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Your own arguments are more important than wether we "agree" or "disagree". Anywhere there is great consensus, there's something larger missing from the picture, and fragility/apathy has already set in. Of course, you can trade by calling tops and bottoms, but why make it harder for yourself by...

Was attempting just to get the OP on track with his question. Of course, reality can be very nuanced. Broker and exchange may invalidate or "forget" your stop loss for various reasons. Wether you get fill or not depends on order price and how long the order will live, after trigger has been...

Your stop loss should trigger whenever price is beyond it. If you get fill or not depends on the market and your price.

Example from chart above: Nov-Feb was a downtrend. You want to trade with trends such as this, not against. Now, very little in Nov showed clear signs of the coming breakdown, so in practice trying to call tops and bottoms will be fruitless/hard. You don't want to keep banging your head against...

Newsflash: Next depression will feel depressive.

How do you walk together with a friend in the woods? How do you run together while orienting in the woods? Also climbing, diving? Trading may be like Ironman (triathlon). What is happening NOW is also lagging, as it NOW has become past. Your reading price action is also lagging, unless you...

These are just a few individual charts with focus based on no objective rules. What happened to price over time on one chart, are not significant in any way for your next 1000 trades. Do objective analysis across all relevant data you can come by, split in two if you want to test changes...

In this business, if you want to see the light, better start making your own damn candle! Some see it as a fight for survival, others surf on the big waves. What may be fierce competition, may also be grace and dance. Despite living and breathing beings, minds seek imprisonment and conformity...

Probably nobody will trade the exact same way as you do, and that's a good indication that you've got your own system, something that is not just a shallow copy of someone else's sketches. Then, how interested are you in how other people trade, really? Myself, I trade EOD-data and consider...

A signal is just a signal, performing exactly to it's specifications/instructions. Wether it's "false" or not, may have nothing to do with subsequent price action. Of course, the better the signal is, the less times it will exit against you, but your stats shows you that, right? The stats will...

I don't really care but I checked out your stock thread. Honestly, I can't really see the brilliance of shorting FB during this bull-run, and don't really see the decline of price around 56-58-62 with short take profit 52-49 at/after the date 19.12.2013 either. If you then claim that you didn't...

What about the opposite, how easy it is to accomplish uncertainty or direct losses? Very easy! Just buy high sell low all day with as much leverage as you can. Very soon you'll be out of money. If not losses, at least the tactic will bring uncertainty! So there's no glory (or more importantly...

What is the underlying value of an option and who guarantees such? You might get similar or even better results using options, but it's not the same asset as the underlying. Interesting things can happen to people's accounts when things get hairy.

Depends if you want to waste battery power on something like this always running in the background on your phone, plus you need to figure out where to get the real-time data and how real-time you need it to be. First you could research if there's some service out there already that can provide...

Biggest challenge ATM seems to be avoiding making my system perform worse. You know that saying of continuous improvement? Seems default human behaviour is continuous worsening! However, the effort also makes me learn more about where it should maybe be heading in the future. So all in all, and...

Fact of the matter is this: Most people, including most everyone on this forum, are simply overwhelmed by everything (economics and market). Even people having traded 10+ years might only be specialized in just one or two markets, ie. stocks or Forex. Very very few have consistent success over...

Good topic! The word you're looking for is actually probability. While just another model, using statistics may sometimes help clear some of the mixed signals provided by the market. My own thoughts on this, is that it uniquely depends on the market! If the market goes cleanly up and down in a...

Visualize what you would have done that day if things were different. Then, extensively figure out all of what was missing, so that it could've been better. Then try to find holes in your logic and wishful thinking, start see things as they are more. To be repeated until you have prepared enough...

People usually get it 180 degrees wrong.. (I always mean such criticism in a constructive way btw). Strict stop-lossing is actually way harder than not using stop-losses. It's easier to let price go for a while, and settle on some mean value, rather than entering HFT-space now and then, and get...

I think you misinterpret me, which is probably my own fault. My stops may or may not move after every EOD, based on evolution of market context, but not necessarily the most recent price. Initial stop loss is per default wide enough, unless there's statistical reasons for it to be tighter...