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Easy, your balance re Jack is admirable, but I submit that he DOES need you to defend him. He desperately needs an amanuensis, a Bosworth if you will, and always has. In his writings he comes across as an idiot savant. He is only comprehensible through a herculean effort to form a gestalt from...

I believe you mean Connie. Although they both apparently like horses and both are dyed blondes. I would take Linda, however, as I can understand what she writes. Connie, it would seem, is merely a connie artist.

Nononesense, kindly leave your negativity at the door! I have been dashing hither and yon this last week trying to trace Grob109 from one abandoned thread to the next. It never occurred to me to look in this one, because my old eyes kept misreading the thread title as "The UNconscious Mind". No...

KIndly do not make fun of what you don't understand. I calculate the angular position of Jupiter relative to the sun with 32 bit double precision for my sunspot predictions.

Let's see now. For the vast majority of issues, that would be an accuracy better than a tick or the spread? Guess you could use it on Berkshire Hathaway, though.

Scotch, this has devolved into a Grob109 thread, and I am just doing my part to support that by mentioning risk. My reading of him is that he is building up certainty and reducing risk, in spite of his abhorrence of system trading words like expectation. His claim of being able to exit a bad...

In the case of bracket entries, let me add that I think it is far superior to try to predict which direction the BO will occur and to take the entry inside the consolidation at the maximum contrary move before the BO, or during a false BO. That prediction also offers the lowest risk entry if you...

Easy, you make several interesting non-Jackean points. Isn't this strange, reminds one of Protestants and Catholics. Anyway, thanks for posting, didn't mean to pry, just looking for generalities. I think that part of what hooks people on Jack is his unconventional terminology and his colorful...

Easy, no, man! I am serious. I use Jack's idea of categorizing the volume range. But not in the way he does. I run a moderately slow infinite impulse response filter on one minute NQ volume, and take a nap (or worse) when it drops below 300 cars per minute. Jack told me, or one of me, somewhere...

Syrre, I was writing in the context of trading NQ, where I anticipate a ten tick move and am thrilled to get 4 or 5 out of it with the methods I use. Probably what I do has little relevance to ES. You are the expert, kindly carry on. Regards, Al.

Stephen, thanks. The market order trading triggers I use mostly do not predict a move before it happens. They trigger after about 2 ticks of move. So such methods miss 2 ticks of a move on the entry, 2 ticks on the exit, and 1 or 2 ticks due to where the bid and ask are relative to the last...

Stephenszpak, I would first ask what entry and exit methods you would desire to use to trade such moves. Or is that the real question you have? Using market orders? And are you finding value in using a one period ma of the close? Regards, Al.

Easyrider, a candidate proof of that is that every thread where Grob109 posts receives high traffic in both other posters and in views. Every such thread becomes a Jack thread. And over time, the number of his critics diminishes. Or they become converts. Or possibly they just weary of reciting...

Jack, I am struck speechless by your unaccustomed loquacity. Pray do continue. Regards, Al. (But if you need a kickstart, I reiterate that the way to approach the markets is to try to understand seemingly anomalous behaviors, then figure out how to exploit them. An example from my stock...

Jack. Seriously, I am happy that my brief comments inspired you to share more of your personal and trading philosophies here. It was great reading. I am sorry to hear about your physical limitations. My own fingers are stiffening from so much diddling. And you are very kind to pity my own...

Again, Fred: "...certainties, where none exist..." Let us speak of certainties, and their flavors. Grob109 promotes bracketed breakouts of ES intraday. It is a certainty (barring the end of the world, or at least of New York) that price eventually will break out of a two tick infinitesimal...

Fred, to quote you: "What i do have is an idea that probability of my thing hapening is in my favor. it may happen, it may not. i dont care, because i know in the long term, it will go my way more often than not." IMO a probabilistic decision is a prediction. You are predicting that the...

What? You think they're in business to give you their money?

Grob109, now we are on epistemological grounds. It is truly amazing that you can get inside my head and read my mind at such a remove. In rebuttal of your cogently argued post, which I very much enjoyed reading, let us consider an example where you make a prediction. It is the session...

Icarus, there runs throughout Grob109's ouevre a general illogic which I find maddening. When in the past he has attempted to codify his methods, those descriptions have been deeply flawed. The so-called "Jokari" matrix was one of the worst examples. His descriptions of the behavior of volume at...