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    Are you above average

    Most people thought earth to be round ofc, like pancake! Anything else is heretic and Wrong. Most humans are afraid to be themselves rejected and outcast, so reject and are unwelcoming succumbed by their own fears and cultural doctrine.
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    How does one get started with API trading?

    API's are typically services these days, like webservices (SOAP/xml) or REST-services. But it is also used for internal library-calls, and is just a format for how to communicate. If you're not sure what to use the API for, then you have no need, so better work on your trading plan first. You...
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    Ok. What you got to lose? Working through examples in order to strengthen self-perception would be opposite of dogma in fact.
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    It's good to have questions. Though, wouldn't you rather be able to answer your questions yourself, than being spoonfed answer that may not suit you and your ideal trading style? In some endeavours, there are no short-cuts. Anyways, I've answered your questions so that you may investigate for...
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    What % of your P&L is going to commissions?

    For long-term breakeven strategy the % of commisions are really marginal. Will vary but for 2017 it was: ~ 1.45% 2018 for now: ~ 1.19% It's more like investing at that pace.
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    Group purchase of one high quality trading course

    BS Alert! Buyer Beware!!
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    U.S. Judge Authorizes Seizure of Venezuela’s Citgo

    The free healthcare systems that are cheaper than US healthcare where the doctors try to monetize on your sickness? Please move to Congo to your blind ideology. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/072116/us-healthcare-costs-compared-other-countries.asp
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    How to find a guide For trading

    Those willing to do the work, may improve.
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    It's a thought provoker that only volume makes price. I'm not here to define concepts and others' approach though.
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    The answer is in The Pattern. If you are to grab just one thing from JHM in isolation, then let The Pattern be that one thing you taketh away. Then you may safely forget that statement altogether. Now, in order to drive a car, is it best to read a whole library on car driving, or start driving...
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    Disclaimer: There are many old threads and posts on ET on the subject already, though it seems one need to be pointed in the right ways in the general right directions and after much dilligent work, before the contents start making personal sense. They certainly made no sense to me when I...
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    How to find a guide For trading

    Any sources for this opinion?
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    On 10-case geometry and beyond

    Zig Zag seems to make it easier to spot turns and larger Channels.
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    How to read this VOLUME chart ?

    For more about what is recorded in the chart, you need to look at the specific instrument and how that data gets recorded. 1. Colours on volume usually follow colour of candlestick body, ie. the direction of price from open to close during the session. So if price closed lower than open, the...
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    Why Traders Lose

    Circular logic does not sum it up.
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    Why Traders Lose

    And 2000/2001, but surely not mostly? But you're right in that Odean is a bigger influence, almost half of them in fact.
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    Why Traders Lose

    The list cites 11 sources: – 1Barber, Lee, Odean (2010): Do Day Traders Rationally Learn About Their Ability? – 2Odean (1998): Volume, volatility, price, and profit when all traders are above average – 3Barber, & Odean (2000): Trading is hazardous to your wealth: The common stock investment...
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    Why Traders Lose

    https://www.quora.com/Do-90-of-day-traders-lose-money-because-I-have-been-trading-for-only-a-short-period-of-time-and-my-principal-has-increased-by-30-so-is-this-simply-beginners-luck?share=1 Some nice answers on top of this page, and statistics lifted from another article: 80% of all day...
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    Why Traders Lose

    One of the biggest problems are bias. Someone sees a chart where there is a miraculous V recovery, thinking this is normal and the stock market is easy, so why not make all the easy $$$$? The same goes for ALL chart analysis and building systems. This is hard to overcome, though automation...
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    On 10-case geometry and beyond

    I am definitely late to this party, but I have a few questions about the PP Sheet. a) What is an INT as it relates to PP1b and PP1d? Your Q's are all ontological of the special sense. Int (ernals) cause bars to be unnamed in the usual volume test porcedure manner. Thereforethese "spaces"...
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