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One thing seems to me is there is different info in watching the chart (I suppose this is PA) vs coding indicators and developing a strategy for backtesting (I suppose this is TA). Watching the chart, I hear the beeps of the ticks as price approaches the S/R line, giving me an idea of speed. I...

Close to San Mateo. Not much to see with me -- I have a system, and check it every five minutes to see if it's given a buy or sell signal, if so, then enter, add stop-limit. Then go back to coding something, developing a new strategy, explaining to wife I'm working and not free to take her...

I wish we had advertisements like in Robocop: some cheesy short guy surrounded by babes in bikinis, then the joke is a cake or pie accidentally gets dumped on one of the surrounding bosoms, and the cheesy guy delivers the punchline: "I'd buy that for a dollar -- HAHHHAHAAHHAHAHA!!!!!" Or maybe...

A while back read an interesting article comparing depressed and non-depressed people on their perception of how much they can control something. They gave them some machine that worked 50% of the time in response to the buttons or controls, 50% of the time it did something totally different...

It does make the trading a lot easier, but no need to shut down the computer, just turn off the trading screen. I switch to playing games. But it is difficult, from your entry point, to choose a PT that will be hit before the SL. Sounds obvious, but there is a slight difference between that...

I see your point -- it's important to include what not to do, along with what to do. For example, most instruction manuals begin with the safety warnings to avoid injuring yourself before the instructions of how to operate the machine. Good point about not starting with how to profit as most...

Perhaps the forex article is being misinterpreted. One paragraph says: "... At FXCM, 75% to 77% of customers lost money each quarter last year, according to newly required disclosures to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. At Gain, which operates through http://www.forex.com, the...

If you are thinking about leaving, I'd recommend reading up on the Exit Tax first. Basically they will tax any wealth or assets you may have over $600,000.

Glad to hear things have improved for you. Just wanted to mention on this point, if you haven't heard of this, I saw an article (or maybe was on TV) about people who turned blue from some kind of silver overdose. Sorry, don't know the name or condition, but you can probably find something on...

Thanks nazzdaq, darkcanuck and circadian for the input. After thinking about it a bit, I agree with darkcanuck: the curve is the histogram curve unfolded with the x and y axes reversed, and the x axis replaced with an index of all values instead of a count. So the large ones, very few, don't...

Thanks for posting the wow statement, it's great to see such things are possible -- and congratulations on your trade !! At 600,000 contracts, does that mean your profit and loss was moving at $60 / pip? It also looks like the price went against you to around 132.20, which I estimate means at...

Thanks dave4532 for the link, this is the type of thing to study I was looking for. darkcanuck - Here are the histograms, looks like they are trying to approach bellish curves. It's got the histogram of all the data from the 10 non-contiguous (or non-continuous) weeks of 1100 values, and the...

trying to repost image: each curve is 112 bars, of the difference between one bar's close and the previous, which is about one week. There are curves from 10 weeks, taken at random between June 2010 and Jan 2011, being careful to avoid weeks with holidays in them. The curve with the big...

When I take the difference between one value (price, volume, anything) and its previous value, then sort them ascending, I always get a curve that looks like the attached. It looks like a very wide, flat tangent curve; or, it starts very negative, rises sharply, then a flat mildly positive...

I saw on Nova last month there is some researcher in Texas who made one of these real-life looking robots, and he connected it to the Internet so it could search for responses to questions to converse. I don't recall them exactly, but the responses were somewhat clever, like one was actually...

Since I started after a trade, whether a winner or loser, I would reflect on whether I had made an error or blooper like this executing the trade, to make a "Top 10 Trading Mistakes" list. This list is now 3 pages with over 100 one-liner bloopers and still growing. Number one is a good example...

I've seen a articles where they talk about the implied volatility of forex options like options on the EURUSD, and then they have a chart. Is there a site or somewhere to get this kind of implied volatility data? Or is there some way to get other data and calculate it? I've done a few searches...

I used to have to be places on time, so I always walked fast. If people walked slowly, so be it -- but it was so aggravating, the people who drift left and right, or walk side by side so you can't get around them, or meander an unpredictable path towards you looking every way except where they...

I've found Forex Strategy Builder very useful. It's not only Forex -- put your data in the right csv format and it can test it. It has easy to use GUI for making strategies. And the indicators are C#, it's not too difficult to code your own indicators, or request on their users forum, sometimes...

Thank you Mr Deco for the earlier responses to my previous questions, they have added a lot. Do you trade one strategy on an instrument at a time, or do you trade 2 or more strategies on an instrument at the same time? If it's several, then if 2 strategies give opposing signals at the same...