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I agree with opm8. Nevertheless a sign of strength can be very strong or just a little less so. I also agree that there is ultimately a decisive point in price and time that you can't wait for. So right here money management kicks in. You quantify your signal, whatever it is, you quantify...

There are a lot of things missing in the world. I know south america and I have been to places even an south american couldn't imagine. Electricity is pure luxury. You don't necessarily need it. Schooling, clean water in less than a mile's distance, sufficient diet at least for kids and...

You completely missed the point. By a wide margin. It's about understanding price action. Losses are a natural part of trading and if they accumulate to less than the wins there's no problem. BUT potential losses force you to act in a foreseeable manner. I hold that losses are the key to...

I'm in a philosophical mood lately. Always chasing that complex feedback mechanism some people despectively call trend. And now I realize it doesn't feed on wins. It's losses. Hypothetic or real ones. Only the negative side brings in the dynamics. Stocks may go up for years, but the...

El que sabe habla y el que no sabe va a hablar tambien, apostamos?

Agreed. By the way Heinz von Foerster, who is a genius physicist, describes organic self-regulating systems - like humans for example - as entropy retardors. And - entropy itself is a misnomer because the physicists who discovered it where too dumb to translate a simple term into plain greek...

Very nice thread. Food for thought. Thanks hcour and mark.

If you've read Adam Smith (the real one, 18th cent.) you know that money is accumulated work, i.e. time. The only problem is, there is no "pure money". There are only credits backed by entities ( like the US) or commodities. Adam Smith identified wheat as the real "hard currency" in his...

There is one ( and just this single one) totally irrational belief in buddhism: The belief in the existence of dharma. That in this crappy world (1. noble truth) there actually is a way to behave morally and be happy at the same time, even if you personally are just too dumb to understand...

I've tried to figure out, if IB has market data for the SP 500 forward premium. In eSignal the symbol would be $ESINX. Others call it EM-PREM.Z or EPREM AO or whatever. If I were too dumb to find it, please tell me. If it in fact doesn't exist, consider introducing it, please. It would be...

Well,yes that's what I mean with globex. I do follow the CME futures, I get my futures quotes from IB. You can compare futures and spot forex realtime with the CME calculator: http://equivalentsrdc.cme.com:443/index.html If you remove forward points, spot and future quotes should be...

I' d like to start a discussion here on forex specific problems of price/ volume analysis. I don't want to differ too much between spot forex and globex. I see globex, just like EBS, as one of the main constituents of that decentralised market. Applicable volume is open to discussion, I...

I have no idea how to code my ideas. In the moment I'm working at a defined decision process for my discretionary trading. Pivot points were just an example, because I think it's an example for something self-reinforcing. You could measure retracements from pivots in a Wyckoff style and if...

That the term laziness offended you is a very good sign. So I assume I have to apologize. To be more specific: Markets are defined by the actions of their agents. Agents don't buy or sell in a linear sense, they are using strategies, i.e. complex modes of recursive actions. Agents tend to...

Quite reasonable. If you are into slow holding and sitting out it should be profitable. The reason for failure regarding retracements might be laziness to explore non-linear systems theory.

Quite simple: No need for religion business here. Some people learned about a simple, beautiful concept, investigated and wised up. Others didn't. So what?

Thanks for the links. Very nice stuff indeed.

If you ever have one trojan - as opposed to a boring, simple virus - you have thousands. Because the first thing a backdoor is used for is to create more backdoors. BTW something as powerless as Norton doesn't even serve as a placebo. How to reinstall without losing your data...

I'd like to give some fundamental input to this. There are two major undisputable trends: scientific progress and integration of global markets I'd like to picture that as a number of connected pools. The pools grow, and the connections grow until there is a final merger. What does that...

I was fiddling round with some strange volumespike. It gets printed always in the last completed minute bar. I clear the chart data, backfill again, if it was at 20:37 before, now it's at say 20:39.When I stop quotes, clear data and backfill it's gone, as soon as I restart the quotes I have it...