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    conspiracy theories

    we'll see!:)
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    Know how to program, don't know how to trade. Where do I begin?

    (-> to threadstarter) get yourself a great book: "New trading systems and methods", from Perry kaufman you'll thank me later
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    Prominent ICU Doctor: H1N1 influenza "most frightening thing I've seen in my career"

    This doctors basically says that the number of relatively young patients waiting in line in hospitals is frightening, and not that the virus in general is
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    Drawing trendlines, opposite theories?

    guys, thx for your inputs. Both methods can incorporate volumes in the analysis process. I can not emphasize enough on the fact each metods will give VERY different trendlines, resulting in very different expected S/R zones. One must be wrong.
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    Using history is bunk

    In science (Chartism is not a science), stats and maths, history repeats itself 100% of the time.
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    Drawing trendlines, opposite theories?

    Hello everyone, Many of you have probably noticed it, there seem to be two major ways of drawing trendlines in the technical analyst community: 1) The "re-drawers": The re-drawers trace a new line joining their initial point to any new high/low that has just formed. As a result, they...
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    which market to trade... help a new guy out

    Agree. then, quit forex and move on to NQ or ER2 futures
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    any scalpers?

    in the banking world, scalping still means smthg like "capturing the smallest increment (1tick) by reading the orderflow"
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    93 year old trader

    ;-)
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    latest P.kaufman book, any good?

    yes, too bad he doesn't promote his work as good as A.Elder for example. He has more to offer.
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    latest P.kaufman book, any good?

    Hey guys, I just noticed that perry kaufman wrote a third book, released in 2003 (very strange that I missed that all these years :confused: ). "A short course to technical trading", Wiley. I's obviously a book for beginners. Might be a damn good one if it has the Kaufman touch. I find...
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    how come the europeans never invent anything?

    Well, everything is different, it's not better or worse: I'm a Belgian living in Brussels, which is a good average of the EU life in general. The average employee makes 4000 gross a month, 50% of which desappears in taxes. This includes legal pension scheme. 2000euros are available for...
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    Automated trading for those without a programming background?

    www.sirtrade.com for the wealthy ones...
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    Anyone made money using Elliott Waves ?

    I never met someone who profitably trades with EW only. However, I met some successful traders using them as part of their analysis. Still, I haven't seen anything convincing yet. Alex
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    13 pages?! Jezus, if only I had that much success with girls.
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    Everyone, Thanks for your inputs. First of all, on a grammatical note (way too few grammar issues on ET if you ask me), I must say that my use of the term "angry" was not appropriate. "Tired of"/"fed up with" would have been more accurate. Also, forgive the overal poor quality of my...
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    $73,000 for a 1 night stay in hospital because of a snake bite

    Would have cost about 300 usd in Belgium. Drawback? We pay 50% tax on our incomes. No typo, no BS here, 48% on average.
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    Redneck, Thanks for your reaction, and we most certainly respect your opinion as well. Could I ask you to tell where you stopped agreeing with me in my initial post? (put differently, where do you think my reasonning is flawed?) thx, Alex
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    indeed nutmeg :)
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    thanks for your interesting input. Well, I honestly understand that people find it difficult to find an efficient method/strat/system. This is everwhelmingly difficult and competitive. Furthermore, these animals (markets), they keep evolving all the time! Really a competitive job...
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