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Brandon, Have you ever measured the performance of your "intraday gap-breakouts" by what type of gap it was in the bigger picture? I suspect that intraday breakouts off a gap would be much stronger on markets that are experiencing "break away" gaps vs. an "exhaustion" or "continuation" gap...

FWIW, I have truly enjoyed reading these new rants of yours WDgann. PEACE and good speculation...

Good post Vienna, Speaking from experience, I have traded styles/methods that have produced under a 40% hit-rate that were very successful over a long-run of trials. At the risk of sounding like a walking cliche, the key is truly being really right when you find your position is in harmony...

You can lose the wieght Don, its the face I'd be more concerned with...

Mine was fine...

LOL :p

You'll have to forgive, things trigger pretty slowly in my dumpster of a brain sometimes... PEACE and good-speculation...

Brother Surf, So your posts were in jest? They better have been or I will have to school you on why our boy Buffet is one sharp old geezer. BTW I have over 50billion couter-arguments to throw at you, so you better concede now! :mad: PEACE and good-specul8tion brother Surf...

Brother Surf, Out of nearly 3,000 posts -- that is by far the most ridiculous one you have ever made... I suppose you are allowed a few though, here and there... Just make sure not to make a habit of this! PEACE and good-specul8tion...

If I had to do it all over again -- I would not change a thing. What I know came through action and I would not have it anyother way; for "wisdom/knowledge" through action is the only real kind I know of in this game... Perhaps if there was one thing I know now that I wish I knew then - it...

I do not have a quick fix for you, but only a few comments... 1) It is not a matter of "controlling" your demons. First go to the source, you have to look deep inside yourself and determine what is perpetuating these demons. They do not exist outside of yourself. If you can find the root, you...

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DB, Flip the script. It works out the same as when you win on the first trade -- your risking more on the next. Over the long run they will flatten out me thinks, but im not an expert in the field a 'matamatix'... Sub, What happens to your zero expectancy if the highly unlikey event of...

Livermore set-up trusts for his wife and children in the early 20's. Trusts that were so tight, that neither he, nor his wife/children, would ever be able to penetrate them. PEACE and good-speculation...

Well DB seems to think so also, so you are not alone :) But for what its worth, I wasn't giving advice to anyone, just transfering my own truth with the game. PEACE and good-speculation...

Good enough :) PEACE and good-speculating...

I don't know why you keep coming back at me so aggressively DB. I stated what I felt to be my experience with the game, nothing more and nothing less. If someone chooses to take my words to heart, then thats on them. If I am full of shit, like you believe I am and the person takes my advice...

Perhaps it is nonsense, but then again, if the way did not sound like nonsense to the majority then it simply could not be the way. In a game where 90% lose, I take it as a compliment to be laughed at. I wonder how long it would take pepetual losers like traderkay and gordon gekko to make a few...

Most of his blow-outs had little to do with what we would call gambiling. He most definately could have used less aggressive position sizes though :) Make no mistake about it though, blowouts or not, the man was the essence of what speculation is... PEACE and good-speculation...

DB, Your above post serves only to accentuate the point I was trying to make by saying paper trading is an excercise in futility. This is a game of losing, not winning. Any monkey can learn how to make money in this game, its really not that difficult at all. Its learning how to lose that...