussion board and just implement it without rigorously...

This thread has taken a strange meta turn, but whatever. If sharing general tips and wisdom on TA, on setups, on profit taking strategies etc could really spell disaster for your system, then I'll still insist the obvious: that means you're either sharing overly precise details of your system...

Amen to all of that. I knew full well most of these trolls aren't successful traders, but it hadn't occurred to me some of the moronic replies you get on here are to trick you into revealing a stealable edge. Of course I know better than to reveal core parts of my system, but one has to ask, if...

Sage advice. After a full year now of developing my trading plan, I had what felt like my real breakthrough month in July. Now August has been back to slightly below breakeven, so I'm well aware this journey might stretch out for years still, but I'm 100% committed to eventually gaining...

Oh, I don't take any of this personally. I just put people on 'ignore' who have nothing concrete to offer. Sure, I enjoy discussing ideas, but I'm not here to have my time wasted by guys who are intent on being dicks or whose replies are practically aphasic they're so unclear and off-topic. One...

Thanks! That makes alotta sense. Course if the themes I'm bringing up are so old-hat to them, why don't they just not bother responding? There's a thought! Move on to the next thread. I can't help it that I'm still pretty new to trading. I don't know. My dayjob is in academia. Nothing more fun...

Since you're the only one who even tried to get a constructive dialogue going, and you also seem to have been here the longest, I'll direct my question above to you. How did this place end up this way? It's like a pack of poorly-programmed chatbots arguing with each other, I really don't get...

I'm really setting new ignore button records with this thread! Seriously, why is this place filled with so many Yogi Berra style contrarians and borderline aphasics? I ask a perfectly legitimate and open-minded question out of an interest to talk technical strategies. Get a couple...

Good grief, the fondness for platitudes in this place knows no limits. That's exactly what I'm trying to do and asking about with this thread. I think my system asks too much of QQQ's intraday swings, causing too many breakeven trades. Hence my considering a profit-take & re-entry when...