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    Definition of a trend

    Throw in the pitching and the base running fractals too. Scouting and the way the skill leagues are stacked is a sexy thing too. It was a bit humorous that first analogy.
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    Definition of a trend

    See attached.
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    How do you determine your max bet size?

    I'm not into betting but there are some serious aspects of the compromizes a trader must make. I go for leverage because the rewards are best. In position trading, keeping the money velocity requires that only high beta stocks be used and the liquidity has to support my upper limit of...
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    System to stay intelligent after graduate school

    Check in with you PCP. He will get you going on 7 to 10 items your story is telling here. When long term memory no longer can be created, there are many direct links as to why. Read two parallel stories to yours in "The Predictors" and Derman's autobiography.
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    Definition of a trend

    OP, you have gotten off to a poor start. Price change is a requirement for making money and makig money can be done at a variety of velocities depending upon where the person choses to operate. Some past examples here include those who make the chioce to operate on two levels and even...
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    Education for trading?..why?

    Education for Trading Ed for trading deals mostly with building a replacement for the first recourse a person turns to while beginning to learn to trade. The first mental recourse is the kind of stuff and the mental orientation most of the posters in this thread turn to to comment here...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    Here is a trade not taken by the beginners of this thread. To take it you can "read the tape" as shown above. To get to "read the tape", you get in the ball park by using volume and indicators if you wish...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    Here is the premium panel that portrays the smart money moves. This is not found on retail or pro platforms. But is announced pre open each day at indexarb.com. You have to adjust for drift as day goes by snce that website does not have the capability. As you see several signals and changing...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    Here is an actual snapshot. Bar 53 at 1:52 in the PM. There is a numberd list. follow the numbers to see how a person's eyes keep track of the tape. Here you see that the trade (shown in pink) as a vertical line. It is easy to see that the snapshot was taken just after the person being...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    The first one shows a tape reading cluster in modern times. I had the ggod luck to start trading in 1957, so the ticker tape was the best thing going then. It is like streaming data today and Tape reading was just something that turns out to be easy to do for people whose minds are developed...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    Well lets get on with the not so obvious. Some walk the talk instea of vice wersa. Here are some high velocity money charts for tape reading. first chart shows the panels used. Second chart shows the timing of th trade shown and why each step is done Third chart just focuses on the...
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    [Help] Tape reading and other techniques

    The thick and thin on the bars means somthing visa vis volume. The panel's math isarchived in wealthlab and the Hershey script thread. pepe did some nice panels on the DOM and non stationary window values rates of change. None of this is used in the Cash Cow basic which is indicator and...
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    [Help] Tape reading and other techniques

    Step one Here is the premium panel that portrays the smart money moves. This is not found on retail or pro platforms. But is announced pre open each day at indexarb.com. You have to adjust for drift as day goes by snce that website does not have the capability. As you see several...
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    [Help] Tape reading and other techniques

    Here is an axtual snapshot. There is a numberd list. follow the numbers to see how a person's eyes keep track of the tape. Here you see that the trade (shown in pink) as a vertical line. It is easy to see that the snapshot was taken just after the person being mentored pulled the trigger...
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    [Help] Tape reading and other techniques

    Hi ethan, I will post two pics for you. The first one shows a tape reading cluster in modern times. I had the ggod luck to start trading in 1957, so the ticker tape was the best thing going then. It is like streaming data today and Tape reading was just something that turns out to be...
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    Do you trade the first ten minutes?

    There are two aspects of the open which must be considered. 1. Yesterday 2. The premium Consideration of yesterday. I check out about 32 items. I call it a preflight check. By knowing what is going on in terms of "how the market works", you get a thorough context. By filling in...
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    Managing stress and low energy levels

    I had a good life for the most part. Asthma nad heyfever were always with me. I stayed in Great places for that: Grennwich on the water; Zurich near the mountaion and now Arizona and pools time and mountain hiking and glider flights. I had a cardia event a few years back so I cyhehvked into...
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