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    Why is no one talking about Silvergate (SI)??

    It claims to have an "open and secure" ledger. I am not an expert but have seen major blows on crypto exchange. Missing crypto is another thing, it's the users' fault I suppose. It's terrible at keeping value. It seems to have simplicity under the web of complexity.
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    Why is no one talking about Silvergate (SI)??

    One of key crypto objectives is to remove central bank control and printing(devaluation). Privacy: Minimize collection of personal information, and maximize financial transaction privacy https://bitcoin.design/guide/getting-started/principles/ Cannot have a cake and eat it. Having not audit...
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    Moving Average Backtest

    Instead of cross over, monitor the number of days a stock can stay above a MA. Do a frequency plot of the results at various MA period.
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    Trading the Daily Chart

    Point and Figure chart. Only look price and no time. Another bizarre way is to look at time only. Monitor the Low and after the Low, where is the High and how far is the High and Close.
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    Why do investors buy at higher prices ?

    At a market cap of 18M, that's a nano cap stock. I won't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I won't put this stock into my database as it creates to much noise.
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    Trading the Daily Chart

    For position trader with time horizon from weeks to months, daily chart is fine. It's not possible to hit to top or bottom even with intraday chart.
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    Complacency in trading.

    Taking a 5-10% profit is good in each trade will never go broke. A 50-100% profit will be great but it wouldn't be frequent. Indiscipline will wipe out all these effort in one or two trades. Trading is a grinding process and it wouldn't be easy. It cannot be treated like a lottery where a single...
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    Giving up on my dream of trading for a living

    An excerpt from Chapter V of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. "And right here let me say one thing: After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my...
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    How can you truly tell a company is buying back their shares??

    Share buyback impacts outstanding shares. Stock Buybacks: Benefits of Share Repurchases (investopedia.com) These 15 companies do share buyback.
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    Philosophical Considerations

    That's because they need you more. But once they do not need you.... ????
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    Giving up on my dream of trading for a living

    I started in 2008 and my thought of trading that it should be easy and some formula should be able to take care of it and make a decent living. I soon realized that it's a lot harder than earning a salary. I switched on the capital preservation mode and learned to be patient. I began to focus on...
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    Open Source Trading Automation Frameworks?

    Instead of open source and having to deal unknown bugs, why not make use of some commercial charting software. For example Ninjatrader support C# for its automation script. By the way, the free version does support live trading. Personally, I am using Amibroker. It has customized automation...
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    The mental factor

    I use subliminal message with stock trading affirmations. Can google for these affirmations. Use Audacity to compile a 30 minutes audio clip. Use a whale calling or wave sound and insert the messages at specific interval. Lower the message until one can barely hear them. Once awhile just listen...
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    database

    Since you need historical intraday or tick data, take a look at iqfeed, firstrate data or tiingo. Yahoo finance provides free daily data. You may want to consider this for your initial system testing.
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    Intel a buy?

    INTC is behind TSMC in wafer fab technology i.e. TSMC already in mass production 5nm node and working on its 3nm node. In processor, INTC is trading blow with AMD. INTC's GPU is at least 1 generation behind AMD and NVDA. The chart is not showing uptrend.
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    Trading is an art form and its also intuitive

    This will definitely relieve the pressure of making profit in every trade. :thumbsup:
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    Bad Economics: College degree’s & Income inequality

    The main purpose of a college degree is to learn the process of higher learning. In that period of 3 - 4 years, one is to have the learning process and make it part of the habit. With the right attitude and mindset, our knowledge will propel us forward. Of course, those with the right aptitude...
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    TA vs FA

    I look at the 13F-HR report that hedge funds file to SEC quarterly, most charts show such pattern. This led me to think that charts can be produced by them instead of the market.
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    TA vs FA

    The market is a discounting mechanism and it has priced in all the information that is available. Fundamental information is generally lagging i.e. reported quarterly. Often times, growth stocks are often with no fundamental and mainly based on analyst expectation and company forecast. Price...
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    Do You Actually Enjoy Trading?

    We should be happy with what we are doing. Trading is more challenging than many other jobs. Trading is just another job. As with any job, we need the habit and mindset to be successful. If have watched the Winning Methods of the Market Wizards by Jack Schwagger, there is no one method in order...
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