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To the fellow living in the alley, a $25 dollar bottle of wine is an absurd extravagance. To the fellow living in a house with 14 bathrooms, it's something pedestrian to cook with.

PT Barnum is laughing in his grave.

Yes, the directives of even a fooled brain can do amazing things.

There is no way to thoroughly control for all the confounds in a study related to human performance or behavior....all we can do is the best we can do. No credible scientist would deduce proof from even the strongest of correlations with regard to the above.

Science, the art of the educated guess.

Nice to have some range expansion after a couple of sluggish days.

For the ES yes, I had to switch to the NQ for day trades.

Today is the poster child for Summer doldrums.

The best education I received was from watching hundreds and hundreds of hours of price development real time. The other piece is understanding behavior, expectations, beliefs and other human functioning as maintaining discipline is what separates the trader from the mere technician.

"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower." Dylan Thomas

While it was not worthy of a response, I can well understand the impetus for doing so.

Yep, "Tarzan" makes half mill a year? A local landscape maintenance guy in the Hamptons makes that.

Surely you don't believe corrections in either direction average "2 ticks". A day trader shouldn't care whether it's a bull market or not, each day has its own personality and segments of direction. In a bullish environment, there are likely to be more long signals but it would be costly for a...

Excellent collection of quotes dealmaker.

Unsurprisingly sluggish pre-holiday trade

If shorts cost you money, the defect is in the trade plan and not the short. Much is dependent on targets and stops. I am a singles hitter so my targets are modest and stops more modest. As a result, I just take intraday momentum swings and don't find much in the way of longs outperforming...

Depends on your time frame, I get long and short signals most days and don't care one way or the other.

For Pekelo..

I have 40 years, understanding permutations of modal and chordal possibilities can help regardless of natural talent. BTW, I stand in awe of the "naturals".