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I would not suggest Bruckner's "Hammerklavier" or anything similar... the experience would be as close as you can get to being raped in prison.

One thing I am working on is Visual Clarity... meaning, a completely consistent environment with the minimum amout of indicators (1 to be precise) and the charts always scaled the same way on screen. Then, screentime will slowly school your brain and give you a feeling of "if A happens, B is...

Why would someone called flipflopper be concerned about whipsaws? Increase the fractal until the noise diminishes, and trade only the perfect setups. I am looking at the YM today, no trade yet, but there might be a long setting up....:)

I did 2 courses with him, years back- one was the money managment, the other one stock trading. And I read his books. Stock trading was useless, but I did not know that then. It was a Canslim approach that worked in a Bull market, period. The money managment with the whole Monte Carlo thing can...

Not on my ZS X8 Swing chart... my entry on 12/18 was a pullback in a beautiful uptrend.... trade worked well even though stopped out. On second thought, I should have closed out before.... there must be some big sell orders (taking profits for the end of year) out there if Soy ramps up like...

Ouch! Happened to me once... thats' why I dont like resting orders in the market..... even more so close before the market closes before a holiday....I got stopped out at 1115.5, ZS X8. Was in from 12/18 at 1062 even, but still... paper profits were about 3400 in the morning, and I placed a...

Stopped me out of a profitable swing trade. Still profitable, but gave back about $500 per contract..........ZS X8

IB's Headquarters (?) are in Greenwich, CT, which is 15 Minutes from my house...saw the building... I could drive over there and see if they are all in a Congo line wearing funny hats or boinging the secretaries....

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Maybe not like a Jesuit... just like Bill Clinton :)

Beat me to it:)

I would rather say it is experience based on hope. SO the plot thickens... the "portfolio parameters" allow for a trade that is "terrible" and a "mistake" but not for a trade that is a "terrible mistake"? You start sounding like a Jesuit 200 years ago. :D

Depends on how many contracts you trade and how big your account is.

What -pray tell- does this evasive blather mean: "i don't use the standard risk metrics on per trade basis"??? Unless you are just playing grownup, you must have SOME risk metrics, no? - You do have a stop, don't you- Y/N? - The stop is a certain number of points away, right- Y/N? - You...

So- back to the stops issue. Basically, your stop must be more than 300 points away... let's say it is 400 points. That where the famous "the retail trader has no edge except being prepared to risk more than the institutional trader" stuff comes in... But that means: the big whale that you seem...

Yes, my mistake... the Essex. I meant resonable stops. Guys like Taleb trade like this. They take many small losses, and then make a killing when the black swan comes. But if you take many big losses, then the black swan does you no good, even if he finally does appear....

But that only makes sense if you have tight stops. If you don't, betting on finding the whale will wipe you out, and you end up like another famous whaler, the captain of the Pequot...

Well... the mountain dwarfes are OK, because I am a technical analyst (remember, I live in the subway tunnel beneath Marketsurfer's Fifth Avenue offices).... they don't have to read, they just have to look at charts. When there is a buy signal, they blow the Alphorn. Which- by the way- is how...

My own trading blog on another website is read by several unemployed actors, a ventriloquist, a bearded lady and a trio of illiterate Swiss mountain dwarfs.

What are "plus hedgies" and why are there so many of them? And what about the lazy farmers? Why are they not mentioned here? :-)