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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    NP. No I actually don't, but sounds like fun :)
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    Lynx read my report http://www.dailyfx.com/article_daily_brief_122304.html
  3. J

    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    I do, but any unexpected geo-political news and we can easily make 1.36 in a low liquidity environment
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    chin nice job :) remmenber when I asked you to stop at 60 pages? lol. we are going to be dead for rest of the week. anyone wants to read my summary http://www.refconews.com/main/WeekAhead.pdf happy holidays.
  5. J

    The Flaw in Trading System Reasoning...?

    :) no better words said. I guess that's why you are socrates.
  6. J

    Pyramiding into a trend

    Could you elaborate please? With a speciific example perhaps from your own history.
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    Pyramiding into a trend

    Yes when scaling into continuation you have to put in 1/2 as much as your original postion http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0071412743/ref=sib_dp_srch_bod/102-0777055-2339348?v=search-inside&keywords=average+half+as+much&go.x=15&go.y=13&go=Go%21
  8. J

    Pyramiding into a trend

    It sounds like everyone has different idea of what pyramiding is. In the sumplest terms is adding to your initial position in hopes of maximizing the continuation in price a good idea or bad one? Ans. it depends :) lol
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    Pyramiding into a trend

    M - did he test parabolic averaging? 1, 2,4,8 etc?
  10. J

    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    seth this seems t o be a site that recycles most of our research at www.dailyfx.com
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    I meant done for NOW.
  12. J

    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    If AuD goes it will be a very clear sign that the anti-dollar rally is done
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    Simple System for Beginners Monthly Results

    How is that different from discretionary trading? God knows I dont; want start another flame war with everyone about systems trading. My deeper point is that "methodic" trading ir isolating a susccessful setup vis a via a particular tradable is really what this comes down to. Systemic...
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    Simple System for Beginners Monthly Results

    Y no doubt. "trending markets" implies ER2 which is mcuh more trendy than either ES or YM which are the retrace kings of all tradables. Ultimatley -= does this show yet another example of failure of systemic trading which redcuces to nothing more than an optimized algorithm on a particular...
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    Y:) Any $ longs now are pure scalps/dead cat bounces - you handle them like a hot potato move them off inventory as soon as you can.
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    Marketwatch quoted me totally out of context today, so I am going to link to my dailfyfx piece on yahoo because I think what's really hapenning with the USD has lot more to do with Iraq/Vietnam than most traders realize. Anyway food for thought ...
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    Simple System for Beginners Monthly Results

    Fascinating. The clear conclusion is of course that this is a system designed for trending markets. The interesting question is are YM and ES simply in rangebound enviroment or are these instruments SO efficient that they retrace most of the gains one way or the other and wipe away the edge...
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    I notice he's been real quiet on his thread too.
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    Viper Viper Viper.... Here is a rule of thumb: If you have 1K account you trade for dime pips - 1K lots you dont risk more than 200 points If you have 10K account you trade for $1 pips -10K lots same 200 point risk 100K? then you cantrade for $10 pips 100K lots.
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    Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

    More like Gavno. Who can really tell if this is the top? Can things get a lot worse for US - very likely possibillity. Can we get lucky, bring peace to teh Middle East, let oil flow freely? well. then the article can be right. Draw your own conclusions.
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