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Thanks Lawrence, I will use your advice.

How can I tell my system to not take repeated signals (ma crossovers) happening in both directions at a resistance/support level, in a range like the one shown in the picture? I would like to tell the system: "choose a direction, and stay with it until the support/resistance that caused a...

As far back as possible. I have it back to 2001 right now. I'd like to have it beginning in 1996.

It's very buggy, but free (Wall Street Analyzer): http://www.lathuy.com/

I am looking for historical data of the past 5 years for the put/call ratio of the CBOE, in a format compatible with Tradestation. I could not find it on Yahoo!, nor on CBOE's website.

I have thought about it for a while, because I have the same problem, and essentially the possible causes are these 3: 1. You blow stops after a series of successes because the more you are right the less you think you can be wrong in the future, so your confidence makes you think, when the...

You do know it, you just need to pay attention. You knew it with Blix, and you know it when Greenspan has to announce on whether or not there's a rate cut. There are many sites that have a list of the important economic briefings, like: http://biz.yahoo.com/c/ec/200308.html But my point...

I am looking for a site where I can find the single most important briefing of the week, such as last Friday's Blix briefing, which was able to hold the markets in a range for the few days preceding it, and then released them all of a sudden at 10.30 AM, when Blix started speaking. I...

Well, then I hope my edge will become like yours, systematic and automatic. I am not there yet. I don't even have an edge, maybe. But maybe to get there, you need to have a perfect balance in your life, and mind, and trading. What I meant to say was this: if you are a cab driver, just...

I feel that it's comfortable to think that we'll find a market that suits our personality the way it is, but it might also be the case that we have to change our personality to be successful at trading. And if we can't, then we won't be successful. For example, I used to think that it was...

I agree with the concept of seeing it in terms of probability, and in terms of a bet, but not with the idea that you have a 50% chance of being right. You have a very high probability that it will go in your direction when you make the trade (that's why you make the trade), and a smaller...

Then you don't use moving averages for your entries. If you use ma for example for an intraday trade, you enter the trade when it gets crossed one way, and exit when the ma gets crossed the opposite way by the index. Once you find a good moving average, and enter/exit when it tells you to...

In order to be profitable, you have to pick the best possible trades, but you also have to make sure you don't lose everything on those "few" trades that prove to be wrong. That's why you need the stoploss. The stoploss implies that after all your thinking before starting a trade, when you...

You can make money both in a trend and in a trading range, but with different methods. A trading range is price bouncing up and down between support and resistance, so you need to go long when it bounces on support, and go short when it bounces on resistance. A trend is price breaking...

Yes, Optional, I agree with what you said, but I was thinking of a different aspect of games and sports. Let me put it this way: if you had fun playing soccer, would you still play another team, if you knew you are likely to lose? Yes. Well, with trading is different. The first objective is to...

Trading should not be a game, a passion, or a hobby. You should only be trading to make money. It's more fun, and less dangerous, to play other games.

A trend is higher (or lower) highs and lows, appearing on a daily candlesticks chart. If you don't have that, you probably have a trading range. You trade a trend by entering a trade when prices break a resistance or a support, and using a ma crossover based on daily closes as a signal. If...

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I know this, because I have been through it. When someone brags about losing money, it means he's not concerned about it. You have the right risk control only when you are afraid of losing money as you'd be afraid of getting beaten up. GG, do you feel pain when you lose money? No, you don't...

He is a "Forum Wizard". He has become a star in this forum and his threads are big hits. He reminded me of the trader described by Ed Seykota. If he was really really concerned about losing money would he write poems about it? He wants to make money, but not bad enough. The day he'll...