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    Trend Following dying?

    This is the essence of any method of trading: So what are the three questions that would allow you to do the 10 trades showing? My three Q's are simple: 1 Where in the pattern am I? 2. What is next? 3. How fast it it changing? Questions 1 and 2 plan my whole day if I wish. I...
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    Trend Following dying?

    There are many little people caught in the hindsight dilemma they have chosen to create. In the process of annotating the patterns, a person creates three lvels of geometry. Each segment is used to create two things: the small piece of the fastest fractal and the building blocks of the...
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    Trend Following dying?

    At 9:06 Tucson time, there have been three trends this AM, each having three price moves as the pts 1, 2, and 3 were set up for each trending container (parallelogram). A pt 1 is coincident with an FTT. (Using 5 minute bars on the ES.) The tape FTT got broken on each long trend. For...
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    POLL: Are you troubled more by losing trades or decent moves missed by your method?

    Some people generate content; other people generate hits for sponsors. Some people phish and phish and phish. This thread is about two common problems people like the OP have every day. They have a common root among traders who are insensitive to what is going in in the markets and also...
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    In Finding a Mentor

    I knew nothing of investing/trading until I was about 24 or 25. My dept head at college read me the WSJ for an hour and explained investing as the major income stream for faculty. A colleague at IBM and I shared plotting stocks for position trading (10% every 6 to 8 days). By sharing we...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    Refer to "Dr Hu" document tables entitled:Table of Decisions and Actions and Application of Capital Table so you have a context for your humor. People do well in proportion to their objective knowledge of their partnership with the markets and their responsibilities. Discovering...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    1. Traders with a plan. 2. The plan must include market sentiment. 3. Market sentiment must be known all the time. 4. A routine must be followed all the time to determine market sentiment. 5. The routine must include the means to know when market sentiment is changing on three...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    I'm sure everyone sees the approximately 32 trades this chart generated. Good trading to you too. For SCT traders this chart mimics point to point sub trading if Stat derived first derivatives are used. But it may give up bar volatility and IBGS's. (The data sampling is too meager) If...
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    POLL: Are you troubled more by losing trades or decent moves missed by your method?

    Our host for the SFG treasue hunt is Gabfly.... Clue 2 Author Gary Smith and I talked about it publically on the internet and we compared it to his largest trade which later appeared in his book......
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    POLL: Are you troubled more by losing trades or decent moves missed by your method?

    Its already posted, has third party verification and it larger than any trade posted on ET in ET's history so far..... let the shit for giggles treasure hunt begin...... anyone can give him clues. first one..... bio tech equity.
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    POLL: Are you troubled more by losing trades or decent moves missed by your method?

    Can everyone hear the whirrrrrr of the trap closing??????? LOLLLLLLLLLL... really loudly.... and he doesn't know what the word is.....LOL......
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    Very very good for you. This will put the pieces together for you. Here is the same chart as the last one but using indicator signals (lites on the panes) for the order of events.
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    each of the five parallelograms has three moves in it. the order of events in each parallelogram is the same with respect to P and V and the relationship of P and V taken together. What are all of those yellow boxes? What if you make each yellow box into one bar? how do all these...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    so based on your review of the Q and A what happens on the next bars after tha last one shown on the prior chart? How do you know? and what principle is being applied?
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    one word TSAIP
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    Attached is a chart with two market variables. In the prior post lines were darwn to form parallelograms. How close is the trough volume to the place where the lines crossed in the prior learning experience? BEFORE? AROUND? AFTER? Does the peaking volume occur BEFORE you not longer make...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    You are exactly right do not do those dumb things. You do NOT know how to determine market SENTIMENT. Sentiment means "WHICH WAY THE MARKET IS GOING AND LEANING. Making money in markets means "BEING ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE MARKET. Here is a slowly excutable solution to your...
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    Fading an unsuccessful strategy?

    Lets say the OP and the posters in this thread have no knowledge of logic. They are asked to prove this. They select a leader and he posts the first post in this thread. They all join in an prove they have no knowledge of logic. Here is the picture. It is a map in two dimensions on...
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    POLL: Are you troubled more by losing trades or decent moves missed by your method?

    that is a very funny u tube. It is so funny why these guys can't say goodbye. Was that a piccilo?........
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