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Chapter 8. The Best Are Like Water The best are like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete with them. It flows to the lowest level. In this it comes near to the Way. In their dwellings, they love the earth. In their hearts, they love what is profound. In their...

I am using TradeStation as my broker for my automated trades. I have recently put in a new cable modem and unplugged for a good ten minutes after an order has entered. Looks like the TradeStation does match the order correctly once the network is reconnected. Unfortunately you would have to...

Gil Blake interviewed by Jack Schwager in "The New Market Wizards": "My approach is to confront losses even before they materialize. I rehearse the process of losing. Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize...

maxpi, can you explain please? Personally I've found a few things so far and I am sure more to come: 1) Limit order unfilled (actions to be customized in the Automation tab when you format your strategy...) 2) Strategy Automation Warning dialog... You can run a script to close it and you...

Chapter 7. Enduring "Heaven is eternal, and the earth is very old. They can be eternal and long lasting, because they do not exist for themselves, and for this reason can long endure. Therefore the wise put themselves last, but find themselves foremost. They are indifferent to...

I have mirrored this thread on the other board for disccussion (where dbphoenix hangs out). The following is the crap I posted when the subject of unconscious is brought up: I used to be a discretionary trader using technical setups and I do think there is some unconscious business I have to...

I think the postings may introduce more fixations in your trading and when things fail to unfold as expected (fixation), more stress will be on you. You might want to post just the monthly statement or something with a longer perspective. I don't think it is realistic to think that one will...

I happen to come across this excerpt from William Eckhardt interviewed by Jack Schwager in "The New Market Wizards" on page 115. He is talking about the thing I am trying to do in my own trading. I don't want to take it out of context so I include the bulk of it: I think this is well said not...

Chapter 6. The Mystical Female "The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the mystical female. The door of the mystical female is the root of heaven and earth. It seems to be continuously within us. Use it, and it will never fail." This chapter is particularly cryptic. I...

Three years of data?? might not be enough... You can translate 10 YM point for about 1 ES point and just multiply the price reference with a ratio within your system and see if it works for ES. They should be highly correlated. Automated trading has its own challenges... I am still...

Hi Brook, There is not a lot of data on Dow Emini... You might want to test your system on the ES for about 10-to-1 point factor. I either introspect on my internal feelings as an exercise or just read a book and peek at the screen once in a while. I consider the boredom a good sign.

Are you a discretionary trader taking system signals? Or a Freudian slip?

Tom Baldwin interviewed by Jack Schwager in Market Wizards: "The way I trade is: Live by the sword, die by the sword."

I think S. Becker's translation is continued to be a little better... Here the "straw dog" (a sacrificial animal image) is translated as sacrificial objects. Chapter 5. Emptiness and the Center "Nature is not humane. It treats all things like sacrificial objects. The wise are not...

I noticed some content is missing in the translation I used so I settle with S. Becker's translation for Chapter 4... don't want to spend too much time looking... Here is the link to S. Becker's translation: http://www.edepot.com/tao10.html Chapter 4. The Infinite Way (Dao) "The Way...

This is turning into a "Kama Sutra and Trading" thread...

Is your client really that good looking? :D What chapter is this quote on? You like brain-twister and "difficulty", don't you?

Tom Baldwin interviewed by Jack Schwager in Market Wizard: "Right. I bet most people are probably ahead after their first five trades. They think, 'This is great, like free money.' But then they forget the reason they made money on their early trades was because they waited a long time. They...

If you read between the lines, it's pretty sad...

I like the fortune cookie crap... Isn't that this whole thread based on? BTW, do you know that fortune cookie is an American invention and you would not found them in Asia? http://www.fortunecookie.demon.co.uk/fhistory.html Hmm... just as I suspected it.