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    Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Futures Trading Journal

    I've been lurking and studying for a few months... and thought I'd solicit feedback on my annotations to see if I'm getting the fundamentals correct. Any feedback is sincerely appreciated. Thanks, - Talas (P.S. I realize the level of detail in my annotations varies. It's due to...
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    Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Futures Trading Journal

    Spyder, There was an curious sequence starting around 9:55 today that I had trouble classifying. I noted that the 9:55 and 10:00 black bars showed higher prices on decreasing black volume so I was suspecting a non-dominant black guassian (blue ch retrace). The 10:05 and 10:10 red bars...
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    Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Futures Trading Journal

    Greetings all, I've recently began working to understand what spyder and Jack have generously shared... and think I might have started to grasp Gaussians. This is my understanding (may or may not be correct) of Gaussians. Often I find rephrasing something helps test my understanding...
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    What do you believe to be an acceptable yearly return?

    Anyone who is talking 10% per month or 200% per year is either a bold-faced liar or wack. So, it's impossible to design a system that wins 50% of the time, has a win$/lose$ ratio of 1.5, and makes 24 trades per month ? At 1% of equity risk per trade, that's 6% per month or compounded...
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    Quantifying Setup/Entry Quality

    Thanks guys. I'm grateful for any input. Allow me to clarify, how do you decide if your setup/entry criteria is 'good enough' to warrant further development or whether it needs futher refinement or even discarding ? Correct. I'm backtesting on stocks. I guess the system would fall...
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    Quantifying Setup/Entry Quality

    Although I've been investing longer, I've only been working towards trading for a few months. I've read everything I could get my hands on. I'm now to the hard point of putting a system together. I'm working on quantifying the quality of the setup/entry that I've indentified and delaying...
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    Checklist for Success..No.1

    Perhaps a rephrasing would be better.... If you believe you can be successful, you may or may not be right. If you believe you cannot be successful, you are absolutely right. The most useful aspect of believing that you can be successful is in helping you to persevere. Without that...
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    traders who are deeply religious

    Cooldude is obviously trolling... but if he were to have read Matthew 25:16.... he'd at least be less ignorant troll. - Talas
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