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...please permit me to offer you some most heartfelt advice. If you haven't already done it, read Mark Douglas' book "Trading in the Zone". Take his advice and trade a profitable mechanical system until you have faithfully taken 20 trades in a row (I'm still trying, haha!). Reread Douglas. While...

...that is a brutally long day. No wonder you party afterward. Putting together the word surgeon and drunk, surgeons are notorious drunks. But they have an advantage we don't: their nurses are ready for them when they get in with and give them massive hits of oxygen to sober up quick. Could this...

...I'm really with you on those sucky days. My systems don't trade one day out of four, and it's really BORING sitting there. Never thought of opportunistically trading something else, though. What's your style of trading? Ever try to rangebound trade on those sucky days? - Mike

...after I finished crying, I thought about it and decided that Pete is probably a pretty serious guy and expected a more serious answer, perhaps not considering that I was in fact serious, since my preparation consists of no preparation. I work very hard at not preparing, because preparing...

...for my first 60 minutes systems I use 1 minute charts. Not trading the rest of the day, but am still using 1 minute for system development for the post open period. I have formed the provisional opinion that mechanical systems still need the 1 minute resolution for consolidation breakouts...

...I usually get drunk the night before, and/or test (invariably) stupid trading ideas. Since I trade the same three mechanical systems every morning on the same issue, my "homework" is limited to doublechecking their optimization every weekend and making slight parameter adjustments to take...

...meaning "I don't give a shit" is "Je m'en branle", "I jerk off over it." Le juge was simply expressing his professional opinion of the trial in most graphic terms. HarryTrader will correct me if my interpretation is incorrect. I personally would give him the benefit of the doubt. Given the...

...if you don't already know him, IMO the absolute best trading advice is in Mark Douglas' two books, of which Trading in the Zone is the best. If you are interested in personality theory, from the point of view of changing your own, I recommend the books out of the '50s by Karen Horney...

...but Tony Robbins is a pale imitation of the real thing, a mere opportunist compared to the depths of the insights found in the works of the creators, Bandler and Grinder. Read the original works.

...IMO NLP is best thought of as a technology for mental re-engineering. It consists of a theory (easily verifiable by observation) of the processes people use to think, including external physical cues. It includes a large (and no doubt still growing) stable of therapeutic techniques for...

...in futures trading. See Babcock, and Katz and McCormick.

...thank you for the unintended compliment, but this human's brain is NOT "by far superior to anything a computer could ever do." Testing of stupid ideas (my best kind) often leads to nonintuitive (UNintuitive?) trades. I am developing my mechanical systems so that when I am so old that I've had...

Without too much effort, posts could be scanned in real time to provide the busy reader a guide to the post's BS quotient. It would suffice at the outset to sum up the occurrences of "me, I, greatest, rich, my website, fabulous, amazing, 100% accurate, can't lose, how bout dem, king, brokerage...

...say no more, you already said too much, it won't work any more now, please delete your post before it's too late. I do something similar, which I think of as determining "path statistics". If it does "this", should I go with it? Fade it? Since it did "that" (conditioning the future on the...

..I am curious, if it isn't proprietary, to know what statistics you are generating on prices. I ask because my methods are effectively statistical, although I don't explicitly go through statistical analyses. Thanks. - Mike

...I emailed him and sold him MY course. An easy mark. Try him.

...I haven't harrassed you for ages, mostly out of respect because I followed the URL you gave to "Laplace" and was overwhelmed by the literacy of your French. That assumes that you were indeed he, which takes some faith, as his posts were eminently well reasoned. However, my reason for...

...my betters may correct me, but I believe this is how they control the reaction to the 8:30 AM EST news, keeping a lid on the response (usually) until the open. Doesn't take much size to do that. The same technique can be used to move the market to the neutral or slightly biased position they...

...I know not whereof I speak, but consider this scenario: The market is rising. You think there's no strength on the ask, so you go long. Meanwhile the hidden strength (which earlier was selling into the rise) is eating up all the market orders to buy and creating the resistance it wants to...

...sounds like a noble endeavor! I believe that TradeStation allows you to capture B&A if you get on to something. Be sure to tell us if you fail. If we hear nothing more from you, we'll assume that you and Market Man are on a warm beach somewhere dispensing $100 bills to the local talent.