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  1. Picaso

    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    I realize it's all the green and the red, but... IMF admits Greece unable to pay back its rescue. Talk of postponing payment from 2014 to 2024 Irish Parliament votes on austerity budget in 30 minutes; it's expected to pass. Get your Guinness ready.
  2. Picaso

    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Some have slightly different numbers. Reuters: S&P 500 ABOVE 61.8 PCT FIBONACCI RETRACEMENT OF 2007-2009 BEAR MARKET SLIDE AT 1,228.74 Edit: never mind, I hadn't seen your 1230 S&P :eek:
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    CL Redux

    .20-40 buy zone? Gold tanking Looks like high volume
  4. Picaso

    CL Redux

    +.87 stop to be :35 stopped out be
  5. Picaso

    CL Redux

    Euro, baby, euro! They have to please Froilan Merkel. Honestly, lately I've been thinking that my trading would improve dramatically with a drink (or two, but no more) :D
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    CL Redux

    Irish Budget at 10:45 EST Best trading to everyone
  7. Picaso

    Cassie's Pictorium

    LOL :D
  8. Picaso

    Birth of a trader

    OMG!
  9. Picaso

    CL Redux

    Since for some reason you quote me here, please let me refresh your memory: 10-28-10 04:16 PM Quote from dejavu8: due to limited range of CL, this position can be averaged down with 10 more contracts for a 10+ tick exit with profit. I thought this had been settled, though...
  10. Picaso

    Wikileaks Thread

    You'd think that the last people who would want to mess up with someone leaking confidential information would be a Swiss bank... then again...
  11. Picaso

    Wikileaks Thread

    How to create a full mirror of wikileaks: http://blog.susobaleato.eu/2010/12/neutralizing-dns-attack-on-wikileaks.html
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    Trader from the Zone

    1) ZN's tick is half the size of ZB's. ZF's tick is half the size of ZN's (1/4th of ZB). Also they <i>tend to</i> have lower volatility. Be aware, however that the usual risk on/off theme for Stocks vs. Treasuries has been altered by the FED's POMOs (i.e. everything can go up/down at the same...
  13. Picaso

    Birth of a trader

    Brent, Maybe you should start your own journal (I mean it in a nice way). :) Also, I'm not sure I understand your trades from your charts, could you please clarify? Thanks.
  14. Picaso

    CL Redux

    sim long .27 Gunning for a break of [Edit: RTH - .50-ish] HOD - probably a failed attempt below the overnight HOD :19 stop to be (was 10 ticks) :21 stop trailed to .43 :22 stopped out at .43 (+16; rolling +6 after comms). Over .50 was a good target, but (based on volume) I...
  15. Picaso

    CL Redux

    sim (late in the session and late entry) short .13 stop at .22 (9 ticks) :07 stopped out at .22 (-9 ticks)
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    CL Redux

    +.85 Damn! Out .86 - was trying to tighten the stop, moved the target instead. Jumpy anyone? That's number 55 for those keeping track :D Stop was meant to be at .80 Looking to re-enter, but fumbling lunch :D
  17. Picaso

    CL Redux

    ZZZZZZZzzzz... eh? uh? what? Hey, go pick on somebody your size, you pivot-trader! :D [Incidentally, 90% of the days the open is one of the best trades and the hour or so pre-market tends to be choppier and more erratic, but today it seems the nice trades were all in the European...
  18. Picaso

    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Silver over 30 - max since 1980. Gold trying to break out.
  19. Picaso

    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    So today so far mostly a range-bound day... where I would be inclined to buy the pullbacks and sell the rallies with modest targets and tight stops.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    JSSPMK, I understand that the way you look at it (weekly/cumulative daily) is useful to tell if we're having distribution/accumulation, is that so? What does the weekly say? Intraday I look at it in two ways: 1) To see if the cumulative/average (I use WMA-5-median, but anything that is...
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