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Sure... I'm friends with all the different trends... though if my trend jumped off the roof of a high building, that doesn't mean that I would, too... The trend is your friend, but it's not your wife... Sure - though one potentially fuzzy area has to do with trades that aren't going...

Scott, I appreciate many of your points, and will have more specific responses later, but, at this point, I'd say that, though I prefer looking for patterns and "situations" among many stocks, if I were going to focus on just one trading vehicle, I'd probably choose the NQs, and maybe the...

To begin with... 1. Trade more expensive stocks, or cheaper stocks in bigger size - with clear understanding of alterations of relevant parameters (including maximum allowable loss); 2. Have a larger number of higher volume market-leaders and sector-followers ready to trade along with...

So far, I'd have to say yes, even though I expected a bit more feedback then I've been getting. I have been trading with great discipline - among other things with the sense that I really don't want to take some utterly idiotic set-up then have to explain myself later... True, I may have...

Taking a longer view, the month of October was a hard one for me, but I think it led to some authentic progress. I felt off-balance for most of the month, and increasingly so as the month went by, especially as a result of data problems. As I've already mentioned several times above...

OVER - problems especially in and around the release of economic data and the resultant "whipsaw" bar. As also earlier noted, TS data and execution problems did not help, but, if not for happy feet, I could probably have completed this pass for something, and probably have avoided the loss on...

Could have gotten a lot more out of this trade or out of this set-up, but, despite having survived a test of the early HOD, I traded it kind of scared, and I liked another set-up better - one in the opposite direction on another stock that produced a couple of trades that almost worked out...

...desire to show up TV gurus who id'd AFCI as a long op. months ago... other relationships to prior trades... resonance with scenes from another sci-fi novel I've been reading... ...interesting how it's the bad trades that seem to trigger self-analysis - almost as though I inflict these...

HAS THE RAT-ZOMBIE RISEN FROM THE GRAVE? Lots of things went wrong on this trade, were already wrong with it before it had even gotten anywhere, and were still wronger in view of the good opportunities it obscured: 1) My market call was wrong and I allowed it to influence my trade...

First, the good news: My first week keeping a journal was also my best week in some time. I generally stuck to my plan and my rules, and I believe that keeping the journal on-line has been more help than hindrance. The bad news is that I hadn’t been having many good weeks lately, so...

Just about everything went according to plan on this one - except for the last piece of the trade: I suppose I could have held all the way to the last target, which was eventually hit after a re-test higher. And probably could have been a little less hasty on initial covers... AFCI is...

Didn't get hurt very badly on this one, but left a little on the table, and ended up taking a small loss overall. Things started out fairly badly with a partial fill. As a result, the direct move to initial target that might have seemed okay on 1000 shares looked like a waste of time on...

thanks for the update and the effort...

again today... Today, the OB data mostly seemed more accurate, with the L2 montage often being worthless or worse (much worse). And I'm thinking more and more that there really is something seriously wrong with the TS trade server, too, or conceivably, I suppose, with their "Intelligent"...

String Theory - about that I know a thing or two, nothing fundamental, but enough to get spaced out about it and have an intuitive feeling for what an intuitive feeling of an intuitive feeling about it might be... Stable Homotopy Rings of Spheres... love the lingo... Greek poetry... What is...

y'know... had a little pentimento and deleted the post, but you caught it... so, thar she blows... excellent book - nihilistic mid-21st C. sci-fi story...

Don't know what you were looking at (do tell), but TICK represents the number of NYSE stocks whose last trade was an uptick vs. number on a downtick. What you're describing is sometimes referred to as "breadth," and moves much more slowly than TICK.

Well... I thought IDCC was coming down along with the rest of the market. Instead, in action fairly typical of this "rally mode" market, the seeming breakdown reversed. In the meantime, IDCC also moved on to new highs. I still could have gotten back out near breakeven, but, when it made a new...

Was hesitant about taking this trade, as ATVI, though clearly in a downtrend, appeared to me to have made a nice bottom while reacting to the THQI debacle last week. The result still led to a decent result, but should have been better, as I misshandled the attempt to cover half the position at...

https://www.tradestationworld.com/discussions/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3117 "Rainman" says that he was told the whole L2 server farm would be updated by the end of this week... we shall see.