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The higher that oil prices go the sooner we will get serious about alternative sources of energy. It is both necessary and inevitable that oil prices have risen and will continue to rise. Manipulation is a word that gets thrown around by people who are frustrated and lack an understanding of...

There are two forms of TA. Predictive and Trend Following. An example of predictive TA would be: Prices are moving up right now, but I know that they will turn around and move down tomorrow because of xyz indicator. An example of trend following TA : Prices have moved up enough so that my moving...

haha, you always crack me up. Some of the world's most successful traders use simple trend following techniques, such as moving averages. By the way folks, in trading as well as any other profession if you want to be successful, it might be a good idea to study others who actually have been...

The market has been trendy for day traders and he has done well. I would venture to guess that he is a short term trend follower. :D

You guys are funny. I'm not trying to sell anything. This is one of the simplest trend following methods. I'm sure all real traders are aware of it. It works well when the market makes nice big swings. It fails when the market chops sideways. I was simply pointing out that in the current market...

:) I have been a full time trader for the last 4 years.

My book would be just 1 page. I don't have much to say. Just simple trend following. I think I'll just keep trading instead.

I go long NDX calls when NDX is above an ascending 20 period EMA on a 5min chart. I use the rising EMA then as a trailing stop. Long NDX puts when the NDX is below a descending 20 EMA. These last few days this method has worked quite well.

1) The desire to countertrend 2) The desire to cut winners and ride losers.

Hey Youngtrader. May I ask which broker you use and how much $ your are working with?

1) Stocks have no real or intrinsic value. They only have make believe value based on what someone is willing to pay. 2) Stock move up and down in price. After you buy the stock your P/L is based on the stock's movement up or down. It is not based on the stock's real value. 3) Your goal...

Long NDX call options when (5min chart of NDX): 1) MACD above zero and above signal 2) Price above upward slanting 20 EMA Long Put options when there is the inverse condition. 10% stop 20-50% profit objective Interday only.

stockta.com. I don't know that it is the best.

I am tempted to go ahead and provide my name so that you can see for yourself, but I'm not sure if that is a good idea or not.

My real name.

I googled my name and I found posts on ET which I have written or responded to. Is there something wrong here?

If you are consistently profitable why can't you grow your account size and increase your income?

Jasper, Do you feel that you really understand why you have lost money so far? Do you have rules that you break or do you follow your rules and still lose money or is your trading discretionary without rules? I believe that the principals of successful trading are 1) trade with the trend...

You don't deserve a response, but I will give you one anyway. The best traders in the world are sometimes right and sometimes wrong. They play probabilities based on empirical evidence. When they are right they don't gloat. Unless your attitude changes you will never be successful.

On Ed Seykota's website tradingtribe.com you can click on chart server, then click on chart page and you can see a list of stocks that are in a "historic uptrend" I'm not sure what the screening process is for the stocks. I don't trade individual stocks but if I did I might use the list as a...