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posted live in es journal over last 4 yrs along with others, strategy explained there in fragments, basically a mean reversion trade , you avg in short on rallys, reduce on smaller pullbacks, add again raising your avg, reduce on pullbacks ,etc until you get a reversion, cover on the widest...

cash stopped at todays nip, selling may have resumed or some more chop til 1 pm cst http://i.imgur.com/Xdn5cEY.png

google tight rope walking lessons, they don't start 30 ft in the air

dvol over uvol trend day pattern since a little before 10 cst

spx 21-3 res at the moment

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/08/06/rbis-rajan-sees-risk-of-financial-markets-crash/ central banker breaking the code of silence,crack in the dam is widening

take 5 .5 off of the spx numbers, spus went up and tested the 29-27 area , held as res, now pulling back to the 23-21 area possibly done with the bounce and heading for the 05 area, the large curve is being retraced back to the cleave

some guys trade better alone, when you get in a group there is an alpha dog, in the pits the big traders were always a distraction,i would see something clearly and if the alpha was selling where i wanted to buy or close, it threw me off, i found i did better off the floor ...something to think...

doesnt look right , you have a 5 day graph there you should have 5 one day profiles on the left and a 5 day cumulative on the right,, have never used the vah/ val.. have told this to many and they seem to fade off, but it's crucial that you hand chart,without it that chart doesnt mean anything...

some guys go down to 1 lots, a string of small winners helps, try to tune out the other traders in the office

you trade sim til you know whats going on, rather than blow several small accts or one large one learning

you could leave $500 on your desk so that when you lose ,you deplete the pile , might make it seem realistic, vs playing a video game, floor traders kept a position card on them and some carded theirtrades on a sheet so at the end of day they can tally and make sure it matches the sheets you...

i hit tpo twice then one of them i change the time per profile to day and on expansion i change it to no, this gives the one day charts with the multi day profile to the side, the reason i don t use the volume profile is because i like to flip from the cash charts to the futures charts and the...

no offense intended kut, just using your post as an example, it's full of absolutes, beliefs ,they may or may not be true, but whatever one believes becomes his truth, trick is to eliminate as many absolutes as possible, since most of us either love ourselves or loathe ourselves, thats a good...

still happens , all the time, if you zero out the price on the dom in think or swim,so that there is a total count on the bid and offer, instead of so many at each price 5 above and below, if we are going up there are always more on the offer,10k on the bid and 13k on the offer for instance...

style/drawings/studies at top right of screen if you are looking at an es chart, click studies,add studies,go down to profiles,click and choose tpo or volume, spx has no volume so use the tpo

buy a $5 graph paper notebook, learn how to draw this chart and start hand charting from 830-3 15 cst, you will learn more in the next 6 months than the next 5 yrs without it http://www.cmegroup.com/education/interactive/marketprofile/ learn this on your own the way the author did and look...

there is a prevailing negative sentiment across ET, there is also a rumor that 95% of traders fail in there first year, there is a strong correlation SimpleMeLike do whatever it takes to derail that sentiment

mp is a tool that measures vol and time at price, cl is just too thin, larger timeframes show where the big players are, so in that sense it works,but still not as well, often times they will turn before target ,like a point or ,50 cents, so you would have to adjust your strategy to fit the...

goal should be discipline to keep you in biz, figure out what that is, the 1 pt stop in es is to small willl get eaten up by 1000 stops,you need to perfect a setup then learn to sit on hands til it shows up, then trade it and be disciplined to stop yourself out when wrong, down the road you...